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Review: Apocalipstick Blues

Artist: Efa Supertramp
 Apocalipstick Blues
 Label: Afiach
 Release Date: 2nd October 2020
 Website: www.efasupertramp.co.uk Welsh solo acoustic-punk Efa Supertramp returns with Apocalipstick Blues, the long-awaited follow up to her 2015 debut Rhyddid yw y Freuddwyd (Freedom is the dream). This album plays like an audio journal of autonomous ideologies from a well-travelled sage. Effortlessly swaying

Left musical wave defies the far-right and Brexit

Having worked around the music industry for many years, mainly as an organiser of benefit gigs and now running an online platform, I can say that artists are rightly fearful about what may soon occur. Deal or no deal. Since one of their income sources (actual record sales) disappeared into cyberspace they’ve pretty much relied

The cringeworthy naivety of Nick Cave

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Eagle Spits Interview

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Interview with The Restarts

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From Tomorrow and Beyond: An Interview with The Oscillation

Investigating the various bands at this year’s Camden Crawl I came across ”The Oscillation’ a band who have had various incarnations and at present consists of Tom Relleen, Valentina Magaletti and founder member Demian Castellanos.  After listening to a couple of tracks I visited their website which  comments, ‘The Oscillation’s third album “From Tomorrow” is