Other Side Psych Weekender

Annu­al psych week­ender by Oth­er Side Pro­mo­tions takes place at The Stron­groom Bar, Shored­itch, on 19th and 20th Sep­tem­ber with Kun­gens Man, The Jan­i­tors and Ver­stark­er on Fri­day. On Sat­ur­day it’s Fire­friend, Dead Sea Apes, Kom­by­nat Robot­ron, Bike, Parasta­t­ic, Amon Acid and Auto­haus. Live visu­als by Dwave­hed. Tyne­side band Parasta­t­ic played in Feb­ru­ary, show­cas­ing their…

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Terry Bickers and The Inner Spiral gigs and new music

Ter­ry Bick­ers, leg­endary founder mem­ber and gui­tarist of House of Love fame has announced three inti­mate shows and there’s new music – under wraps for now – to come too. The orig­i­nal band’s phe­nom­e­nal first album House of Love in 1990 still sounds as fresh now as it did on its release – tracks like Shine…

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Aftertouch: magical new album from Absolutely Free

Emerg­ing from a misty and dreamy land­scape comes the sec­ond album from Cana­di­an out­fit Absolute­ly Free called After­touch, released Sep­tem­ber 24 on Boiled Records. The band caught my atten­tion ear­li­er in the year with the thought-pro­­vok­ing sin­gle How to Paint Clouds – the sec­ond track on this new release. Absolute­ly Free, com­pris­ing the core trio…

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