Friday, 6 March 2020
Monday, 10 June 2019
WEIRD WALK
Mark is ridiculously happy to have some poems featured in the beautiful first issue of new zine Weird Walk. Walk Weird here:
Monday, 3 December 2018
STUART MACONIE'S FREAK ZONE
A huge THANK YOU! to Stuart Maconie for playing Extra Pint on his show. We are ludicrously happy about it!
You can check it out HERE!
Monday, 24 September 2018
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Sunday, 16 October 2016
Monday, 1 February 2016
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Monday, 5 January 2015
CASSETTE GODS REVIEW
Another review of BE KIND all the way from Massachusetts! CASSETTE GODS page HERE.
A great end of the summer release ... eclectic and bittersweet played at the tempo of jaded determination. It's an intimate release and one that can be melancholy in tone, but its overall effect is one of satisfaction.
-- Jack Turnbull
THANK YOU C.G!
MK
Guitar centered freak folk mind expansion played with a refreshing youthful sincerity. The guitarist's chops are not of the degree of buckethead, but there is a variety of genre that is impressive. The tone of the guitar goes from reverb drenched noise echo to quick release acoustic twang. The Dick Dale speed picking gets gnarly ala MY BLOODY VALENTINE special effect sonic blast as the structure remains pop, almost to the degree of twee. Television hiss snow accompanies distortion power chords and the vocals croon like Echo & the Bunnymen, but the overall attempt is far more spare and DIY. Great vocal harmonies and lots of force in the voice. A song like Ghost Town brings it down a knock, hitting Nick Drake territory, but slightly more droned, with perhaps an over reliance on chords.
A great end of the summer release ... eclectic and bittersweet played at the tempo of jaded determination. It's an intimate release and one that can be melancholy in tone, but its overall effect is one of satisfaction.
-- Jack Turnbull
THANK YOU C.G!
MK
Monday, 15 September 2014
TOM RAVENSCROFT AND 6MUSIC RECOMMENDS
Monday, 25 August 2014
Saturday, 23 August 2014
TINY MIX TAPES REVIEW
Woke up yesterday to a great surprise. A wonderful review of Be Kind on Tiny Mixtapes. Over the freakin' moon. Click HERE to read it in its natural habitat, or just scroll below... Thanks TMT! MK
DoubleDotDash might be the most wildly inconsistent, content-wise, cassette label out there, but it also might be the most consistently rewarding. The label that brought you that INSANE Blackhoods tape as well as worthwhile releases from Workin Man Noise Unit and Personnel shifts gears yet again to bring you Wild Island’s Be Kind, an Amen Dunes-ish exodus into solo-songwriter territory that makes more sense emanating from a cave than the speakers of a record room. The fidelity of this release is perfect for the tape medium, as it hisses a bit, and sounds like the wind is blowing throughout, yet all the little accents Knight tosses in get fully fleshed out. These are songs you can reminisce to, or sit by a creek and space-out to on headphones, or watch the drifting clouds to, or fall in love to; it all makes sense as Knight constantly offers the listener fresh reasons to spelunk further down his hollow hole. The flip even provides some blurry, heavier instrumentals if you’re looking for something a little more electric (Remember, I said IF: I actually prefer the mellower material.), not to mention a hulking bed of noise we heard less of on Side A. All in a days work for Knight and, by extension, DDD.
DoubleDotDash might be the most wildly inconsistent, content-wise, cassette label out there, but it also might be the most consistently rewarding. The label that brought you that INSANE Blackhoods tape as well as worthwhile releases from Workin Man Noise Unit and Personnel shifts gears yet again to bring you Wild Island’s Be Kind, an Amen Dunes-ish exodus into solo-songwriter territory that makes more sense emanating from a cave than the speakers of a record room. The fidelity of this release is perfect for the tape medium, as it hisses a bit, and sounds like the wind is blowing throughout, yet all the little accents Knight tosses in get fully fleshed out. These are songs you can reminisce to, or sit by a creek and space-out to on headphones, or watch the drifting clouds to, or fall in love to; it all makes sense as Knight constantly offers the listener fresh reasons to spelunk further down his hollow hole. The flip even provides some blurry, heavier instrumentals if you’re looking for something a little more electric (Remember, I said IF: I actually prefer the mellower material.), not to mention a hulking bed of noise we heard less of on Side A. All in a days work for Knight and, by extension, DDD.
Friday, 1 August 2014
Mick Turner
Mick Turner is flat-out one of my favourite musicians. 'nuff said.
I am therefore happy as a pig in shit to be supporting him on 16th August.
He doesn't tour much, and he's coming all the way from Austrailia. To Reading. So don't mess about with this. Even if you've never listened to his music before this is not to be missed.
Bravo to South St for booking him up.
As for me, expect lots of new music and a new album, After Rain.
See you there,
MK. The Other Other W.I.
Tickets, info, etc: http://www.readingtownhall.co.uk/southstreet/event.asp?id=SX797A-A7824408
I am therefore happy as a pig in shit to be supporting him on 16th August.
He doesn't tour much, and he's coming all the way from Austrailia. To Reading. So don't mess about with this. Even if you've never listened to his music before this is not to be missed.
Bravo to South St for booking him up.
As for me, expect lots of new music and a new album, After Rain.
See you there,
MK. The Other Other W.I.
Tickets, info, etc: http://www.readingtownhall.co.uk/southstreet/event.asp?id=SX797A-A7824408
Sunday, 16 February 2014
wild island
my new album, Be Kind, can be streamed, downloaded and purchased on cassette (incl download) from DOUBLEDOTDASH!? here:
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