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The Jackobins: Nightfire – single review
The Jackobins Nightfire (self release) 5 May 2017 The Jackobins are a Liverpool band who have a steadily rising fan base across the country and are seeing sold-out shows on their current tour. With...
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Drunken Master – film review
Drunken Master (1978) Director: Yuen Woo-ping Cast: Jackie Chan, Yuen Siu-tien, Hwang Jang-lee Runtime: 111 minutes Format: Dual-Format Subtitles: English (optional) Out: 24.04.2017 9/10 Jamie Havlin...
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new video for ‘Sleeping’– the new single from The Hurt
The video for the fine new single from The Hurt – ‘Sleeping’ has just been released, a video as dramatic and beautiful as the tune itself its the perfect opener to ex Paris Angels front man Rikki...
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Cubanate ‘Brutalism’ album review
Cubanate ‘Brutalism’ (Armalyte Industries) CD | DL Rel Date: 5th May 2017 ‘Brutalism’ marks the welcome return of Cubanate; the UK techno/industrial band who burst out of the London underground in...
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Hit The North – festival review
Hit The North Various venues, Newcastle 28th April 2017 The first Hit The North festival took over the majority of Newcastle’s finest venues, with an exceptionally diverse line up it was a sure fire...
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Cobby & Litten: RIME EP reviewed and short video-documentary
EP Review Cobby & Litten: RIME EP (Declasse) Out now DL only Cobby & Littens My People Come From the Sea was one Louder Than War writers 2016 ‘Album of The Year’. This wouldn’t be unusual...
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the Songwriting Genius of Peter Perrett … Part Two
the Songwriting Genius of Peter Perrett … Part Two With his first ever solo album, ‘How the West Was Won’ due for release on Domino Recordings at the end of June, long-time Perrett fan, Ged Babey,...
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John Grant, Satellites: London, Union Chapel – live review
John Grant|Satellites Union Chapel 2 May 2017 “A Kidney For Oleg”, a special and intimate charity gig headlined by John Grant with support from Satellites. Naomi Dryden-Smith went to check it out....
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Nirvana (UK): Local Anaesthetic, Songs Of Love And Praise – Album Reviews
Nirvana (UK): Local Anaesthetic, Songs Of Love And Praise Esoteric CD/DL Released 26th May 2017 First time reissues for both these late-period albums by the British 60s version of Nirvana…..LTW’s Ian...
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Einstürzende Neubauten: Boiler Shop, Newcastle – live review
Einstürzende Neubauten Boiler Shop, Newcastle 5th May 2017 A beguiling and brilliant set from German Industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten in a venue which couldn’t have been anymore suited to...
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Live At Leeds 2017 – festival review
Live At Leeds Various Venues, Leeds 29th April 2017 Another exceptional day at Live At Leeds discovering some of the finest new acts around as well as catching up with a bunch of old favourites. Live...
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Bring The Drones ‘Ignorance Paradise’– album review
Bring The Drones – Ignorance Paradise (Kibou Records/Phobia Records) LP Released 5 May 2017 An international collective pull together a diverse range of songs rotating around a fine purveyor of...
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Vieux Farka Toure: Samba – album review
Vieux Farka Toure – Samba (Six Degrees Records) CD / DL 12 May 2017 7.5 / 10 Malian songwriter and bandleader release his new album. Louder Than War’ Paul Scott-Bates reviews. Beginning an album with a...
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Erasure: World Be Gone – album review
Erasure – World Be Gone (Mute Records) Vinyl / CD / Cassette / DL 19 May 2017 8.5 / 10 Synth pop duo release their seventeenth album. Louder Than War’ Paul Scott-Bates reviews. Any pop purist from the...
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Correlations: You Don’t Talk For Me – EP Review
Correlations: You Don’t Talk For Me (World of Echo) Cassette/DL Available Now! 7/10 Following on from their acclaimed debut album Correlations release a brand new four-track EP. Simon Tucker reviews....
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Doctors Of Madness – Perfect Past – Album Review
Doctors Of Madness – Perfect Past: The Complete Doctors Of Madness RPM 3CD/DL Released 8th May 2017 Thorough anthology of the recording career of Proto-Punk legends the Doctors Of Madness, with many...
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999 / 5 Go Mad: the Rifle Club, Portsmouth (Live Review) and Bash the Bishop...
Live Review 999 / 5 Go Mad : the Rifle Club, Portsmouth 5/5/2017 and…… Bash the Bishop 4 (preview) 27th-28th May 2017 Forty Years On from 1977 and (Old School) Punk’s still not dead -it lives on...
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GALLOPS: Bronze Mystic – Album review
GALLOPS: Bronze Mystic Blood and Biscuits DL/vinyl available now 7/10 Louder than War’s Ioan Humphreys gets reacquainted with a newly rejuvenated GALLOPS Written over an 18 month period and recorded...
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Stag and Dagger 2017: Sauchiehall Street Venues, Glasgow – live review
Stag and Dagger 2017, Glasgow 30/04/2017 Various Venues LTW sent Roxy Gillespie to see what Glasgow festival Stag and Dagger 2017 had to offer. Here is what she found. Sauchiehall Street runs like a...
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Adam Ant : Manchester Bridgewater Hall : May 2017 : Live Review
Adam Ant Manchester Bridgewater Hall May 2017 Live Review It’s the gathering of the Ant clans – the old punks from the post punk wars, the grown up eighties pop kids, the curious and the curiosities...
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