/Tuesday Ten /655 /Up the Beach
Back in the heat of summer, in early August, I asked about this subject. And while I plan upcoming /Tuesday Tens some months ahead nowadays, even I couldn’t have expected summer to effectively last into October.
Category: /Tuesday Ten
Now ten years old and counting, my regular series of Tuesday posts takes in new music and sometimes rather random categories.
/Tuesday Ten /654 /Tracks of the Month /Sep-26
I neglected to mention it last week, but the sudden death of Bruno Kramm of Das Ich after a gig in Spain was really quite shocking. Das Ich weren’t by any stretch a gateway band for me, although I did own a few records and had seen them live once, and they were a fascinating, […]
/Tuesday Ten /653 /Don’t Argue
By chance, today marks thirty years to the day since I started my side-line (it was never a career!) in writing about music. On 29-Sep 1996, I was on the guestlist for downset. at the LA2 in London, my first assignment on the music section of ROAR, the King’s College London student newspaper. I’d signed […]
/Tuesday Ten /652 /Do It
Another pair of related posts coming up to finish off September. Do, or don’t? Become a member! /amodelofcontrol.com now has a Patreon page, at this stage purely as a potential way of helping to cover the running costs of the site. There is absolutely no compulsion to do so: if you feel you can chuck […]
/Tuesday Ten /651 /No-One Else To Blame
I’ve often found further inspiration for posts in this series by looking at the flipside of a subject that I ask about, and this week is one of those. After all, if I ask about blame, why not ask about responsibility too?
/Tuesday Ten /650 /Blame, etc.
These days, it seems impossible to read a story in the news where there isn’t blame placed somewhere else – and it happens when people get caught out online, too.
/Tuesday Ten /649 /Tracks of the Month /Aug-26
Back to regular programming, then, now that this year’s Infest coverage is done and dusted.
/Tuesday Ten /648 /Memory of a Festival
This weekend, I will attend Infest for the twenty-sixth time (the twenty-fourth time in person, as well as two virtually). I’ve not missed an Infest since I began attending in 2000, and after writing about nineteen of them, the twentieth Infest that I’ll cover on /amodelofcontrol.com will be my last. I’ll still be attending Infest […]
/Tuesday Ten /647 /Party Hard
I got that bit closer to fifty over the weekend, as I turned forty-eight. It was a relatively low-key birthday this year, which rather suited me fine: but in past years, there have been some pretty epic parties to celebrate.
/Tuesday Ten /646 /Tracks of the Month /Jul-26
High summer is always a bit of a weird one for new releases: it’s the silly season while bands are playing festivals and travelling vast distances to do so, so new songs take the back burner a bit. But maybe it’s just me, but it seems the quietest it has been for new music in […]
/Tuesday Ten /645 /Clearest Blue
I conclude this run of posts on three colours with, of course, blue.
/Tuesday Ten /644 /The White Room
Following on from Red last week, we now move onto White.
/Tuesday Ten /643 /Seeing Red
Over the first weekend of July, the United States marked it’s Semiquincentennial – or 250th Anniversary since Independence. The celebrations of such have been rather muted, it seems, and perhaps with good reason with the current Administration, as it doesn’t really feel that the ideals that the USA is supposed to represent are being reflected […]
/Tuesday Ten /642 /Tracks of the Month /Jun-26
Another hot month, another ten tracks – including the 7,000th entry in this series.
/Tuesday Ten /641 /Any Colour As Long As It’s Black
“It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black“. Spın̈al Tap had a good laugh at the alternative and metal proclivity for the use of black, and just recently, the blackest black ever is used at the Hayward Gallery as part of the new Anish Kapoor exhibition.
/Tuesday Ten /640 /Two Different Ways
Sometimes, I suggest a subject and get buried in suggestions, and this week was one of those.
/Tuesday Ten /639 /YES NO
This week is – or is it? – about contradictions in song.
/Tuesday Ten /638 /He Said, She Said
This one kinda picks up where we left off two weeks ago – but with a bit of a different angle.
/Tuesday Ten /637 /Tracks of the Month /May-26
It has been a really busy few weeks of music round here, with no less than seven gigs in two weeks taking up a lot of my time – and some of them were a bit of a struggle in the intense heat in the south of England in the past week or so.
/Tuesday Ten /636 /Somebody Told Me
As we continue the journey to the end of this series in March next year, I seem to be picking up some of the harder subjects now, those that had less suggestions and are more difficult to build a post around.