King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Bristol Beacon – May

Sometimes it’s just best to let music take you wherever it fancies. Six-piece, Australian psych adventurers, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, seem to have a passport that allows them to venture to all parts and, if tonight at Bristol Beacon is anything to go by, they intend to take as many as they possibly can with them.Continue reading “King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Bristol Beacon – May”

Temples – The Fleece – September

Tonight, Temples were Mercury. They were quicksilver. Tonight, Temples were gender-fluid, genre-fluid, generation-fluid. Tonight, Temples were 60s psych and 80s glisten, they were disco, they were mod, they were blokey chat and ethereal voices, they were heavy as hell and sunlight soft, they were drop-dead cool and not cool at all, they were everything toContinue reading “Temples – The Fleece – September”

Goat – SWX – April 2023

In Cookie Mueller’s brilliant book of essays about hanging out with John Waters and various nutcases in Baltimore, she constantly mentions a set of places. These are places that will survive the collapse of civilisation as we know it. They are the convergence of ley lines, special places. Special places if you are oddly unhingedContinue reading “Goat – SWX – April 2023”