(((O))) Tag: Alpha Male Tea Party
STRANGEFORMS FEST will be 10 this spring. That, I think, deserves some kind of retrospective thingy. A look back, if you will. I have no idea whether or not anybody else is going to do it but somebody has to, even if that somebody is me. So, yeah, here it is.
Alpha Male Tea Party have used the pain and strong emotions they undoubtedly felt and ran with their emotions to create something that is familiar but different. Heavier than their previous work but also creative musically, mature and well-executed.
“Fun” is not often the first word that springs to mind when speaking of instrumental post-rock music. In a genre defined by self-seriousness, A Burial At Sea are the outsiders of the outsiders. The usual rock ‘n’ roll setup of guitar, bass, drum …
ArcTanGent 2018 – Thursday Highlights with Cassels, Boss Keloid, Body Hound, Alpha Male Tea Party, Gulfer, Ohhms, Svalbard, People Like Milk Products, Rolo Tomassi, Foxing, Jamie Lenman, Tangled Hair and And So I Watch You From AfarArcTanGent Festival, …
Ttng brought a wonderful weekend of music to a close. I feel like I’ve possibly seen the band more times than my own reflection in a mirror but have always enjoyed myself thoroughly. . .
Many of our regular readers will know Ben Forrester from his work with Bad Grammar and, more recently, with math rock ‘supergroup’ Gug; alongside Dan from Cleft and Tom from Alpha Male Tea Party. Happy Medium is his third EP under the Peaks monike …
Rare Moves is, in some respects, exactly what you’d expect from the drummer of one of the most formidable acts in this genre. In other respects, it is surprisingly refreshing and sprinkled with moments of clarity amongst the madness.
ArcTanGent #5 – Friday Highlights – Gilmore Trail, Britney, Hikes, IToldYouIWouldEatYou, Alpha Male Tea Party, Hemelbestormer, Nitkowski, Stearica, Ohhms, Wot Gorilla?, A-Tota-So, Listener, Hark, Frontierer, Bossk, The Evil Usses, God Is An Astronaut, …
ArcTanGent #5 – Alpha Male Tea PartyArcTanGent, Arc Stage, Bristol, 18.08.2017 Photos by Ed Sprake
Alpha Male Tea Party ‘Health’ Album Launchwith Body HoundBuyers Club, Liverpool, 23.06.2017 Photos by Ed Sprake Please do not use the photos without the photographer’s permission.
Those generous Alpha Male Tea Party fans must be simmering in their own ecstasy oozings right about now. Their various donations have covered the costs of the band’s retreat to the Oxfordshire countryside to unload about 3 years’ worth of brain juice in the form of 44 minutes of enough skull-rattling, aural debauchery to drown out the noise of Theresa May’s musket laying waste to a skulk of foxes outside the studio window.
Jody Dunstan saw Cleft play one of their last ever gigs in Manchester last month, with support coming from Alpha Male Tea Party and Body hound. “Although a genre that will never make the mainstream it is good to see so many people crammed into a small space enjoying the evening. “
Cleft, Alpha Male Tea Party, Body Hound The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 25.07.2016 Photos by Ed Sprake
You Slut!, Alpha Male Tea Party, Trojan Horse, Piles of Clothes The Star and Garter, Manchester, 20.04.2016 Photos by Ed Sprake
ArcTanGent 2015: Thursday – Yohkai stage HighlightsArcTanGent Festival 2015 Photos by Magda Wrzeszcz and Ed Sprake (((O))) ON THE WEB Facebook Twitter Instagram (((O))) SUPPORT THE SITE! Regular visitor? Please consider a small subscription to help us …
According to the sign at the gate there are no drugs at ArcTanGent. That being said, I am about to disclose a whirlwind of ineffably spectacular and ebullient events the likes of which will entice you to said festival with a narcotic fervour. I came to ArcTanGent as the blank canvas of this writing body and left a part of a greater work. Here I met the team of some of the most delightful misfits you will ever come across, here I found a place where I felt comfortable in my own skin. By Chad Murray
Mutiny On The Bounty, Alpha Male Tea Party, Dialects, Bearfoot Beware The Ruby Lounge, Manchester, 6.05.2015 Photos by Ed Sprake Bearfoot Beware at Ruby Lounge, Manchester, 06 May 2015 Bearfoot Beware at Ruby Lounge, Manchester, 06 May 2015 Bearfoot Be …
A top-drawer quality night of music, a receptive, if small, crowd in a small, friendly environment. A few bands tonight will for sure have gained a few new fans. By Jody Dunstan & Gavin Davison
Trojan Horse – World Turned Upside Down Launch Party with Flesh, Cleft and Alpha Male Tea Party Kraak Gallery Manchester, 13.12.2014 Photos by Ed Sprake
2014 was the year Arctangent grew up to be a proper festival. Last year was great but it’s easy to be a great festival in the blazing sunshine. The real test of a festival is whether it can stay great when the rain comes down and come down it did, especially the Friday night providing a suitably apocalyptic backdrop for the dark riffage of Russian Circles, yet Arctangent coped with it without missing a 13/4 beat. By Dan Salter
