Articles by Richard Collins
Anthony is a promoting god here in London town. This year saw the second Raw Power festival which was the most ridiculous event of all time, he’s very busy planning next year’s festival but we distracted him for a few minutes to find out what the fuck is happening… here’s the result.
Behind today’s door we have Gordon Watson. Gordon has been in around the London underground music scene for decades. Axe man for the incredible Terminal Cheesecake and front man for the ridiculous Luminous Bodies who have gained a reputation for being the most fun live band on the scene. Here’s what he makes of 2015.
Behind door number four of our fucked up advent calendar is Tanya Byrne from Bismuth and Nadir. Bismuth released a jaw dropping album entitled ‘Unavailing’ this year, here’s what she thinks about what’s going on around her.
In this edition, Rich chats to Wayne Adams, the man behind Bear Bites Horse Studios and can also be found rocking out in Shitwife, Death Pedals and Ladyscraper. Basically, he’s a DIY legend… here’s what he had to say!
Richard Collins has caught up with shit loads of our favourite people from across the scene and we’ll be publishing one every day until we run out… like a brutal advent calendar! Behind today’s door is Andy Smith from one of our favourite labels, Riot Season Records.
Richard Collins has caught up with shit loads of our favourite people from across the scene and we’ll be publishing one every day until we run out… like a brutal advent calendar! We kick off proceedings with Joe Thompson from undoubtedly one of our bands of the year, Hey Colossus. Enjoy!
This is essentially a band who’s been around for a while and given themselves time to write a great bunch of fucking tunes and deliver them in an exciting and refreshing way. – By Richard Collins
Richard Collins thought it was time to check in with Early Mammal and ask guitarist/vocalist Rob Herian and bassist Ben Tat what’s happening.
‘Big Lad’ will challenge most people, rock fans might find it too electronic, electronic fans might be put off with the crazy drum patterns. However, if you want to hear something exciting in 2015 then look no further. There’s nothing else that sounds anything like it and if there was a God they’d be massive and ‘Big Lad’ would be blasted in every student house party in the country. – By Richard Collins
This is a fun, catchy, heavy rock album with serious fucking muscle. Raw and chaotic throughout, but always manages to pull itself together to deliver riffs that’ll make even your Nan fist pump until dawn. – By Richard Collins
With their second summer all dayer coming up very soon, we thought it was about time we sat down with Rich Collins and Lindsey Amos, the team behind the noise, and pop them a few questions. By Dan Salter
There’s absolutely nothing you can do apart from surrender and let it explore the corners of your brain you hardly ever use. – By Richard Collins
Musically, this was the best festival I have ever attended, it was like a firehose on full blast chucking out new musical directions and smashing away boundaries like it ain’t no thang, an incredible experience from start to finish. By Rich Collins
Richard Collins tells you which bands you definitely should watch at Baba Yaga’s Raw Power Festival this year.
Richard Collins caught up with Dave from A Horse Called War, the crusty, doom/sludge band that got resurrected this year after having split up back in 2010.
Desertfest happened again… we came, we saw, fell over, lost our wallets, whitied, threw up, pissed in the canal and spent all our money. We think there was something else too? Oh yeah, a fine collection of some of the devastating bands on the planet. Read on as our man Richard Collins tries to remember what the fuck happened.
We saw the line up for Red Sun Festival in Cardiff and had a panic attack. Our riff obsessed Welsh man Richard Collins checked in with Jim, one of the organisers to find out what the fuck is going on. By Rich Collins
Now in its fourth year this annual ensemble of the heaviest and trippiest riffs in existence has become a global force. People fly in from all over the planet to experience this ridiculous assault on the senses, so it’s no surprise weekend and Sunday tickets are already sold out. There’s a few for Friday and Saturday along with some for individual stages knocking about, so get in there quick: We can’t tell you how lucky we are to have a festival of this magnitude on this miserable island! – by Richard Collins
Ghold are a spacey, grunt doom duo based in London. They just released the incredible Of Ruin on Ritual Productions and are just about to head out on a UK tour with Oozing Wound. They had a quick chat with our man Richard Collins so we could find out a bit more about them, because we fucking love them… READ IT!






