Demon Pigeon

Paul watched the Brit Awards when it was his time of the month, got in a right tizzy and wrote this. At the same time I was throwing up on my dog.

We’re completely awful masochistic human beings, so we’re going to be having a regular look at the very worst in new music (basically most of it) so you don’t have to. This week… SLEEPER CELL!

The first, in what is more than likely to be an epic saga. Unless he dies or something, in which case this is probably a shitty idea but anyhoo…

Come join us, as DP’s very own Dr Love, Mr Daniel Cairns, tells you how to treat your bitch good on Valentines day.

Read our indepth review…

City Screen Basement Bar, York, 31/01/2010 by Paul Stephenson Richard Herring‘s star may not be on the ascendancy in quite the same way as his old Fist Of Fun cohort Stewart Lee, but there is a definite sense in the City Screen Basement Bar that we may be about to watch something quite special. Having [...]

(Virgin, 2010) by Paul Stephenson One of the dangerous things about leaving a huge gap between albums is that you run the risk of either hyping your return to near impossible heights, or leaving it so long that nobody really cares any more.  The latter fate befell Massive Attack‘s previous outing ‘100th Window‘ which was [...]

It’s a guaranteed fact that the more generic and staid a band is, the more generic and staid their music videos are. That rule of thumb did not prepare me for the new Unearth video, however, which is so hideously put together that it makes old Biohazard videos look like high art. I mean, just give this [...]

(Napalm Records, 2009) By Noel Oxford Do Ahab love whales, or do they hate them? It’s not easy to say. With The Divinity of Oceans, they complete a trifecta of whaling-disaster themed recordings begun with 2005’s Oath EP. Predictably, this ‘Nantucket Saga’ draws heavily for inspiration from Moby-Dick, the only Victorian fishing trip storybook anyone [...]

Doomy Big Business may have released ‘Mind The Drift’ six months ago to little fanfare, no doubt down to having to spend half their time bothering Melvins albums as well, but they have released this rather splendid video for “The Drift” which means we all now get to be reminded what a fantastic album it [...]