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Geektastic – Chillax with Recording Sound In the Midlands Part 3 – Panel Interview – The Suit Interview #2

by The Suit Covert

  Its Sunday Morning. So have you got your Bacon Buttie at hand,  your mug of tea and you reading glasses on? yes? Good as its time for the 2nd half of the interview questions on music recording in the midlands and this half is very chilled .   12. Software or hardware? Discuss Jon: [...]

Music Geek Extreme! Recording Sound In the Midlands Part 2 – Panel Interview – The Suit Interview #2

by The Suit Covert

  Ok – In the 1st part of the Interview we met the panel, and I bet you thought “that was nice but where are the actual questions” Well here they are!!! This is the first half and then tomorrow we’ll put up the second half. This is the proper muso geek stuff , so [...]

Get Ya Geek on! Recording Sound In the Midlands Part 1- Panel Interview – The Suit Interview #2

by The Suit Covert

  Its taken nearly two months to put together but here is coverts first ever panel interview. With the continuing rise of the bedroom producer I thought we’d start by giving some expertise back to ya! The panel that we’ve put together have expertise in dance to rock, from folk to electro. Some are professionals, [...]

Calling The Shots: Independent Film-making in Coventry (Part Two)

by Brian Harley Features

PART TWO: So Call The Shots, the unique forum under which local film-makers could network and collaborate had expired, exposing a deficient, isolated scene, inhabited by creative refugees and struggling, aspiring film-makers. However, Wood and Pinches were defiant, certain that Call The Shots could still play a valuable role in Coventry’s film-making, they set about plotting its comeback. (Cue Rocky Theme). Just a [...]

Calling The Shots: Independent Film-making in Coventry (Part One)

by Brian Harley Features

PART ONE: Director Robert Altman once said that film-making is a chance to live many lifetimes. With this single remark, Altman sent forth what is arguably one of the most laconic endorsements for film-making ever, in which he refers not only to the subject matter of each film, but to the lives and times that revolve [...]

puio4: MARTIN BLATES

by rex trouble Art/Design

MARTIN BLATES BLATES is a one-man badman band, he’s Coventry cities best kept musical secret If you’ve been to any ƒLUD nights then you will have heard the live psycho sounds of Martin Blatehoven. The guy’s a musical monster band. His tracks glow with spooky beauty and good energy. He uses this ace combo of [...]

Hackers Fuckers Makers Takers

by Baz Jobson Features

You may have noticed recently that this site kept reverting to either party poker.com or mucky pictures with old birds with their tits out. (yeh we know some of  you dig that!). This is not our new get rich scheme but some Russian hacker who basically got into Covert (must of been a counter intelligence [...]

The Skatepark Situation – Part 5

by adetheterrible BMX/Skate

So I’m back, with a full on new instalment of The Skatepark Situation. A bit of a downer this time, as it’s going to involve SOME complaining. However, there is understanding at the base of these complaints, and as has been said before these articles are merely here to help and inform rather to bitch and moan. [...]

The Skatepark Situation – Part 4.5

by adetheterrible BMX/Skate

This isn’t a proper entry, just a quick update. Some sort of progress is in motion. Contacts at a major skatepark building company are working with myself to secure a couple of key friends in the council who are currently holding the purse strings for some new and interesting developments within our city. It has [...]

Bernard cribbins did my rib ins

by Baz Jobson Features

Sorry for the tenuous title of this post, but did anybody else see jackanory and wombles legend bernard cribbins on never mind the buzzcocks this week? Yeh i know i shouldnt be watching it, but i’d pretty much done with looking at photos of tiger woods conquests with their clams out on rhe internet. The [...]

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Luna Kiss

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Hailing from the Coventry area, Prog Rock band Luna Kiss are taking the local area, and the globe by storm. Creating their own brand of rock by fusing traditional elements from bands such as Pink Floyd, with complex time signatures and weird and broken chord structures, they have gained a great deal of credit and [...]