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Radiohead Take a Leak

August 19, 2009

I’ve just realised I talk about pissing quite a lot on this site. Anyway… Radiohead have officially released their new track, ‘These Are My Twisted Words’ as a free download via their W.A.S.T.E website. As the song mysteriously appeared on the fansite At East last week. There was speculation that the band would release a

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The Living Dead & The Singing Bad

August 14, 2009

It was quite a time for all coming together and doing stuff at last weekend’s Big Chill festival. And I don’t just mean that a load of people turned up for the festival. Although they did. There were other smaller pockets of getting together and doing stuff during the festival. First off, as expected, on

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Lady Gaga Has a Penis?

August 14, 2009

The unacceptable excuse of a musician/pop star Lady GaGa’s manager has said that rumours that Lady GaGa has a penis are “ridiculous”. However, those rumours have been going round for a while, and a YouTube video purporting to show her penis falling out of her pants at Glastonbury hasn’t helped matters. Gossip website Bossip recently

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Quickie

August 13, 2009

Just a quick one for ya. Check out the psychedelic hip hop sounds of The Gaslamp Killer and his eery ensemble. If a twisted circus came to town I would like to think they would send out macabre clowns to walk the streets handing out flyers, their mp3 players loaded with The Gas Lamp Killers

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Eclipse the nightclub to errrrr Eclipse all others?

July 15, 2009

“In October 1990 Coventry made dance music history. At a time when the nation’s rave scene was still very much an underground “let’s all congregate in a secret field/warehouse location”, Coventry launched the first legal all night rave in a city centre club. It was called The Eclipse, it had slipped through a gap in

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Everyone loves Rhubarb.Radio Surely?

July 13, 2009

Here at Covert we’ve been checking the online radio from Rhubarb at the Custard factory in Birmingham. Setup by around 15 of the Custard Factorys residents it programmes everything from Dubstep to DNB, Bangra to Punk. Well worth a listen to waste away the afternoon. Nice selection if beats are your ting is Secret Wars

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Zombies. Become one. Join Warp Films at the Big Chill

July 10, 2009

Haha. Our good friend Moore from The Suit informs us that if you are going along to the Big Chill this year on the Thursday night you are in with a chance of becoming a world record holder in Warp Films and Film Fours attempt for the biggest Zombie scene for one of their films.

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The Specials came home & we sk…

May 16, 2009

The Specials came home & we skanked hard last night. “Do the Dog, not the Donkey”. An amazing night.

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Covert is getting ready for Th…

May 15, 2009

Covert is getting ready for The Specials – and is excited downstairs.

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We’re looking for contributors for our mag

April 27, 2009

We need new contributors for our magazine. Independent chatter has to come from local matter you see. Nothing said better than from people that live in this pretty shitty city. If you feel like writing for us on anything that floats your boat or gets your goat and perhaps every now and then about local

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