Autumn leaves: forthcoming shows at Taylor John’s House

We're into the final days of summer, and to be honest, you could have been forgiven that winter had… [more]

Autumn leaves: forthcoming shows at Taylor John’s House Autumn leaves: forthcoming shows at Taylor John’s House

Sounds Profile: Jon Pritchard AKA Young Montana

This young producer out of Cov is getting some pretty big props from the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs (naming… [more]

Sounds Profile: Jon Pritchard AKA Young Montana Sounds Profile: Jon Pritchard AKA Young Montana

The Skatepark Situation – Part 5

So I'm back, with a full on new instalment of The Skatepark Situation. A bit of a downer this time,… [more]

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Write or design for Covert Magazine

We're looking for bloggers and writers who have absolutely f*ck all to say and everything to say about… [more]

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Interview with Lisa Meyer of Capsule and Supersonic Festival

Last weekend I was relaxing in my Moscow Police Cell when I spotted, across the balcony, Capsule co-founder… [more]

Interview with Lisa Meyer of Capsule and Supersonic Festival Interview with Lisa Meyer of Capsule and Supersonic Festival

Tits Out – It’s Godiva Festival 2010!

June 25, 2010
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Lady Godiva rode through the streets of medieval Coventry naked as the day she came into this Earth to protest against the taxes her husband, the Earl of Mercia was imposing on the hard working Coventrian folk. We like to think that theres something of that original show of spirit, bravery and defiance that Lady [...]

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Living for the city: goings on at Taylor John’s this summer

June 17, 2010

The younger-yet-bigger brother of The Tin Angel, Taylor John’s House is a hive of activity where live music is the queen bee in a city of worker drones. Winners of the ‘Best Live Performance venue’ at the Godiva Awards in 2007 (and up for the same award this year – click here and get voting), [...]

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Play at Worldwide Festival, Sete South of France

June 16, 2010
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Share the stage with Gil Scott Heron, Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer and a host of other intergalactic acts at this years Worldwide Festival by entering this years Worldwide Festival Talent Search. The competition was launched in March 2008 to discover the new hottest talents around. Its open to both solo artists and bands (signed or [...]

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tonight@ Café Oto; Kaneng Lolang Clang Sayne Cj Boyd

June 16, 2010

D’youu remember this? Last month or something I went n checked out Infinite Livez & Kaneng Lolang and was blow away by Kanengs performance. She’s playing tonight at Café Oto in Hackney (directions/website). Tickets are cheap! £5 advance n £6 on the door, the show starts at 8 and I’m pretty sure it never finishes? [...]

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Film: Psycho @ Warwick Arts Centre

June 16, 2010
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Hitchcocks monumental and notorious piece of film making comes to Warwick Arts centre tonight (Wed 16 June). Still pretty terrifying after all these years, as Phoenix real-estate secretary Marion Crane (Leigh) picks the wrong place to spend a night: The Bates Motel, run by a peculiar man and his crotchety old ‘mother’. The shower scene [...]

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Assembly Leamington Voted Best Live Music Venue in the UK

June 16, 2010
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Who  O2? Shepherds Bush Empire What? The Assembly in Leamington Spa kicked ass at this years Music Week Awards and scooped the coveted Best Live Music Venue 2010 getting up in the grill of more established venues such as The Lexington in London and the O2 in Londres and Glasgow. Not bad for a young [...]

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Green Man Festival 2010

June 15, 2010

Who’s heading down to the Green Man Festival this year? It’s in Wales in a place called Glanusk Park, Usk Valley, Powys (I’m part Welsh, I wish I could speak the languagslgrslj) and the line up is holding some tasty gems including GOLD PANDA, HEXSTATIC, DJ FOOD, STEVE MASON and FUCK BUTTONS. Adult tickets are [...]

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BOGDANRACZYNSKI, CURSORMINER, BLUEDAISY, ZANLYONS, MONSTERX — bussed up review

June 11, 2010

THE TRUTH: I’m covered in fleas and we’re still waiting for the photo’s to get developed. Look at dis while u w8 unrelated sick new band concept art ok What the PEOPLE said: Shiny, galactic, gimme a fag, Samurai, hard good beats, bleeps, history, train sounds = London Soundtrack, unfolding, dicks, weird, ideal real repeated, [...]

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Warwick Arts Centre present American: The Bill Hicks Story

June 11, 2010
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Libertarian, outlaw, shaman, smoker, toker, romantic, hallucinogen ambassador, philosopher, preacher, genius… Bill Hicks was always something other than a comedian. His death from cancer in 1994 deprived the world of arguably the most iconic and probing voice in American culture of the period. Cleverly shunning a conventional talking-heads approach, American: The Bill Hicks Story uses [...]

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Worldwide Festival 2010 – 8-10th July

June 11, 2010
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Worldwide Festival is back and nearly sold out! Now in its 5th year the festival that has an pretty damn whip lineup including Gil Scott-Heron live (opening the festival on Thursday), Flying Lotus, The Gaslamp Killer, dOP live, Norman Jay, Floating Points feat. Fatima, Quantic & His Combo Barbaro live, Dynamite MC, Jeremy Ellis live, [...]

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