Category: Racket from the Pit
RACKET FROM THE PIT: May 2010
Our roving musical reporter Backbone gives us the news from his UK and Europe tour with the Crazy Arm boys… The Digest takes a new turn this month, as I spent the whole time on the road with my hillbilly boys, Crazy Arm, supporting FRANK TURNER throughout the UK and mainland Europe. So more of [...]
RACKET FROM THE PIT: April 2010
So off we trotted on tour again, this time to mainland Europe for a mini-jaunt with BANGERS, taking in France and Belgium. Glorious times. First stop, Le Havre, France, was a baptism of fire, as drunken boys dropped their trousers and drunken girls hollered like drunken boys (McDaids, 17 Feb). Local support, DRUNK SINCERITY, were [...]
RACKET FROM THE PIT: March 2010
Our roving musical reporter Backbone gives us the news from mosh pits around the country… We kicked off our touring year with a weekend of shows accompanied by London punk soul brothers THE DISSOCIATES – a lovely bunch of misfits with a simmering undercurrent of inter-band animosity that was most amusing from the outside. First [...]
RACKET FROM THE PIT: February 2010
Backbone, our roving reporter, gives us his opinion on the gigs he’s been to over the last few months… Back in November, Oregon punks, BLACK ELK, created a sound that could have moved mountains or scared mammoths due, in no small part, to a guitarist whose job appeared to be to make people cry through [...]
