Numbers never matter, numbers never lie. Really? Well, if we worried about our numbers we'd be a lads mag reunion tour glossy nostalgia product instead of spending our Supersonic Weekend wandering around Digbeth wowing to ourselves about Melt Banana overpowering the place. Of course we get it, your life was better 30 years ago when you had nothing more to worry about than getting high and getting off; before you rose to branch manager, got into earnest energy price-cap discussions round the water cooler, discovered the BA you're still paying for has the value of a GCSE and negotiating the Student Finance England forms for your kids isn't all that. Bring back the good old days. However, as a dispensation to former lads mag readers still reading here, in those those lads mag style listicles, surely Yasuko Onuki, (and likewise Agriculture's Leah Levinson and The None's Kaila Whyte and of course, Gazelle Twin) would be up there in the coolest women in rock music list? But only if they took their clothes off? The Supersonic people did such an amazing job to get all of these artists into one place on one weekend. I'll check with WordHippo because I need something stronger than intense to describe it. Melt Banana really are astonishing and astonishingly entertaining to see. Such grace and such elan and so many melted faces in the audience. Alan RIder's interview with the band tops our list of sensationally well-read stories in August 2024. Last month was our third biggest month ever by some metrics we use. We're gowing. The attendent growing pains are a worry. Oh well. Oh and by way of apology... I'm just envious, I was too old in the late 80s/90s to enjoy the late 80s/90s. I suppose if you remember the 90s, you really weren't there.
- Melt Banana – are you ready? 2024-08-12 by Alan Rider
The hurricane that is Melt Banana is heading to these shores. Alan Rider battens down the hatches and catches up with them before the storm hits - It's Fire Engines Week in Outsideleft! 2024-08-25 by LamontPaul
It's Fire Engines Week All Week - Striking The Right Balance 2024-08-16 by Alan Rider
Alan Rider checks out The Lonely Arts Club’s latest exhibition at The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich - Going Shopping #4: Auld Omens 2024-08-15 by Ancient Champion
Taxidermy is back and way more at Auld Omens, a new shopping experience in the heart of the Oasis - It's A Wonderful Life 2024-08-23 by David O'Byrne
David O'Byrne with the breathless read of Moving Music - The memoirs of Rikki Stein - Don't Bring Billy Childish to the Party. Seriously. Don't. 2024-08-19 by DJ Fuzzyfelt
DJ Fuzzyfelt reads Ted Kessler's Billy Childish book To Ease My Troubled Mind - In Search of Space Rock 2024-08-08 by Alan Rider
Alan Rider gets all tripped out and cosmic listening to Cherry Red’s new take on Hawkwind’s classic second album ‘In Search Of Space’ - New Season: Derby County 2024-08-05 by Paul Mortimer
As the new season approaches we're asking our writers and friends about the chances of their fave non-prem team - A Dayglo Mohair Jumper 2024-08-27 by Tim London
Davy Henderson talks to Tim London as Fire Engines Week in Outsideleft continues - Alan Moore - Behind the illusion 2024-08-20 by Alan Rider
Alan Rider seeks philosophical meaning through the new book on the work of Alan Moore - It's Getting Mighty Clouded 2024-08-13 by Tim London
Tim London hears the new LP from Crack Cloud and suggests that you too can get intoxicated on influences - Pabllo Vittar: The Queen Who Dares, the Heir Who Cares 2024-08-07 by Sofia Ribeiro Willcox
Sofia Ribeiro Willcox discusses Pabllo Vittar's determination to drag drag into the mainstream - Taking Your 18th Trip on Brown Acid 2024-08-22 by Alan Rider
Alan Rider reacquaints himself with rare and weird tracks from rock's past - Tony Fletcher Asks: Where Next After Spotify? 2024-08-01 by Alan Rider
Celebrated author, podcaster and founder of Jamming!, Tony Fletcher discovers an alternative string to his streaming bow in Qobuz. - The Revolution Won’t Be Cinematized… 2024-08-10 by Tim London
Tim London sees Variety (1983) at Close-Up Cinema and figures how the revolution flamed out - John Salt: Junkyard Dog 2024-08-13 by Ancient Champion
Brief exhibition in the home town of the renowned photorealist painter - Sunday Morning Poet: Wayne Dean-Richards 2024-08-18 by Wayne Dean-Richards
What if Wayne Dean-Richards gave gave us 18 poems to publish and we took our time about it... - The Return of the Hawk Lord 2024-08-16 by Ogglypoogly
Ogglypoogly has Five hearts for Hamish Hawk's Firmer Hand - Cheekbones and Speed 2024-08-28 by Tim London
As part of Fire Engines Week, Tim London reads Johnnie Johnstone's secret history of Josef K - Version Therapy 2024-08-14 by Martin Devenney
Martin Devenney feels a classic cover cures all ills
