Fu Manchu, The Young Gods – interviews and live reviews

Posted by Paul Raven @ 12-06-2007 in General

This is a little off-topic for VCTB, perhaps, but I feel I’m entitled to a bit of self-aggrandisement every once in a while.

So it is with great pride that I link you towards my (site-leader) interview with Bob Balch, guitarist of desert-rock veterans Fu Manchu, and my review of Fu Manchu playing Southampton’s Nexus with support from the excellent Valient Thorr.

Any VCTB regulars who read a lot of (or indeed any) music journalism, please give me some feedback – it’s hard to be objective sometimes, and my editor at that site is too busy to critique my work before publishing it …

… oooh, added bonus: my interview/review combo piece with Franz Triechler of Swiss industrial act The Young Gods is also available on teh intartoobs.

And I’m off to review Electric Six tomorrow night. Rock and roll, eh?

Cafe Scientifique!

Posted by Paul Raven @ 24-05-2006 in General

Last night I attended my first Cafe Scientifique, the second to be held here in Velcro City, put on in a combined effort by the University and the Council. Continue reading “Cafe Scientifique!”

It rhymes with ‘rogue’, actually

Posted by Paul Raven @ 29-03-2006 in General

The synthesiser obsessives in your circle of friends are going to be having funny turns for the next few months… Continue reading “It rhymes with ‘rogue’, actually”