Dave Bowes

Live Reviews 

Temples Festival 2015 – Day 3 Review By Dave Bowes

15th July 201513th September 2019 Dave Bowes Anta, Between The Buried And Me, Bristol, Dave Bowes, Earth, Ghold, KEN mode, Krokodil, Live Review, Monarch, Motion, OHMMS, Pallbearer, Temples Festival, Temples Festival 2015, Venom Prison, Voivod, Year Of No Light

We all knew it was going to happen. Arriving at the venue to find that stage times have been pushed

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Live Reviews 

Temples Festival 2015 – Day 2 Review By Dave Bowes

14th July 201513th September 2019 Dave Bowes Bölzer, Bristol, Caïna, Celeste, Dave Bowes, Goatsnake, Live Review, Mantar, Motion, Pig Destroyer, Portal, Skitsystem, Sonance, Sunn O))), Temples Festival, Temples Festival 2015, Torche, Triptykon

Breakfast is sorted, the sun’s about as out as it’s ever going to be and the local beer and cider

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Live Reviews 

Temples Festival 2015 – Day 1 Review By Dave Bowes

13th July 201513th September 2019 Dave Bowes Bongzilla, Bristol, Converge, Dave Bowes, Enabler, Leng Tch'e, Live Review, Motion, Oblivionized, Pig Destroyer, Sea Bastard, Teef, Temples Festival, Temples Festival 2015, The Afternoon Gentlemen, Throats, Trap Them, Weak, Weedeater, YAITW, Young And In The Way

As far as I can tell, there are two types of festival people. There are the rare few who’ll have

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Interviews R-Z 

Spiritual Beggars: Dave Bowes Interviews Founding Member Spice About The Imminent Reissues

8th July 20157th September 2019 Dave Bowes Ad Astra, Another Way To Shine, Band of Spice, Dave Bowes, Interview, Kayser, Mantra III, Music For Nations, On Fire, Spice, Spiritual Beggars

At the beginning of the 90s, the thought of Carcass playing good ol’ rock & roll would have been pretty

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Articles 

Dave Bowes’ Heavy Vibes Of 2014

27th December 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014 Year Review, Anaal Nathrakh, Aphex Twin, Article, Babymetal, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, Boris, Dave Bowes, Earth, Electric Wizard, Goat, Godflesh, Helmet, Ides Of Gemini, Katy B, Krieg, Laibach, Mastodon, Menace Ruine, Merzbow-Gustafsson-Pandi Trio, Mono, Mope, Multipletap, Psalm Zero, Sabbath Assembly, Sunn O))), Temples Festival, The Body, Tim Hecker, Ulver, Witch Mountain, Yob

I’ll admit it right off the bat – I’m shite at these things. I’m either completely predictable and return to

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Shield Your Eyes ‘Reciprocate’ LP/DD 2014

13th December 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, Blues, Dave Bowes, Experimental, Math Rock, Progressive, Reciprocate, Review, Romac Puncture Repairs, Shield Your Eyes

For the unaware, Shield Your Eyes have been kicking out their distinctive math-rock blues for a good few years now,

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Carlton Melton / Mind Mountain – God Unknown Records Singles Club – 7″/DD 2014

20th November 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, 7", Carlton Melton, Dave Bowes, Digital, Experimental, God Unknown Records, Kraut, Mind Mountain, Prog Rock, Psych, Review

The concepts of Singles Clubs always seem like such a good idea in principle, but much of the time there’s

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Album & EP Reviews O 

Obake ‘Mutations’ CD/LP/DD 2014

18th November 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, Avant-Garde, CD, Dave Bowes, Digital, Doom, LP, Mutations, Obake, Rare Noise Records, Review, Sludge

Change isn’t always welcome and, while the departure of Zu’s Massimo Pupillo from the ranks of Obake’s finely-honed jazz-sludge machine

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A Album & EP Reviews 

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. / Anthroprophh – God Unknown Records Singles Club – 7″/DD 2014

17th November 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, 7", Acid Mothers Temple, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Dave Bowes, Digital, Experimental, God Unknown Records, Psych, Review

God Unknown’s singles club has gotten off to a fine start by anyone’s standards, but this second volume is certainly

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G-Q Interviews 

H A R K: Dave Bowes Talks To Guitarist/Vocalist Jimbob Isaac From The UK’s Prog-Sludgers

13th November 20147th September 2019 Dave Bowes Crystalline, Dave Bowes, HARK, Interview, Jimbob Isaac, Season Of Mist

It’s unfair to tag H A R K as Taint’s successor but, in a way, Jimbob Isaac’s prog-sludge trio is

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Album & EP Reviews M 

My Brother The Wind ‘Once There Was A Time When Time And Space Were One’ CD/LP/DD 2014

6th November 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, CD, Dave Bowes, Digital, Free Electric Sound, Instrumental, Kraut, LP, My Brother The Wind, Once There Was A Time When Time And Space Were One, Psych, Review

While time and space are inherently omnipresent, both are slippery concepts that demand examination and often elude it. They can

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