LIVE: BLUEDOT FESTIVAL 2018 – SUNDAY

-JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY, CHESHIRE- [The final of our three-part Bluedot Festival 2018 review, one for each day.] The press office is a dark-walled structure by an ice cream van. It is inauspicious; you peer into the café when you walk up the path, at the cups, buffet and cheap tables. Within it, however, I splutter […]
– CAMP AND FURNACE, LIVERPOOL –  It’s 3pm on a schoolday and the walls are cracking, the ground is fracturing, and my brain is thudding against my skull – it must be the fifth edition of the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia. Over 100 bands are assembling over two days across four stages in the […]

LIVE: LIVERPOOL PSYCH FEST – 23+24/09/2016

FULL LINE-UP & TICKETS ANNOUNCED FOR LIVERPOOL PSYCH FEST 2016

Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia have unveiled their final additions to this year’s festival bill, with a swathe of names joining iconic Welsh psych trailblazers SUPER FURRY ANIMALS and London’s kaleidoscopic dreamweavers THE HORRORS on 23 + 24 September. PURE PHASE ENSEMBLE featuring MARK GARDENER (Ride) will make their debut UK performance at this year’s […]
– THE RUBY LOUNGE, MANCHESTER – Good grief. Even the most seasoned gig-goer would be forgiven for taking an extra moment to process proceedings when Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (to give them their full title) roll into town. The veteran free-form progressive psychedelic experimental rock group, or as they would have […]

LIVE: ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE – 26/08/2014

LIVE: ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE – 07/11/2011

– THE RUBY LOUNGE, MANCHESTER – Where to start? Hmm, a bit of background to set the scene on tonights ‘happening’ would probably help. Wikipedia helpfully informs me that Acid Mothers Temple is “a psychedelic rock band, the core of which formed in 1995” So far, so good, but there appear to be a myriad […]