See you in Rotterdam, @leftofthedialrotterdam 👀
We’re teaming up with the iconic new music showcase festival to bring a special HIDEOUS X LEFT OF THE DIAL physical issue ‼️
Including exclusive interviews with almost a third of the lineup, photography from the festival and an inside scoop as to what makes this festival so special.
Look out for the 3 Hideous Girls this weekend. You can’t miss ‘em 😏
For this week only the LOTD X HIDEOUS issue is JUST £5 to pre-order. Purchase now to get the discount and the first look at the issue.
Available to purchase via the link in bio.
Scantily clad, and idiosyncratically layered, multi-hyphenate creatives spill into the belly of lost — the experimental clubnight that’s been steadily gaining traction since launching last year. Tonight’s bill: Fast Money Music. Amid the labyrinthine layout, smoky dance floors, hidden bars, and cinema rooms looping films of French women with perky breasts, a certain Nick Hinman, aka Fast Money Music, lurks in the shadows, patiently waiting for his midnight slot in the club’s “music room.”
Read the full article via the link in our bio!
✍️ @angiefrombradford
📸 @bertrandnaugustin + @louis_gilbert_
Reflections on past events…
Ninety years ago the Savoy Cinema opened on Kingsland Road.
Four years after that bombs fell over London.
Fifty-Three years after that a handful of filmmakers founded a charity.
A few Saturdays ago I was lucky enough to spend five hours listening to five acts, for a worthwhile cause,
in a beautiful room built for a very slightly different purpose.
Unrelated of course.
Bathtime Sounds helmed this halfday fundraiser for Warchild with a lineup of London’s best bands to
float away to,
in their words:
“All proceeds from the event will be donated to War Childs’s current efforts in Gaza and Sudan, supporting not only children but also their families, helping entire communities heal, rebuild, and create safer futures together.”
✍️ @thefacelord
📸 @rickyatthegigs
Read the the full piece via the link in our bio!
BORSCHT Release New Single ‘Up North’ @borschtmusic
“Somewhere between affection and animosity sits BORSCHT’s new single, “UP NORTH”, a quirky track about what they describe as one of life’s elusive mysteries...marriage! The track was written during a period marked by pressure, change and emotional strain and exists in a place of contradiction, never fully choosing a side. It is a melancholic, affectionate ode to a life once lived in the North, and captures the fragile balancing act of holding things together as life shifts, while still retaining a sense of meaning and joy.”
✍️ @angiefrombradford
📸 Eddie Lawrence
Déyyess At Camden Assembly Review:
@deyyessx “Déyyess has arrived at the perfect time in wake of the success of artists like Christine and the Queen and Chappell Roan brining queer-led storytelling to the forefront of pop culture.”
Read the full article via the link in our bio!
✍️ @milomjafc
📸 @hayleyyt_
Uncle Junior, Lifepath and The Scuttlers — The Best New Talent On The Scene.
@unclejuniorband@lifepath99_@the_scuttlers
“As always, the crowd are giving it their all, and Uncle Junior are ramping up their energy in turn. They’re a young band, but have a confidence that comes from growing up in a school where the the likes of BCNR, New Wave, and Squid were forming, and it feels as if they are the frontrunners of the next wave of The Windmill scene.”
Read the full article through the link in our bio!
✍️ @milomjafc
📸 @fox_trotter42
The Great Escape festival (@greatescapefest ) has always been a way to discover the best new talent in the music scene. Featuring Sam Fender, Lorde and Wolf Alice playing in small pub bars before they got big, its reputation as the king of tastemaker festivals is well-earned. A multi-venue spectacle will see some of the best acts of tomorrow descend on Brighton – and you’d be wrong to be anywhere else in the scene. Here are Hideous Magazines top 15 picks for this years festival, courtesy of Miles Milton-Jefferies...
Full piece via the link in bio.
✍🏻 - @milomjafc
In celebration of Nowruz, the holiday of renewal, marking the first day of spring and new beginnings. We bring forward a review of Woman Life Freedom - Music for Iran - Volume 4 to bring a little bit of prosperity into your new year.
“Music for Iran, Volume 4 arrives, not as a didactic or overtly programmatic body of work, but as a statement of political alignment. The twenty-six-track compilation brings together artists across scenes and sensibilities, all contributing work in support of the Iranian grassroots organisation Free Them Now, which campaigns for the release of political prisoners, supports displaced families, and aids those forced to flee the country. The music is not subject-specific; the act of protest is in putting your name and work towards the project, in raising the funds. It is an answer to what is required of us as artists, what to do when you feel impotent in the face of political realities. It insists that art is not separate from the conditions in which it is made.“
✍️ @bethijones
🎨 @musicforiran_wlf
