Live Review Your Heterosexual Violence: The Lexington, London N1 5 October 2025 This was such a great gig! The Some People Have Too Much To Say album launch. A rare visit to the capital for evangelist scribe fangirl Ged Babey and proof Sunday Matinees are the future for veteran post-punk heroes. I should not have doubted for one second that ‘The Mighty’ Your Heterosexual Violence could live up to their brilliant album as a live unit. They were…
Husamettin Dogan is the only defendant to appeal his conviction for assaulting Pelicot, a French woman whose case drew international attention.Witnesses have testified that defendant Husamettin Dogan was “fully aware” that Gisele Pelicot was asleep while he was assaulting her, as his appeal unfolds in a French court in the southern city of Nimes.Dogan, a 44-year-old construction worker, was one of 50 men convicted of sexually abusing Pelicot in a landmark case last December.Recommended Stories list of 3…
Trump administration continues to send individuals to countries where they have no ties amid mass deportation push.The United States has sent a second so-called “third-country” deportation flight to the tiny southern African nation of Eswatini, shrugging off human rights concerns.Eswatini’s government confirmed on Monday it had received ten deportees from the US who were not nationals of the kingdom. That came after five other deportees from the US were sent to Eswatini in July.Recommended Stories list of 3…
Delegations from Hamas, Israel and the United States are due to convene in Egypt for talks on US President Donald Trump’s proposal to end the war in Gaza.Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas over the 20-point plan are due to begin in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday.The talks, which come on the eve of the second anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel that led to the war, have raised hopes that the devastating…
The deployment would mark the latest escalation of Donald Trump’s use of federal intervention in Democrat-led cities, which the US president describes as rife with crime.California Governor Gavin Newsom has said that US President Donald Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon, after a judge temporarily blocked his administration from deploying that state’s guard to Portland, Oregon.Newsom, a Democrat, called the deployment on Sunday “a breathtaking abuse of the law and power” and pledged to…
Jim Jones All Stars: Get Down ~ Get With It (Via Assai Records) CD | LP | DL | Stream Out 24th October 2025 PRE-ORDER HERE Jim Jones All Stars once again unleash upon us all their intense, high-octane and evangelical fusion of hard driving rock’n’roll, garage rock, gritty rhythm and blues and gospel through the release of their new live album, Get Down ~ Get With It. And there is no question at all that this electrifying and…
A road safety group has received renewed funding to support children's bereavement charities in Devon and Cornwall and provide help for families affected by road crashes. National charity Brake funds two caseworkers for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to provide practical and emotional support. The service has been funded by the police and crime commissioner (PCC) since 2023, and the charity has supported more than 250 families in the area. Brake's CEO Ross Moorlock said he…
Upchuck: I’m Nice Now (Domino) LP | CD | DL Out now 4.5 out of 5.0 stars4.5 Atlanta’s Upchuck distil all their rage and fury into a pointed, aimed, and razor-sharp critique of the world we are navigating. The political is personal. BUY HERE When your back feels forced against the wall, the fight needs a ferocity that shakes the very foundation of those piling indecency after indecency on you. But, and importantly, it needs community, it needs…
ICE agents clash with protesters, deploying rubber bullets and pepper spray amid Chicago immigration demonstrations.United States Border Patrol personnel shot an armed woman in Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security said, as dozens of protesters faced off against federal immigration agents on the city’s southwest side.A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement Saturday that no law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the incident in which a group, including the shot woman, rammed cars into…
Opposition protests turned violent as riot police deployed tear gas and water cannon near the presidential palace.Published On 4 Oct 20254 Oct 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareGeorgian riot police have deployed water cannon, pepper spray and tear gas to disperse protesters who tried to storm the presidential palace in Tbilisi during municipal elections.The clashes took place on Saturday after opposition groups, who had boycotted the vote, called for a “peaceful revolution” against the governing Georgian Dream…
Album Review Hack Job Hexbridge Youth Crew (Pea Brain / CBRG / DTR / Rip Roaring Shit Storm) 7″ | DL | Streaming Out 3 October 2025 A new offering from grindcore and power violence exponents Hack Job sees them step down a gear slightly to deliver up some prime gnarly metal-tinged punk. Horror fiction mingles with real world reality checks with humour never far away says Nathan Brown. Hack Job are mates of mine and always a…
ON OUR RADAR Halloween spoken-word special featuring Jo Eades and Samuel L. Cohen with a £100 cash prize poetry slam. Leigh Curtis Spork! presents a spoken-word Halloween special at Exeter Phoenix on Friday 31 October featuring Bristol poets Jo Eades and Samuel L. Cohen with a £100 cash prize poetry slam. Jo Eades is the winner of poetry slams at the Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival, Ledbury Poetry Festival and the Hip Yak Poetry Shack. Her debut poetry…