Polish alt/pop musician Brodka has unveiled the darkly dystopian video for her new single ‘Horses’. Expect engaging visuals, mystery and metaphor as illusive as the track's soundscape. "It's about transformation and spiritual metamorphose," Says Monica Brodka. "Mechanical horses. Glorifying of metal and cars. An escape into an imaginary world." Brodka...
By Daniel Mackenzie (@EkcaLiena) There's a unique joy in spending hours in a dark underground bunker with nothing but bass heavy drones and noise for company, the brief shuffles and breaths of other audience members reminding you that you're not alone, or dreaming; then soon afterwards standing atop a cliff...
By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) New research conducted by audio, video and lighting specialists AVonics has shown that live music venues may be becoming less appealing to the British public The survey discovered that 63% of people in the UK hadn’t visited a live music venue in the past 12 months. People in...
By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) Coldplay. Coldplay, Coldplay, Coldplay, with their tepid ear porridge and the reappropriated worldliness of the proudest gap year knobhead. We aren't big fans of Coldplay at TLE, and as it turns out, neither are you, really. Following the announcement of the band’s fourth time headlining at...
By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Studio 32 Music. We’ve gone a bit weird this week, maybe as a result of seeing Nurse With Wound live over the weekend, but whatever the reason, I like it. Some old...
By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) The Old Truman Brewery, Shoreditch, London – The 2016 PC Gamer Weekender is in full-swing. Friendly neckbeards wander the floor with Wargaming.net swag-bags. A Warhammer 40K spider unit bursts through the wall in a shower of painted card and Styrofoam. Downstairs, grey-clad early birds don HTC...
By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) David Attenborough has been named the Greatest Londoner of all time ahead of stiff competition from David Bowie and Queen Elizabeth II, as well and other notable figures born in the Big Smoke. The poll quizzed 500 London inhabitants and 1,500 adults from elsewhere in the UK...
Placebo will be heading out on a world tour in October to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of their platinum selling debut album ’Placebo’. The first leg of the ’20 Years of Placebo’ tour kicks off in Denmark on October 13th 2016 and runs through to Wembley Arena...
Sylosis, Electric Ballroom, London, 7.3.16 Support: Decapitated, The Kind Is Blind All photos copyright of Rich Broome Photography The Kind Is Blind Decapitated Decapitated Sylosis Find more of Rich's work at richbroomemusicphotography.weebly.com