Live Review: Gallows
Forget yourselves/You’re all going to burn in hell/You have no redeeming features” snarls Britannia’s most vicious straight-edge warrior. To be fair, it’s not the first time we’ve been told we have no redeeming features on a Monday, but...
Album review: Gallows
The last time a flame-haired iconoclast found himself at the forefront of British punk, he coined a timeless phrase: “anger is an energy”. Energy is a useful thing; it alters its circumstances and inspires its surroundings. And this is the...
Gallows, Anti-Flag and Fucked Up
They’ve shone like stars ever since they poked their heads above the punk underground in mid-2006. But there’s a moment that occurs at the butt-end of Gallows’ set this evening, the final Shockwaves NME Awards 2008 show no less, that...
Gallows
Still bludgeoning their way into the nation’s hearts, Gallows have come up with a magnificent follow-up to ‘Staring At The Rude Bois’: a completely uncommercial, lacerating blitz of razorwire riffs, clattering drums, skew-whiff rhythms and...
Gallows Feat Lethal Bizzle
There are a few reasons why this song should be the first disappointing thing the “coolest man in the world”™ Frank Carter has ever put his name to. Firstly, it’s the ‘cash-in’ extra track on the Warners re-issue of ‘Orchestra Of...
Gallows/Lethal Bizzle; The Junction, Cambridge,...
Cambridge: a tree-strewn wonderland of imposing colleges and intellectuals, a city responsible for spawning politicians and Monty Python. But hey, it’s not all bad. Tonight Gallows and Lethal Bizzle are attacking, and a millennium of tradition...
Gallows
Spitting, gouging, scything, raging – and that was just the scrum in the office to get hold of the review copy – such is the wonder of Gallows. “So you’re alive in the belly of a shark/So cold/So dark” is the opening lyric. Beats ‘Same...
Gallows: River Thames, London/Download,...
It’s a balmy night on London’s Victoria Embankment, eerily calm as pleasure cruises float carelessly down the Thames carrying lilting jazz quartets and contented diners – but that is all set to change. For tonight, party boat The Yacht Club...
Dot To Dot Festival
It’s not a good start. Torrential rain forces the outdoor stage, erm, indoors, shattering the dreams of several local bands who end up playing to nobody. By the time The Whip step up at Stealth, though, everyone’s mastered a map and the place...
Gallows
Yes, yes, ‘Orchestra Of Wolves’ has been out for ages. But since that day, fortune has smiled on Gallows in extreme ways. Their debut now amounts to a year zero for, if not music in general, then certainly British hardcore. Thing is,...
