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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Black midi - Caught on Camera

My New Band Believe review – beautiful ideas burst from ex-Black Midi man’s lovable debut album

Smoothing out the jump-cut chaos of his previous band, Cameron Picton brings entirely acoustic instrumentation to bear on these lovely, beguiling songs

The Guardian - UK

“A unique, genuine, and fierce guitar player”: Black Midi guitarist Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin dies at 26

The influential, boundary-pushing guitarist helped Black Midi become one of the most prominent bands in British indie rock

Guitar World

Black Midi guitarist Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin dies aged 26

The guitarist helped form the experimental rock band in London in 2017

The Independent UK

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Squid get evil for killer new album: 'It's dark and grisly, but still funny'

Squid talk to us about their new album Cowards, which has evil as its theme and sounds like nothing you’ve heard before

Evening Standard

“The sonic equivalent of a fist-fight between James Hetfield and Alex Lifeson”: October 2024 Guitar World editors’ picks

The hot new tracks and deep cuts GW editors have been listening to this month

Guitar World

Ex-Black Midi star Geordie Greep: ‘Almost every band behaves like a corporation. Everything is a press release’

After his abrupt dissolving of the spiky art rock favourites, the singer has returned intent on making music ‘for your ears, not your brain’

The Guardian - UK

“We’d agreed not to say anything about ‘breaking up’ so I was as blindsided as everyone else”: Experimental rock darlings Black Midi announce “indefinite” hiatus

Bassist Cameron Picton claims he was surprised by the sudden announcement made by guitarist Geordie Greep

Guitar World

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black midi announce they're on "indefinite hiatus"

Eclectic London prog trio black midi surprise fans by announcing split over the weekend

Louder

“Dirty Deeds… has some more complicated ideas that go up inan Eddie Van Halen kind of way. It reminds me of the kind of things Steve Hackett was doing in 1972”: Black Midi’s Georgie Greep on the high-voltage genius of Angus Young

Black Midi might sound little like AC/DC but as Greep reveals, the influence is there and it is profound, and here breaks down the madcap genius style of rock's evergreen schoolboy

Guitar World

"Hellfire is something that has way more impact with a much wider scope." Are black midi really the 'natural heirs' to King Crimson?

Young London modern prog rock trio black midi set out their stall with third album Hellfire

Louder

‘I used to be associated with music that wasn’t in demand’: Producer Dan Carey on Speedy Wunderground, Fontaines DC and his new band, Miss Tiny

Megan Graye visits the in-demand producer at his home studio where Carey opens up about his good luck blessings, facing setbacks, and his tried and true ‘formula’ when it comes to producing records for south London’s buzziest bands

The Independent UK

Our picks for Manchester's best small gigs in November 2022

Here's what we have picked out for this month

Manchester Evening News

Review: Kurt Vile and the Manchester Pscyh Fest

A great mix of music all along the Oxford Road corridor

Manchester Evening News

Black Midi: Hellfire review – exhilarating ambition

The Londoners freely cram genres and ideas into their concept album about death

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Black Midi: Hellfire review – gruesome rock opera is a little too clever

From cocktail-lounge piano to thrashing drums, the British prog band make musical handbrake turns that are thrilling but hard to love

Evening Standard

Somerset House Summer Series: All you need to know

It’s all happening down at The Strand

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