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Get On The Dyke & Ride! Jamie Thomson Cycles To Roadburn In The Netherlands (The Quietus)
Posted on Friday, June 3rd, 2011
Intrepid man of pedal and metal Jamie Thomson tells the tale of his mission to cycle to the Roadburn Festival: featuring ferries, dykes, windmills, heaviosity, rude signage, useless national cycle trails, and 345 cheese & ham toasties.
“But why?” That was the incredulous response I frequently received when I told people I was going to cycle to Roadburn this year. Well, I never planned to go in 2010, but many of my friends did – some were stranded in Holland for days due to the Icelandic dust cloud; some never even made it over and spent their Roadburn propping up the bar in an airport waiting for the all-clear that never came. What, I thought to myself, would be a cast-iron way of getting to Tilburg without relying on planes or trains? (The ferry, of course, being the exception, but in the event of modern civilisation collapsing, I’m sure I could have sailed across at some point.)
To augment the journey, I planned to listen to music by the bands I’d be seeing in the flesh – and hopefully happen upon some serendipitous soundtrack to my journey. For this I bought a neat little speaker to hang over my shoulder from my rucksack, as listening to music on my headphones while cycling has long been a no-no. This has been the case ever since I lost a nice pair of Sennheisers to the spokes of my front wheel after a car roared up behind me – which of course I couldn’t hear – nearly sending me over my handlebars. I was so incandescent with rage that two drunks broke off from their fight over a can of Special Brew to come over and calm me down.
Originally, the plan had been to cycle door to door, but my tried-and-tested path out of east London had been scuppered by Olympic building works, and as I didn’t really fancy taking my life in my hands on the Eastway, I arbitrarily chose Chelmsford as my starting point. It’s just as well I did, as with even only an extra 10 miles tacked onto my journey, things could have worked out very differently.
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The Quietus: Lee Dorrian Discusses The End Of Cathedral
Posted on Thursday, May 19th, 2011
The end of seminal UK doom metal troupe Cathedral‘s run as a live act is nearly upon us. Lee Dorrian and his behemothic troupe will leave the stage permanently after a December 3rd gig at the London Kentish Town Forum. Support will be provided by kindred spirits Grand Magus, Comus, ...read more
Avant-Garde Epiphanies In Tilburg: Roadburn 2011 Reviewed (The Quietus)
Posted on Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Jamie Thomson reports back on the finest that this year’s Roadburn festival had to offer, from Swans to Sunn O))) and Godflesh to Ghost. Once a year, the cream of the world’s avant-garde, experimental, drone and doom bands converge on a small town in southern Holland under the guise of ...read more
The Quietus: In Their Own Words – Lee Dorrian On The Legacy Of Napalm Death
Posted on Monday, June 7th, 2010
Lovingly pinched from The Quietus: “A lot of people probably still think I’m the same person I was in 1988 because they’ve got a record there which makes Napalm Death timeless for them. Their vision of you is from that time. But in reality I might be the same in ...read more
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