Author: Azra Pathan

My Half Caught Heart.
March 4, 2026 No Responses

My Half Caught Heart.

My friend Matthew Awbery is a skilful lyricist and musician. Having worked with him for several years now on other projects, I always look forward to where he is next on his journey.After a tumultuous 2025 he is more grounded...
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I Dug A Hole In The Yard For You.
March 3, 2026 No Responses

I Dug A Hole In The Yard For You.

‘I was blind to the truth of our existence’ Watching the video for ‘Surviving The Vermin’ I find myself looking at a room where The Purge would fit in quite comfortably. It is basic, with what looks like white tarpaulin...
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The Scars We Hold
March 2, 2026 No Responses

The Scars We Hold

‘They passively divide us through technology’ My friends. if truth be told, we seem to be getting no further forward into the realms of improvement in our condition, in our sanity and in how the world is.Our Swedish cousins Soen...
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Bleed, Alone, Desires, Death, STOP.
February 28, 2026 No Responses

Bleed, Alone, Desires, Death, STOP.

‘You use your words as weapons’ I have to be honest, the end of last year for me was utterly crap, it left me mentally and physically exhausted and although I was still attending events, I could not manage the...
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Cynthia and Dahlia – Live After Death!
February 25, 2026 No Responses

Cynthia and Dahlia – Live After Death!

It was another night upstairs at Dead Wax, a grassroots event featuring three of the best from the Midlands, screeching, wailing and scratching at your eyeballs, full of bravado and brass neck that you cower in the darkness hoping they...
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Pouring Sugar On Your Wounds.
February 25, 2026 No Responses

Pouring Sugar On Your Wounds.

Billed as their only headline show for Birmingham the fans packed the room, so much so that I had to leave midset to get some air. Under a blood red Brum sky, the city was in pole position tonight, hosting...
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MGK – MeMe, Georgia, and Kal at home.
February 20, 2026 No Responses

MGK – MeMe, Georgia, and Kal at home.

For me it was another night of racing Ubers – Formula Brum – with my gig buddy Sammy Johns, as we hurtled across town to watch MeMe Detroit flying gracefully like a falcon, over the homes and castles of Birmingham,...
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Suited, Booted and Rooted!
January 29, 2026 No Responses

Suited, Booted and Rooted!

We are well into the New Year, and the wheels of industry keep on turning. Today I bring you my newfound friends, Rooted, overseen by Andrew Miller, of Rock Riot Management, DJ at Brum Radio and host of ‘Let’s Build...
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Hey You!
January 27, 2026 No Responses

Hey You!

‘The news is a lie’ Words you don’t want to hear when we have, for generations, settled down in front of the television and absorbed every item on the six o’clock menu. Now it is everywhere and available at every...
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Pijn For Me Birmingham!
December 4, 2025 No Responses

Pijn For Me Birmingham!

I am so very sorry to you all, the bands especially for the delay in publishing this piece, life threw me a curveball that was unexpected.It’s my second time seeing Death Goals, first was at Supersonic earlier this year and...
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