Nov 25

Torche @ Hare & Hounds, 25th November 2010

Torche Time doesn’t half fly sometimes. It barely seems five minutes ago I had set up residence at the Vivid warehouse last December to experience Capsule’s week long celebration of their tenth anniversary, coupled with their fabled Christmas festivities. Granted, November may have seemed a little premature for their final gig of the year, but after a hectic twelve months for the promoters - putting on everyone from Eyehategod to Cluster, making big strides with the Home of Metal project, another wildly successful Supersonic festival, and the small matter of maternity leave; noone could grumble that an early break this year wasn’t anything less than well-deserved.


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Nov 24

Black Breath + Grimpen Mire @ Hare & Hounds, 24th November 2010

Black Breath I blame Cursed for all this. Ever since the Canadian HC band dropped their first album back in 2003, a proliferation of like-minded bands have fashioned a similar sound in which their straight-ahead, ripping hardcore is run through with the heavy death n' roll of Swedish death metal legends Entombed.


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Oct 24

Supersonic Festival @ Custard Factory, 22nd - 24th October 2010

Supersonic Festival With trees shedding leaves and skies casting a noticeably darker haze over the Custard Factory, Supersonic rolls into town for its latest instalment, this time casting a notably darker ambience across proceedings. With the festival shunting itself into October this time around, its acts seemingly followed suit into a realm of knowingly bleak approximation.


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Sep 08

Modified Toy Orchestra + Micronormous @ Town Hall, 8th September 2010

Modified Toy Orchestra As a lover of gadgets, unique instruments and all things experimental, the alluring and literally electrifying line up of Micronormous and Modified Toy Orchestra was more than I could withhold.


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May 26

Acid Mothers Temple @ Hare & Hounds, 26th May 2010

Acid Mother Temple It's been two years since Acid Mothers Temple last appeared at the Hare & Hounds, providing a much anticipated return all round, and they certainly don't disappoint.


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May 22

Wolves in the Throne Room + Tweak Bird @ Hare & Hounds, 22nd May 2010

Wolves in the Throne Room Fresh from catapulting Kings Heath into the cosmos courtesy of Chrome Hoof a mere two days beforehand, Capsule returned to terra firma to give us a much earthier proposition this time round. On an oppressive, balmy Saturday evening the Hare & Hounds played host to the intriguing lineup of Tweak Bird and Wolves in the Throne Room, both of them playing their sophomore gigs for the Capsule ladies.


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May 20

Chrome Hoof @ Hare & Hounds, 20th May 2010

Chrome Hoof There was no way I was going to miss Chrome Hoof. Having released one of my favourite albums of the past few years with 2007’s ‘Pre-Emptive False Rapture’, which coupled with a rapturously received show at the old Bar Academy in December of that year–one of my favourite gigs ever – meant that despite landing from my summer holidays at 7pm, a few quid in a taxi drivers direction would be well worth it. Plus, for one night only, I was a jet-setting, globe-trotting Lester Bangs-esque journo for the night. Albeit it one sporting sunburnt man boobs.


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Feb 11

Cluster + Einstellung @ Birmingham Town Hall, 11th February 2010

Cluster In a moment of inspiration, that solid chap Mr. Aural Flea saw fit to purchase two tickets to this gig on the offchance I'd be able to make it! Make it? I moved every commitment aside for this. Cluster, with their roots in the late 60s, defined the roots of everything from experimental ambient to dance, with a mighty dollop of krautrock thrown-in for good measure!


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Jan 24

BARONESS + Taint @ Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, 24th January 2010

Baroness The Hare & Hounds was packed out. Before the gig started the bars were full to the brim, with all tickets for tonight’s show sold out and a mad rush was on to get one of the ten or so tickets kept back for the door. Baroness have been gathering momentum and sizable column inches recently, and this jam-packed turnout was testament to their ascendancy.


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Dec 19

Modified Toy Orchestra + PCM + Health & Efficiency + Una Corda + Stinky Wizzleteat @ VIVID - 19th December 2009

Modified Toy Orchestra For the final time this year, the Vivid warehouse in Digbeth housed another chapter in the celebrations of local promoters Capsule's tenth birthday. Tonights extravaganza was coupled with the renowned Capsule Christmas party which over the years has seen everything from West Brom math-rockers Solway Fifth setting the scene for years to come, to Pelican and Mistress laying waste to the Medicine Bar, to Jesus Lizard Icon David Yow wanting to take Beestung Lips’ Thom home with him.


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Dec 08

Lightning Bolt + Tweak Bird + Pete Prescription @ VIVID, Birmingham - 8th December 2009

Lightning Bolt Looking forward to another wet cold night in darkest Digbeth can only mean another Capsule show, this numbering three out of ten for their tenth birthday celebrations this month. Boasting a return to Birmingham for perennial favourites and sonic demolition artists Lightning Bolt the lineup was bolstered by two support acts spanning widely varying styles, yet with a shared love of volume.


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Dec 01

Monotonix + Beestung Lips + Esquilax + Cum Dogs @ VIVID, Birmingham - 1st December 2009

Monotonix And so the celebrations start. Capsule, Birmingham’s leading promoters are 10 years old, and from their humble beginnings at the start of the new millennium have now taken over Vivid, a warehouse space in Digbeth for a series of shows to commemorate.


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