Category Archives: Music
Ghosts of the Dunedin Music Scene, by Das Phaedrus
Das Phaedrus live 2021
https://youtu.be/9X_42cwpFXw Das Phaedrus were the first band I was in, we played in 1990 and 1991, and again in 1994 and 1995. After that we were blown by the four winds to various corners of the globe but recently have found the three of us back in Dunedin. We played at the end of last …
Stray Light
billot · Stray Light
Bat Flu
https://youtu.be/dNNABc4rKEE At first it’s novelty. A chance to catch up on housework. Garden trimmers burst into life. Unwanted noise becomes reassurance, a signal of normality over the hedge. But the world’s grown strange beyond the letterbox. The Government prints money, gives it away. It’s early days: Cupboards still half full, accounts still in the …
Back on the road
Beast of the Hour
Machine Language by The Alpha Plan
In the Zone by the Alpha Plan
Your future is a junk bond loan, say monochrome media monotones datadumping grimbytes by paramilitary drone on the front step of your no deposit home. They own the bones that walk you round this horrordrome from when you’re small til when you’re grown and all your neural circuits blown whence your flesh is soft sweet …
Ambient Terror by the Alpha Plan
a doom pulse on the downbeat a scream loop on the repeat a third chance then you’re dead meat your face sweats wax with cold heat tribal thunder in the echo chamber of your heart your chest a hollow drum coming apart today is finished before you even start stay under cover if you’re even …
The Sphere
Once on, there is no way off. All paths will cross eventually (in theory), and gravity clings all to its stony lap. You often wonder how you got here, or got anywhere. The answer is never clear. You walk upon the sphere. The sphere looks outward, for its innards are only mineral and hot mud. …
Maxed Out in Keyland
A song and music video from The Alpha Plan
Dr Will Martin writes on the cyber punk poetry of Victor Billot
Critical analysis
Live one night only
Jazz and poetry spectacular
Victor Billot 