One Man Underground’s favourite gig photos of 2024
One Man Underground trawls his phone to find ten of his favourite gig photos from 2024…
Cheese Or Glory, It’s Just Another Story - The Cooper’s Hill Cheese Roll 2024
People the world over gather annually in Gloucestershire, England to chase a wheel of cheese down a hill. One Man Underground answered the call…
My Corona: Rebellion 2024 Day 4
One Man Underground guides us through his final day at the Rebellion Festival, featuring a phenomenal lineup including The Satellites, Convict Class, Rumkicks, Blyth Power, The Dollheads, Meryl Streek, Johnny Echols and Love, and Andy Scott with The Sweet
“A Small Touch of Infanticide”: Supersonic 2024 Day 3
1MU’s Birmingham excursion comes to an end, with reviews and photos of Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Daisy Rickman, ØXN and more.
Pigs on Poppers: Supersonic 2024 Day 2
1MU’s adventures in Birmingham continue at Supersonic 2024, with reviews and photos of Senyawa, Emma Ruth Rundle, The Body & Dis Fig, and more.
The Triumph Of Women: Supersonic 2024 Day One
1MU arrives in Birmingham for the opening day of Supersonic 2024, where women are bringing the noise. Features reviews and photos of Gazelle Twin, Melt-Banana, Dame Area and more.
Tea and Blood: Rebellion 2024 Day 2
One Man Underground gives us day two of his Rebellion Punk Music Festival experience featuring TV Smith, Police Bastard, Smoking Gives You Big Tits, the KnuckleHeadz, The March Violets, Johnny Moped, Anti-Nowhere League, Toyah, and the Steve Ignorant Band, with photos from both 1MU and Dick Slaughter Photo.
“Thuggery, Bit of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Thuggery”: Rebellion 2024 Day 1
One Man Underground gives us his first day at the Rebellion Festival with photos by Dick Slaughter. Featuring The Meffs, Yur Mum, Animal of Anti Nowhere League, The Ramonas, The Subhumans, Lydia Lunch, The Dwarves, and Sham 69.
Sandwiches and bog roll: Rebellion 2024 Day 0
1MU arrives in Blackpool, and immediately becomes immersed in punk... and Covid?
A Tale of Two Sweets: Rebellion 2024 and Beyond
In the first of 1MU's Rebellion write-ups, he contemplates the curious, complicated history of glam-rock legends Sweet. Or is that The Sweet?
Brum The Noise - Supersonic Festival 2024 preview
Supersonic is widely regarded as one of the UK’s top small festivals. In Spite will be there…
Keeley Forsyth - Musical Theatre
When not acting on British telly, Keeley Forsyth is writing, recording and performing extraordinary neoclassical gothic ballads…
The Gurdy Stone: a rock review
The men behind The Pogues and The KLF know how to rock. Literally.
The God Of Hellfire brings you… costume changes
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown set the music world ablaze in 1968. 56 years later, does the flame still burn?
Tommy Wiseau - Jumping The (Big) Shark?
The “disaster artist” behind The Room has made a new film. The question is - is he in on the joke?
Solving the Goodiepal equation
Despite accusations of poisoning, Danish musician and thinker Goodiepal asked One Man Underground to introduce a documentary about him…
The Wisdom of JG Thirlwell, or how I learned to stop worrying and use pitch correction
When the man behind the music of Foetus, ‘Archer’ and ‘The Venture Bros.’ gives you advice, you should pay attention…
Dispatches from a frantic planet: the video essays of Stuart Millard
Pre-millenium British television was a lot weirder than you remember. One obsessive has dedicated his life to hilariously dissecting it for your pleasure…
Transcendence in Art Pop, with Pulp and Sparks
One Man Underground thinks reviewing gigs like these is pointless. So allow him instead to talk about the moments that made him lose himself…
“When her tw*t begins to twitch…” - The wretched birth of porn parody
One Man Underground thought he had seen the worst that cinema could possibly offer. Then he saw Bat Pussy…