Petrol Factory is the quaking barrier between the end of the end of time and the end of the world. It is an oil repository in the harbour, watching the containers, navy and cruise ships arrive and depart. A median point where everything is twisted together. Oil poisons the bay. Factories chug out iron. Nothing points more to extinction than the monolith of the Petrol Factory on the horizon. Exploring surveillance, brutal policing, modernism and mechanophilia, Petrol Factory is a passage through EBM, post punk and goth. Often improvised and never quite the same, Petrol Factory attemp… read more
Petrol Factory is the quaking barrier between the end of the end of time and the end of the world. It is an oil repository in the harbour, watching t… read more
Petrol Factory is the quaking barrier between the end of the end of time and the end of the world. It is an oil repository in the harbour, watching the containers, navy and cruise ships … read more
One of the Irish undergrowth’s most febrile live acts, Rising Damp, makes music to be shook to. We first heard her at Banger Cliff, on the Sunday of Open Ear 2019, when she played an appropriately head-scrambling live set of post-punk and EBM. The Dublin artist’s effect-soaked howls and propulsive rhythms injected a final burst of frenetic energy into the festival’s final day, and presented an uncompromising performer most comfortable in the wide-eyed buzz of the rave. Petrol Factory offers the most song-led work Rising Damp has produced to date, while clinging to its tough electron… read more
One of the Irish undergrowth’s most febrile live acts, Rising Damp, makes music to be shook to. We first heard her at Banger Cliff, on the Sunday of Open Ear 2019, when she played an approp… read more
One of the Irish undergrowth’s most febrile live acts, Rising Damp, makes music to be shook to. We first heard her at Banger Cliff, on the Sunday of Open Ear 2019, when she played an appropriately head-scrambling live set of post-punk … read more