Some bits and bobs from over the long and odd history of Beat Motel just don’t fit into any neat category. So we dump that crap on this page.
The Beat Motel archives are vast and without order. If we happen upon something interesting while stumbling around the archives, we’ll shove up this page.
Music reviews
The Beat Motel (printed) zine random gallery
Sometimes we find bits and bobs in the archives that don”t need a whole article written for them. So we dump them here. It’s a bit of a meta miscellany. I was always bewildered that…
Beat Motel column headers
Back when Beat Motel was printed on actual paper we had columnists. Lots of columnists. We lost count, that’s how many we had. We recently found the storage folder where we kept the header images…
Puke Plates – Beat Motel zine
Originally published in Beat Motel issue 8. We used to publish lots of non-music related content. But this one is going in the music consumption section of this site because every grim story here was…
Beat Motel issue 6 letters page
Sometimes in Beat Motel zine I used to take great pleasure in publishing some of the letters and emails that I received. This looks so snotty with the gift of retrospect, but it is what…
Zines and the importance of poo
For many years I bought up zines whenever I saw them in my local independent record shops (hey, remember that concept?). I loved them, but to my mind at the time they seemed to portray…
Top Ten lyrics by The Replacements
Originally published in Beat Motel zine issue #1 many, many years ago. The Replacements Lyrics are some of the best lyrics I have ever heard. They appeal to me because above all they have a…
Beat Motel zine cover art gallery
Beat Motel was a zine that I published for a number of years and I was always quite proud of the fact I made a real effort with the cover art. Well to be honest…
Ipswich Venues – Ipswich Arts Centre
This list of Ipswich venues is archived from the Ipswich Arts Centre website which is now closed. NameCapacitySeatedStandingPub?Accessibility informationLinkCorn Exchange1000 standing800/900 seatedYesYesNoFully DDA compliantClick here…Council chambersMain chamber 180 seated or standingGallery 1 100 acoustic or…
Ipswich Arts Centre – The Petition
The petition list below is archived from the Ipswich Arts Centre website, which is now closed. John Skelt, I really don’t know where to start so I won’t repeat what has been written 1000 times…
How to get stage times for the Shellac ATP onto your smartphone calendar / agenda
Some lovely person (possibly @capt_cornflake) has created a Google Calendar with all the Shellac curated ATP Nightmare Before Christmas stage times on it, here’s how to get the times onto the calendar on your Android…
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Bands and promoters – make a bleedin’ effort!
This article originally appeared in ‘Issue Punk Zine’ number 62. Whenever I sit down to write a column I’m wary of coming across as some old bugger having a bit of a moan, which can…
Balls to the old punks!
Originally published in Lights Go Out issue #17… Now I don’t mean balls to all the old punks, I just wanted a snappy headline. I’m not talking about a particular age range either, I’m talking…
An Ipswich arts centre for live music? Nah…
My well-established gripe is that original live music provision in Ipswich is always overlooked when this town gets money for arts development. I know the reason is that bands are like little self-contained islands, in…
The Ugly Truth About Ipswich
The Ugly Truth About Ipswich is a compilation album that my record label (CornDog Records) put out in conjunction with local heroes Antigen Records. I raised the money for this album with a LOT of…
Beat Motel #9 in Zine World #29
Apparently issue #9 of my zine Beat Motel is reviewed in two concurrent issues of Zine World! See the previous post to this one for the other review.
Why zines are important.
Salford Zine Library asked me to film a short talking head bit for a documentary they’re putting together on zines. I shot this video when my daughter (Issy) was six days old, and needless to…
For those about to rock, we pray for you.
Me, a few years before my first gig. Originally published in ‘Lights Go Out’ issue 11, February 2011 Whenever folk talk about the first gig they went to it is assumed (by them) that they’ll…
MASON – From the core
MASON (yup, written in capitals) was a band formed by Martyn Peck (guitar), Dom Cattermole (drums), Simon Finbow (vocals) and myself (playing bass) a few years ago. Martyn wrote a couple of pretty astounding Black…
Beat Motel zine issue #10
The juice… Wow, we made it to the big ‘one-oh’! We’ve been sitting on this issue for a bit longer than we intended, but after getting ‘zine of the year’ in Big Cheese magazine and…
Metalocalypse – An introduction to brutality, Hanna-Barbera Style.
Originally published by AltSounds.com I’ve never been the worlds hugest death metal fan, in fact I’ve always thought it was all a bit silly, all that face paint and posturing seems a bit pantomime to…
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Prolapse (the band).
This prolapse article originally appeared in Beat Motel issue #6 (October 2006). This article about Prolapse wasn’t originally written to be an article for Beat Motel, it was in fact an email I was sending…
25 songs to play to a recently landed alien who has never heard earth music before.
I was recently in a pub having a fairly well lubricated* chat with a friend called Kevin who plays in a local band and I was astonished to find out the only big gig he…
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The full list of Miscellany
- 25 songs to play to a recently landed alien who has never heard earth music before.
- AGAINST ME! tour dates
- An Ipswich arts centre for live music? Nah…
- Balls to the old punks!
- Bands and promoters – make a bleedin’ effort!
- Beat Motel #9 in Zine World #29
- Beat Motel column headers
- Beat Motel issue 6 letters page
- Beat Motel Zine
- Beat Motel zine cover art gallery
- Beat Motel zine issue #10
- Chixdiggit UK Tour
- For those about to rock, we pray for you.
- HEAT and Music In The Park
- How to get stage times for the Shellac ATP onto your smartphone calendar / agenda
- Ipswich Arts Centre – The Petition
- Ipswich Venues – Ipswich Arts Centre
- Lagwagon Tour Dates
- MASON – From the core
- Metalocalypse – An introduction to brutality, Hanna-Barbera Style.
- Prolapse (the band).
- Puke Plates – Beat Motel zine
- Screen Break Video #001 | The Bluetones ‘If’
- Screen Break Video #002 | Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA) ‘Monsters in your parasol’
- Sleepless new websites
- Stretch Arm Strong Announce UK tour for January 2006
- Stretch Arm Strong UK tour dates
- The Beat Motel (printed) zine random gallery
- The Fall/ Horay for Milk
- The Ugly Truth About Ipswich
- Top Ten lyrics by The Replacements
- TOUR DATES No Use For a Name + Lawrence Arms
- Why zines are important.
- Zines and the importance of poo
