Bo Ningen
Live Review: Bo Ningen / Lunch Money Life – The Sound House, Dublin 09.06.2022
Japanese/London based noise rock outfit came to Dublin to play The Sound House with support from London guys Lunch Money Life. Heading tonight I have to admit being a little apprehensive of the support with the mention of Jazz, but man there was nothing to worry about, ok there might be a tinge of jazz …
Say Psych: Album Review: Bo Ningen – Sudden Fictions
Meaning ‘Stick Man’ in Japanese, Bo Ningen are a London-based four-piece alternative rock band. Though they come from Gunma, Tajimi, Nishinomiya, and Tokyo in Japan, they coalesced in London. Two met one another at a gig in 2006 and first formed Bo Ningen as a duo, later joined by the other two members. With three studio …
Track: Bo Ningen – Minimal
London based Japanese band Bo Ningen have been steadily evolving their cathartic noise rock statements into something more expansive and diverse over the last few years. In fact even at their most Melt Banana they have always injected some melodic psyche overtones and a feel for song structure into their music. Now after three LPs …
Say Psych: News: Bo Ningen sign to Alcopop! Records for fourth album & Share first track ‘B.C.’
Alcopop! Records have announced that they have signed London based Japanese alternative-rockers Bo Ningen and will release their fourth studio album Sudden Fictions in the Spring. To celebrate the signing, the band have revealed their new single ‘B.C.’ which comes from the forthcoming LP and it will be released on limited edition clear 7”. It …
Say Psych: Live Review: Astral Festival, Bristol 06.07.2019
Astral Festival (FKA Bristol Psych Fest), presented by Stolen Body Records, is back for its 6th year and BSM has made the journey south to check it out. Over the past six years the festival has grown from a 50 capacity room to a daylong event over three Bristol venues; SWX, The Lanes and Rough Trade. …
News: Black Lips Billed To Headline Fluffer Pit Party
If getting deaf and sweaty at a rock & roll warehouse party isn’t your idea of a great Saturday night out, then read no further. Atlanta’s hottest leather-clad garage rock exports, the Black Lips, are billed to headline Fluffer Records‘s latest Pit Party. In true squat rave style, the secret East London location isn’t revealed until the day of the …
Preview: Detestival (curated by The Wet Nuns)
For me it wasThe Elephants. It was somewhere in Denmark, and they were Danish. They were (outrageously) below the bill than the band I was in, and so I wandered out to watch them, and was instantly blown away. On my return, the first things I did was buy their album, bang onto everyone I …