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Say Psych: Best Live Albums of 2016
OK here’s the thing. I’ve never been a massive fan of live albums. I love going to gigs and I love listening to records, but records of gigs have never particularly been my bag. Until this year that is, because there have been a series of live releases this year that have just blown me …
Say Psych: Live, 2016 Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia
It is doubtful, even in the reified levels of psych music fans, that Keita Ise and Njål Clementsen are two names that easily trip off the tongue. Yet trip is exactly what these two guys sent me on at the latest instalment of the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, now in its fifth year, held …
Say Psych: Album Review, Different Sun by Electric Eye
Norwegian quartet Electric Eye are one of those bands who have been on my radar for some time. I very much enjoyed the band’s debut album ‘Pick-up, Lift-up, Space, Time’ from 2013, especially ‘Tangerine’ which has made it onto countless playlists of mine. The band is now very much back and centre of my thoughts …
Live Review: Eindhoven Psych Lab – Day 2
Day 2, (see Day 1 here), of Eindhoven Psych Lab commenced with a leisurely breakfast, fit for a king, courtesy of the Hampshire Hotel – Crown Eindhoven. Offered as part of a combined early booking event ticket, it epitomises the organisers’ flawless attention to detail. This is the second year I have had the pleasure of staying in this …
Live Review: Eindhoven Psych Lab, Day 1, Effenaar- 05.06.2015
“psyche/ˈsʌɪki/via Latin from Greek psukhē ‘breath, life, soul”… As the fundamental factors for any psychedelic experience are defined by set, setting and dosage – the anticipation enveloping this sophomore, 2015mg Effenaar event, was tangibly palpable. “The nature of the experience depends almost entirely on set and setting. Set denotes the preparation of the individual, including his personality …