Scott McKeating

Scott McKeating lives in the UK and loves noise/ drone/ youknowwhatImean. He has written for Dusted, the now-defunct Stylus Magazine, brainwashed and Drowned in Sound. He is currently a busy bee as Editor at Large of Rock-A-Rolla magazine and contributor to magazines like Zero Tolerance and Plan B. In his spare time he singlehandedly and skillfully masterminds the Bells Hill label.

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latest reviews by Scott McKeating....
Scott's lifetime average review-rating is 7.8
Andreas Brandal "Sunken Gardens" Another stellar outing from one of Norway's best... rated 8/10 (8 September, 2010)
Iain Campbell "Absolutely the Best ABBA since ABBA" Another fine mess... rated 8/10 (1 September, 2010)
Wrest "Live at the CSV" Not just another odd field recording album... rated 7/10 (18 August, 2010)
Haunted Trails / Blue Queen "split" Just say yes... rated 8/10 (4 August, 2010)
Alistair Crosbie "Learning To Draw" Essential listening... rated 10/10 (9 June, 2010)
Gish/Perry "I'm Afraid I Ate Too Much Butter As A Youth " Two out of 3 ain't bad... rated 6/10 (9 June, 2010)
Small Things On Sundays "More" Interesting album on Striate Cortex... rated 8/10 (9 June, 2010)
Fougou "Atlantis (For John Michell)" Mystic and futuristic... rated 9/10 (2 June, 2010)
Alistair Crosbie "Scarlett Dies" Stunning mini-CDr... rated 9/10 (26 May, 2010)
Bong "Bethmoora" Heavy shit... rated 9/10 (21 April, 2010)
Jonathan Canady "The Mind” Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" An odd, violent ride... rated 7/10 (7 April, 2010)
The Radiation Line "EP4" Another incredible self-released gem... rated 9/10 (7 April, 2010)
Plastic Crimewave "Fire In The Whole" What can I say, I love Plastic Crimewave... rated 8/10 (10 March, 2010)
Tex La Homa "Driebergen Zeist" Take a trip..... rated 9/10 (3 March, 2010)
Inca Ore / Tovah Olson / Smack Music 7 / Lexie Mountain "split" Nice one, but limited... rated 7/10 (17 February, 2010)
latest features by Scott McKeating....
Ali Robertson / Giant Tank Based in Edinburgh, Ali Robertson has been running the Giant Tank label since 2006 and carving out a niche for lo-fidelity weirded noise... (21 April, 2010)
SAROS SAROS is a one-off collaboration between Newcastle Upon Tyne’s Surface Area Dance Theatre and Sheffield’s The Hunter Gracchus... (14 April, 2010)
Locrian Chicago’s Locrian have just dropped their first vinyl LP, “Territories”, and it’s a split release across 4 excellent labels – any of which alone would be a strong enough indicator of the records quality... (7 April, 2010)
Diogenes With the commercial Music world having fully adopted the digital revolutio0n and its working practices, the experimental underground seems to be hesitating on the step before the brink... (17 February, 2010)
PRMNT Vibes PRMNT Vibes (Permanent Vibes for the vowel lovers out there) is a Newcastle upon Tyne, UK based live music promotion headed up by Richard McFarlane. .. (9 December, 2009)
The Radiation Line Talk about out of touch. The Radiation Line are already onto their 6th release, and I’m just catching up... (7 October, 2009)
Black Sea Of Trees The intense atmosphere of ancient forests, ghostly guitar drone, haunted weather and butoh inspired movement - A unique 5.1 installation. .. (23 September, 2009)
Stephen Lawrie Stephen Lawrie has headed up The Telescopes since their 1988 debut... (2 September, 2009)
BONG BONG are a Newcastle upon Tyne guitar, drum, bass/vocals and sitar fuelled quartet... (24 June, 2009)
The Gloom The strange and contradictory world of The Gloom... (1 May, 2009)
Eyeballs Eyeballs is the beautiful and SLOW drone vision of Mr. Richard Dawson... (18 March, 2009)
Vomir Harsh Noise Wall is an idea that keeps cropping up in whispered conversations... (25 February, 2009)
At War With False Noise It’s starting to look like Glasgow is quickly becoming the UK’s hub of noise/drone/avant-uh-huh, fuck London…it sucks... (12 February, 2009)
Our Love Will Destroy The World Birchville Cat Motel is over... (22 October, 2008)
Blackest Rainbow Straight outta the Metal midlands comes Joe Blanchard’s Blackest Rainbow label. .. (6 August, 2008)

latest blogposts by Scott McKeating....
Trembling Bells Uk Dates 2nd October- The Vortex, London (8pm, £6) 3rd October- Jericho Tavern, Oxford (8pm, £5) 4th October- The Bell, Bath (1pm, £5) 5th October- Tin Angel, Co... (13 September, 2009)
Trembling Bells Euro Tour Dates The Alex Neilson helmed, and very beautiful, Trembling Bells d out on a brief August European tour... (4 August, 2009)
Andrew Paine - Weekend World Just to let you know that the 2nd Bells Hill label release is now available... (11 November, 2008)
BH003 Eyeballs - 'Seal-Skin Satellite' Another CD-R label by a Foxy Digitalis writer - HELL NO... (6 October, 2008)
Alex Neilson's Trembling Bells onTour Alex Neilson’s (Jandek, Taurpis Tula, C93, Six Organs etc) newly minted song-based group are out on a brief UK Summer tour... (19 June, 2008)
 
 
26 September, 2010
The New Foxy Digitalis Check out the new site.... feature :: by Brad Rose

8 September, 2010
Ernesto Diaz-Infante Since the mid-nineties, composer/guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante has been releasing some of the most boldly unclassifiable and uncompromising music that spans an unbelievably wide range of sounds... feature :: by David Perron

Horaflora Horaflora is San Francisco-based musician Raub Roy. .. feature :: by Mike Pursley

1 September, 2010
Bis auf’s Messer Berlin’s Bis auf’s Messer emporium has all bases covered. From two rooms in the Eastern borough of Friedrichshain, Robert and Stefan run a store and a mailorder operation, they organize gigs, and not one, but two labels... feature :: by Jan-Arne Sohns

Neon Marshmallow Fest Recap More so than perhaps any festival on the radar, the lineup itself was truly the draw of Chicago’s inaugural Neon Marshmallow Fest, the four-day cornucopia of experimental music of all stripes.... feature :: by Travis Bird
15 September, 2010
Lucky 13 Jani Hellén's 13,000,000th dream.. podcast :: by Jani Hellén

10 August, 2010
Early Women Composers A collection of tracks from some of the best female composers this century... podcast :: by Brad Rose

5 August, 2010
Hobo Cult #1 First set of tunes from the man behind Hobo Cult/Hobo Cubes... podcast :: by Frank Ouellette

15 July, 2010
LAFMS Podcast #1 A selection of tracks from the might Los Angeles Free Music Society.. podcast :: by Andrew Murdock Livingston

3 July, 2010
ALPHACAST A collection of songs from the mighty Colin Ward AKA Alphabets in celebration of the ALPHABOX release... podcast :: by Brad Rose
 
 
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