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Author: Lee Beamish

Julie Christmas @ Portals Festival 2025 – Photo by Lee Beamish
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Portals Festival 2025 – Sunday

22nd December 202522nd December 2025 Lee Beamish Codices, EartH Hackney, Exxasens, Julie Christmas, Lys Morke, Mouse On The Keys, Peach, Portals Festival, Spurv, The Fierce And The Dead

It’s a perfect Sunday morning weather-wise as we enter day two of Portals Festival 2025, it’s the 25th May, and

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Kalandra @ Portals Festival 2025 – Photo by Lee Beamish
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Portals Festival 2025 – Saturday

22nd December 202522nd December 2025 Lee Beamish Black Aleph, CLT DRP, EartH Hackney, I Hear Sirens, Joliette, Kalandra, Long Distance Calling, Oavette, Portals Festival, Thot, World Coda

So, here we are, it’s Saturday 24th May 2025, and we are in London, well Hackney to be precise, at

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Review: kariti ‘Still Life’

18th December 202518th December 2025 Lee Beamish Ambient, kariti, Lay Bare Recordings

Way back in late 2023, just as Christmas was rearing its yearly apocalypse on all sense and morality, I was

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Review: Anna von Hausswolff ‘Iconoclasts’

9th December 20259th December 2025 Lee Beamish Anna von Hausswolff, Avant-Garde, Neo Classical, Year0001

So here we are, the last remaining weeks of 2025, and just when I thought I had wrapped up my

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Review: Frayle ‘Heretics & Lullabies’

21st November 202521st November 2025 Lee Beamish Doom, Frayle, Gothic, Napalm Records

Having been a fan of Frayle for the last few years, when the opportunity came up recently to review the

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Review: IAN ‘Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!’

17th October 202517th October 2025 Lee Beamish Human Worth, Ian, Noise-Rock, Post-Metal, Post-Rock

Holy fuckin’ Moly, it’s IAN!! The Band!!! This is the statement that should be on everyone’s lips when becoming aware

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Review: Lowrider ‘Ode To Io’ [25th Anniversary Reissue]

8th October 20258th October 2025 Lee Beamish Blues Funeral Recordings, Lowrider, Stoner

In all my time of loving heavy music, if ever there was a band I wished I had known about

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Review: Nero Kane ‘For The Love, The Death And The Poetry’

3rd October 20253rd October 2025 Lee Beamish Americana, Nero Kane, Subsound Records

So here we are, well into the second half of 2025, and it would seem that the world is well

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Review: Stoned Jesus ‘Songs To Sun’

1st October 20251st October 2025 Lee Beamish Heavy Rock, Season Of Mist, Stoned Jesus

Back in 2023, I had the opportunity to review the newest album by one of my elite selection of bands,

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Review: GAUPA ‘Fyr’

24th September 202524th September 2025 Lee Beamish Alternative, GAUPA, Magnetic Eye Records, Prog, Psych

Back in November of 2022, I was having a conversation with one of my Instagram friends, and the topic of

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Review: Årabrot ‘Rite Of Dionysus’

22nd September 202522nd September 2025 Lee Beamish Alternative, Americana, Årabrot, Dalapop, Noise-Rock

Having only discovered Årabrot in the last few years, one thing that’s always struck me is the evolution of their

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