People Watching

You know the times you spend just looking at people in the street or on trains and busses and wondering who they are? I’m talking about the times you find yourself sat on the fountain in Stevenage or using the underground at King’s X and you look up at a stranger and find yourself wondering [...]

LIVE | Sonic Boom 6 and The Skints

THE REBIRTH OF SKA PUNK?
Relentless Garage, Highbury and Islington, 15/10/09.
I’D HEARD good things about the Skints from various whispers around town but never actually heard them until tonight and I just wish I’d seen them sooner.
With everything based around a modern rude-boi reggae style the band have a real slinky feel to them with [...]

LIVE | Weightloss & Friends at Club 85, Hitchin

TOP 10 | Dan Nicholls’ albums of 2009

Our very own falcon-haired gadabout, singer with Hitchin ska-core legends Weightloss, and purveyor of all things astral lets us in on his top 10 albums of the year so far…
10. RANCID – LET THE DOMINOES FALL

An earnest attempt from these now old-skoolers. Worthy of a good few catchy sing-alongs!
9)      Chase & Status – More [...]

At last, we have a domain name – ROGUEMUSIC.CO.UK in the house!

We know it’s been a bit quiet round these parts lately, but believe us, it’s been bloody hectic up at Rogue Towers these last few weeks. A site revamp, a new event, the podcast, even a documentary and comic strip – we haven’t stopped guv really we ‘aven’t.
Anyway, just so you know, the cumbersome http://www.roguemag.wordpress.com [...]

We’ve been Steppin’

Just a little dubstep mini-production we at Rogue have been mucking about with. We’d like to hear your productions too – send em our way, and if they’re decent they’ll appear on the up and coming Rogue Radio show!

Play that funky music, white boy

Whitest Boy Alive

Rules
(Bubbles)
Erlend Øye’s Whitest Boy Alive may sound like the worst band name to surface in recent years, but the self-deprecatory moniker seems somehow apt when listening to this album. A laidback funk album made by a skinny bespectacled Norwegian and his band just seems plain wrong, especially when nasty comparisons to Jamiroquai or [...]

Don’t forget your CHIP & PIN!

Lunch time, Monday 11 May 2009, for all its routine niceties; Red Leicester and tomato sandwich, salt ‘n’ vinegar crisps and a water, came with a hint of realisation.
Not something you can sprinkle on sliced, fried potato, bag-up and win a prize for, mind. But certainly a familiar flavour of months passed. I’d wandered into [...]

Giving Blood pt. 2

I gave blood again yesterday and after a few hours took the plaster off. Walking into Sainbury’s, I handed over the money for my hummus and the woman behind the counter recoiled in utter horror at the track mark on my arm. Instantly she believed I was a heroin user! Why are we not at [...]

Who wouldn’t want to be saved? – Rogue Party – HEROES AND VILLAINS!

Hey we’ve got another Rogue Party – and this time it’s at the legendary Club 85…!
Get yer cheap tickets online: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/49860
Or see below for more details.
GENERAL BOVINE & THE JUSTICE FORCE 5 – http://www.myspace.com/thejusticeforce5

FREUDSTEIN – http://www.myspace.com/freudsteinofficial

PLUS: We can exclusively reveal that the Mystery Guest will be the [...]