The icarus line still the greatest punk band on the planet. Everyone else is just playing. @TheIcarusLine — Stevie Chick (@stevie_chick) October 29, 2013 Having written about the band on a number of occasions – most notably for The Quietus, his blog, and for his rejuvenated Loose Lips Sink Ships project – Stevie Chick once […]

Stevie Chick has a really interesting feature up on his site. It’s a reprint of a really old article he was involved in whilst being associated with the legendary (yet short-lived) ‘Loose Lips Sink Ships’ magazine. Read it here, and then tell all your friends. It was a tense show, unforgettable, perhaps the most fearsome […]

For a while now, I’ve been wondering as to whether I still had in my possession the original Kerrang article which announced Aaron North’s exit from The Icarus Line stable. Luckily, I was able to find it recently (in Kerrang #1044 February 19 2005), and am posting it here below: Also, and I think I […]

Somewhat related to The Icarus Line, but Don Devore (former guitarist of the band during the Penance Soiree and Black Lives at the Golden Coast years) is in a new band. According to his Wikipedia, Don Devore is now associated with ‘Collapsing Scenery’ and ‘Sick Feeling’. Sick Feeling released an album this year called Suburban […]

Here is a entry about Penance Soiree taken from Wikipedia. Penance Soiree was the second full-length album released by The Icarus Line. It was one of 2004’s most critically acclaimed releases, and it’s reputation has subsequently earned praise in various publications, including the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Due to infighting […]