6 October 2026
“Nine Inch Nails is often called ‘industrial’. But I actually
here a lot of funk. Just listen to “Closer” and the foundation could be Stevie Wonder or George Clinton. Listening to Nine
Inch Nails feels like hearing the truth, so it get you abit closer
to God.”
Full feature in Rolling Stone.
1 October 2026
Scottish mavericks MOGWAI celebrate their 30th anniversary.
To mark the remarkable event they will release a career-spanning compilation,
with a total of 28 tracks, baptized HAPPY TEARS: THE STORY OF MOGWAI on
8 January 2027.
It will feature songs from across their career, and
also rarities from across their discography.
Tracklist and pre-order info here.
They will also include a brand new song, called UNDERGROUND
performed with no none other than your punk dog IGGY POP.
Pop: “I’ve always liked Mogwai. The opening of the track reminded me of the crushing modern loneliness. The sung vocal, felt like it was made for someone who is pissed off and doesn’t mind saying so.”
Credit: Steve Gullick
Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai‘s guitarist/vocalist): “Hearing the Stooges had been a life-changing moment for me. Their self-titled album was pretty much my bible. It was druggy, dumb and completely primal. I’d never heard anything quite like it and even though that
band had pretty much fallen apart by the time I was born, I grew to love the three Stooges albums as much as any music I’d heard.”
Now let’s go to business. Here comes their lust for life
collaboration UNDERGROUND. A torrid motherrocker.
A happy song for happy people.
4 September 2026
“Lemmy is gone, Bowie is gone. Iggy is the last of the one-and-onlys. Everybody should take a knee for Iggy. He derseves it.”
Iggy & Homme with a lot of lust for life
Photo on top: Josh Homme FB
A couple of days ago, the eternal rock passenger IGGY POP performed
a part of his set at Mosswood Meltdown Festival Oakland in a cage.
Dead Kennedys‘ frontman Jello Biafra was also present and took some photos.
4 January 2026
The moment Iggy found his lust for life.
He still wants to be your dog.
Where: Wembley Stadium, London
When: 3 August 2025
Biblical.
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Where: Lokerse Feesten, Belgium
When: 5 August 2025
Still a dog with lust for life.
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Who: Post-punk misfits
from Brighton, UK
Where: Wintercircus in Ghent, Belgium.
When: 23 November 2025
Flabbergasting.
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Who: Future guitar pop
stars from Australia.
Where: Charlatan, Ghent, Belgium
When: 12 November 2025
Pop bliss.
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Who: British shoegaze celebs.
Where: L’Aeronef, Lille, France
When: 23 April 2025
Dreams in motion.
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Who: Oklahoma‘s pyschedelic
fairytale eccentrics.
Where: Roma, Antwerp, Belgium.
When: 30 May 2025
Surreal.
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Band: MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Who: Welsh rock and pop heroes.
Where: Rock Zottegem Festival, Belgium
When: 12 July 2025
Melancholic pop manics.
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Band: HINDS
Who: Spanish guitar pop sheros.
Ecstatic.
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Who: Welsh noizz legends.
Where: Botanique Festival, Brussels, Belgium
When: 16 May 2025
Chop! Chop! Chop!
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Band: PANIC SHACK
Who: Welsh indie pop punk Amazons.
Where: Trix, Antwerp, Belgium
When: 19 November 2025
Party! Party! Party!
All photos by Turn Up The Volume
On the seventh day – 5 years ago – TOYAH and her beloved King Crimson
husband ROBERT FRIPP started their infamous Sunday Lunch Sessions
as a fun pastime while being locked up in their kitchen due to that shit
coronavirus.
It rapidly became a success story, and the pair
hardly missed a beat on Sundays ever since.
Yesterday, they did their thing with Iggy Pop‘s 1986 track
Real Wild Child (Wild One). Check out their hilarious take.
TOYAH/ROBERT
IGGY POP
8 August 2025
Last Monday, at Lokerse Feesten in Belgium, the 78-year-old IGGY POP
was sandwiched between Irish adult kicks The Undertones, old punk roses
The Damned and the legendary bollocks named Sex Pistols fronted, not by
Johnny Forgotten, as you all should know by now, but by podium animal and
rattlesnake Frank Carter.
A though just popped up: if you add up the age of all those guys
individually, what would be the outcome, one or two centuries?
Age is just a number, that’s what all those old-timers (mind you, Pop had some young(er) musicians to back him up) showed us. Over the years, age results in craftsmanship, stage presence and live experience.
Close your eyes, imagine that only 18-year-olds were there on that podium, you certainly would tell your mates, who weren’t interested in so-called has-beens, that you witnessed some of the best new sharp-cutting punk bands in ages. Yes, perception is a weird, misleading mindfucker. Of course, they would laugh their tits off. Fuck ’em.
They didn’t see Iggy Pop. I did, along with 10.000 jacked-up people (a colorful mix of
3 generations). He was just PHENOMENAL, backed by a PHENOMENAL band (that
always helps, of course) featuring two fabulous guitarists, Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ Nick Zinner
and Las Nubes‘ Ale Campos, badass bassist Matt Sweeney , bulletproof drummer Urian Hackney (The Armed, Rough Francis), a trumpet and trombone player and a keyboardist.
The loudest artillery I ever saw him perform with.
The earthshaking wall-of-raw-power sound Iggy‘s troops developed for the full 65 minutes (long live short in-your-face festival sets) was no less than jaw-dropping. Of course, when
I tell you that half of the set were acid-doped Stooges classics it explains a lot about the huge amount of decibels that shook the whole site. Add blockbusters The Passenger, Lust For Life and Nightclubbing and you should know by now that we all got a mind-blowing night.
The unquestionable star was that skinny man in the middle who, despite a severely
limp left leg, moves like a hungry hyena, leaves the stage to meet and greet his adoring fans, and most of all, whose iconic spit and sneer voice still has the immense capability to dominate the whole rock jamboree.
Age is a number when you are the Godfather of Punk. He left everything, just
everything on the floor, to entertain the crazy crowd. Respect! Respect! Respect!
Below here, some fan footage of ‘I wanna Be Your Dog’
Not great quality but I guess you got the idea of the
slam-bang moment.
SETLIST
T.V. Eye
(The Stooges)
Raw Power
(The Stooges)
I Got a Right
(The Stooges)
Gimme Danger
(The Stooges)
The Passenger
Lust for Life
Death Trip
(The Stooges)
I Wanna Be Your Dog
(The Stooges)
Search and Destroy
(The Stooges)
Down on the Street
(The Stooges)
1970
(The Stooges)
Some Weird Sin
Frenzy
Nightclubbing
Modern Day Rip Off
Punkrocker
All live photos shot and edited by Turn Up The Volume.
