In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No29 Strange Fruit By Billie Holliday. Southern trees bear strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root / Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. So begins one of the most powerful anti-racism anthems, sung by perhaps […]
Yearly archives: 2016
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Barnsley indie band Salient Braves have released a new EP while looking for backing for the release of their debut album due out next year. Heavily influenced by ’80s Shambling bands, the ‘Braves hope the four-track EP will convince fans to help crowdfund the new album.
Less that a week after our interview with one C86 alumnus in The Wedding Present’s David Gedge, another of the bands on that hallowed cassette (ask your parents kids!) has come to our attention. The latest in our growing line of 2016 comeback stars (see also Khartomb and The Vapors) Mighty Mighty have just released their first new music in 28 years.
Kristin Hersh is an artist who inspires religious devotion on behalf of her fans, so what more appropriate venue for her than a church. We gathered like pilgrims in the pews of St John on Bethnal Green, as the Throwing Muses frontwoman delivered a solo sermon, replete with tales of spectres, prostitutes, drunks and sultry New Orleans nights.
In the annals of Indie rock, David Gedge is one of the last great survivors. While other great hopes and next big things crash and burn under the weight of major label pressure, or drug-fuelled excess, Gedge ploughs on, steering a singular, uncompromising course through the minefield of music biz pomposity.
What better antidote to the rapacious commercialism of Black Friday than a night out in Brixton with Savages? The O2 Academy show was the band’s biggest UK headlining performance to date and the packed house signalled that this was a band ready for the big leagues. Walking on to Leonard Cohen’s A Thousand Kisses Deep was a nice touch – a fitting […]
“Thing is, I don’t give a fuck what you think you know about me. it’s meaningless. I don’t know you. The film didn’t show me speaking in a sentence with 23 words in it and making perfect sense, which i can obviously do quite well.” Anton Newcombe is responding to a question about the 2004 documentary Dig! which contrasted the fortunes […]
Iggy Pop has teamed up with Kill Bill guitar hero Hotei for a new single Walking Through The Night. A dark tale of a stroll through the seamier side of Tokyo, it’s the latest cut from Hotei’s first international album Strangers, out now on Spinefarm Records. Iggy, who also worked with the Japanese on How The Cookie Crumbles, says the song is about ‘feeling alone, sexually […]
In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No28 Suzanne By Leonard Cohen. What the hell is going on with 2016? The curse has struck again with news of the passing of one of the few true musical poets, Leonard Cohen.
It’s easy to be snide and cynical about events like this – why should a bunch of so-called one-hit wonders deserve a headlining tour 35 years after their brief brush with fame? But the fact is – to a significant minority of people – The Vapors meant something and they still do. That’s why their London comeback […]