In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No25 Lazy Sunday by Small Faces. An innovative, stylish and versatile band Small Faces, never seem to get quite the attention they deserve. Lazy Sunday is a knockabout knees-up taken from their ambitious, psychedelic concept album Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake – a record so peculiarly English that it stayed at No1 […]
Monthly archives: September 2016
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A sultry steamy night in West London provided the perfect backdrop as Oakland’s finest Fantastic Negrito brought a touch of California to W12. The master showman romped through a short but sweet set, which encompassed a bewildering range of genres and styles. There were shades of James Brown and Jimi Hendrix, a soupçon of Al Green and a smidgeon of Prince as Negrito, real name Xavier Dphrepaulezz, […]
New albums by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds are always an event but the release of Skeleton Tree comes with more baggage than most. For those who don’t know the sad story by now, recording was savagely interrupted by the tragic death of Cave’s son Arthur in a cliff fall near the family’s home in Brighton. The fraught recording process […]
From street hustler to pseudo student, illegal nightclub impresario to black roots troubadour – Fantastic Negrito is the ultimate performance artist. Since leaving home at 12, it could be said that his whole life has been a performance of defiance, reinvention and now perhaps redemption. Fantastic Negrito is the latest in a long line of personae, nom de plumes, pen names […]