For a little over an hour on a cold October Sunday a packed O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire was taken back in time to 1981 – when Dallas was TV gold and leather ties, wedge haircuts and ultra-thin ponytails were all the rage. Margaret Thatcher was in power, there were riots on the streets of Brixton and Toxteth and a […]
Yearly archives: 2016
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In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No27 Shine On By The House of Love. A soaring alternative anthem, Shine On is without doubt one of the strongest indie debut 45s of all time. A statement of intent, it was the first of a trio of superb singles that firmly established The House of Love as the band […]
Happy Robots boss and one time Peel’s Festive 50 fave Rodney Cromwell releases a new 5-track EP on November 11. The Fax Message Breakup EP follows Cromwell’s well-received debut album Age of Anxiety and features exclusive remixes of album cuts Happy Robot and Cassiopeia.
A dream-like and at times nightmarish ride, Kristin Hersh’s new album is an extraordinarily multi-layered work that’s tough to de-code. It’s a wilfully oblique mosaic of half-realised memories of past events and emotions.
Savages are to follow up their rampaging summer festival performances with their biggest London headline show to date at London’s O2 Academy. The double Mercury Music Prize nominees will play the 5,000-capacity Brixton venue on November 25. It comes at the end of a big year for the Anglo-French post-punk outfit, which saw the release of their […]
Thirty years on from the release of the first Throwing Muses EP Chains Changed Kristin Hersh is showing no signs of slowing down. Just six months after the release of the Bath White mini-album with power trio 50FOOTWAVE, she’s back with a new solo 24-track double CD on which she plays all the instruments.
In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No26 She Don’t Use Jelly By The Flaming Lips. I first encountered this song many years ago while attending the wonderful Liss Ard festival in Skibbereen, Ireland. I’d gone to watch three of my all-time favourites; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (while Blixa Bargeld was still on board), […]
Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls drummer Nigel Powell is moving centre stage to tour the latest album by his Sad Song Co. solo project. Multi-instrumentalist Powell, who’s also sticksman with Oxford’s Dive Dive, will be showcasing SSC’s upcoming album in amber. Recorded in just five days, with the aid of Radiohead engineer Graeme Stuart and producer George Shilling of My Bloody Valentine fame, in […]
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 […]
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, […]