The pale hordes who descend on Whitby for the biannual Goth Weekend may just have found the perfect soundtrack for their journey. With esteemed Cocteau Twins/This Mortal Coil producer John Fryer at the controls, York-based duo Mary and the Ram have come up with a modernist take on coffin-rattlers like Bauhaus, Love and Rockets and The Sisters of Mercy. Fryer is also famed for his […]
Monthly archives: January 2018
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*In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No38 Lost Weekend by Lloyd Cole And The Commotions. Formed in Glasgow in 1982, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions were responsible many of the most literary and erudite country-tinged pop songs of the decade. Led by the enigmatic Derbyshire-born Cole – a sort of nicer Morrissey – they made two brilliant […]
Father-daughter combos are as rare as hen’s teeth in the music industry, but for London-based duo SPC ECO, it’s clearly a formula that works. The pair recently celebrated their 10th anniversary as a band with the release of Calm – their 9th full studio album. Dad Dean Garcia is a seasoned veteran having formed one half of indie band Curve in the 1990s, before […]