Yearly archives: 2019
21 posts
"Gutted. Particularly the morning after the last show in Brighton. You’ve got a hangover and you’ve got no band - that was just a sense of emptiness really - that really is the end, what’s next?" Bruce Foxton on the break up of The Jam
"According to The Nolans - I gobbed on them. But I can’t recall that. It's hardly government changing politics is it? Gobbing on a Nolan. But they say I did it. It’s in their book, but I have no recollection of doing such a terrible thing," Skids frontman Richard Jobson on the band's appearance on Top if the Pops
"Brexit was all about creating an illusion of consensus for something that is negative for the country and most people in it, using lies and trolls, fake news, fake views," Folk Rocker and activist Tom Moriarty assesses the state of the nation.
Compass sees the Ummagma duo extending their range across multiple genres and influences to make a record which sounds both otherworldly and yet curiously familiar.
Standout track Psycho Erotic sees the duo at their most wanton, Snaith's bestial guitars like a wolf pawing at the floor, while Bach purrs "He gets me all fired up, and hot and hot!". Blimey, pass the smelling salts!
"It honestly was a Field Of Dreams moment … sort of ‘if you build it they will come’. The first two singers that said yes, and actually came to our studio to do vocalsm were Robin Zander and Al Jourgensen. Not a bad duo to start with!"
Yes you always know exactly what you're gonna get from the Sheffield crooner....SCREEEAW!! BALAAM!! DANANGANANG!! er, hang on a minute.... have I put on a Godfathers record by mistake?
