Indie Pop
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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 […]
The Primitives are back with their first new music since 2014 album Spin-O-Rama. Now signed to Madrid-based Elefant Records, the band have been riding a wave of nostalgia since their 2009 reunion.
It’s not often you get to talk to someone who’s had a number one single and double platinum album, had a song covered by David Bowie and who also just happens to be a fully qualified psychotherapist. So it was with some degree of trepidation I picked up the ‘phone to chat with Mark Nevin about his new solo album My Unfashionable […]
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.
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.
The minute I put on this EP I was transported back to the halcyon days of the mid-Eighties when digital watches were cool, mobile phones were the size of breeze blocks and jangly indie pop dominated John Peel’s Festive 50. Salient Braves‘ shambling sound is shot through with nostalgia, reviving the spirit of the ’80s for the […]