Lou Reed
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The whole thing sounds like the soundtrack to a groovy ‘60s movie that never was, eastern and psychedelic melodies jostling for space in the reverberating rhythms.
Funny, open and engaging, Daniel Ash is not quite what you might expect from the man behind some of the darkest and most experimental music of the past 40 years. The founder of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets is back on the road with new ensemble Poptone and teasing the prospect of new music and a European tour. Featuring the father-daughter […]
*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 […]
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 […]
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), […]
I always felt there was something a bit emperor’s new clothes about Antony and the Johnsons. There was obvious merit in the music, but I could never quite understand why the likes of Lou Reed were so enamoured. Then came 4 Degrees and even this old philistine had to sit up and take notice.