"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
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The vitriol has been dialled back a notch and some of the rougher edges sanded down, in what feels like a band discovering their own sound.
If you thought Brix and the Extricated were nowt but a glorified Fall tribute band, well think again.
With their futuristic sound and frontman Mike Score’s outlandish haircut, A Flock of Seagulls were as synonymous with the eighties as yuppies, ET and DeLorean cars. They achieved rapid fame – perhaps too rapid in retrospect, burning brightly but briefly – the original quartet releasing just two albums before imploding in a whirl of breakdowns and inter-band rivalries. But now, […]
XTC fans have been rather spoiled with new product of late, after years of relative inactivity since the band ground to a halt in 2006, there have been a wave of re-issues, a feature-length documentary and, at the end of last year, the first EP from TC&I. For the benefit of anyone not living in the XTC universe, TC&I […]
It’s easy to be snide and cynical about events like this – why should a bunch of so-called one-hit wonders deserve a headlining tour 35 years after their brief brush with fame? But the fact is – to a significant minority of people – The Vapors meant something and they still do. That’s why their London comeback […]
A few weeks ago we featured the return of cult indie band Khartomb after 31 years – a rocket from the crypt we thought could never be surpassed. But now in this weird year of 2016 – an even more unlikely event has hit the headlines – The Vapors are back!
In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No22 Hit Me With You Rhythm Stick by Ian Dury and The Blockheads A genuine undisputed classic from the late, great Ian Dury and his wonderfully talented backing band.
