About Dan Bull
London.
Likes: Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, Prince Charles Cinema, Duran Duran
Dislikes: Soreen, All-hits setlists, "I liked them before everyone else..."
It may be a lazy game, but there’s something enjoyable about self-debating which two artists could have created a bonny, new sound due to an unresponsible night of making sweet music. Had those drunken parents been Joy Division and Bombay…
Ahead of a UK tour next year, including stops at the Royal Albert Hall and Leeds First Direct Arena, Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott take to the stage of a much more intimate Electric Ballroom in Camden, as part of…
What brought along the current country revival? Mr. Mumford gifting his son a banjo? Ms. Parton’s triumphant Sunday slot at Glastonbury? TV series Nashville (telling the story of fading and rising country stars in the genre’s home)? Either way, Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire…
Putting aside his self confessed use of hair transplants and laced-weaves, Gary Numan looks amazing for a 57 year old man who has spent the last 36 years on tour. Head banging and writhing as he does on stage like a man…
Rating: Nancy & Lee, Dolly & Kenny… certain male and females vocals were designed to go together; Paul & Jacqui belong near the top of that list. As the voices of The Beautiful South (thankfully they don’t have had that…
When their first album together in fourteen years was only kept from entering at number one by new releases from Coldplay and Michael Jackson, it’s fair to say that it was a surprise all round. “Never in a million years…
Rating: As a member of Kraftwerk during their most musically rich period, Wolfgang Flür played a helping hand in creating the iconic beats that lay the foundations for their robotic/man-made sound; so much so that in 1973 he (alongside band…
When a-ha bowed out in 2010, with their wittily titled Ending On A High Note Tour, the decision was commendable for a number of reasons. Primarily, because there was truth in the title; having recently celebrated their highest charting album…
Rating: Not quite the West End-Sunny Afternoon tie-in that it would appear, Sunny Afternoon: The Very Best Of The Kinks combines the original songs featured in Ray Davies’ hit jukebox musical, together with hand-picked tracks he feels fits the mood…
Rating: Originally released as a separate album and VHS, this Madstock collection brings together the CD and DVD to celebrate perhaps one of the most criminally ignored live music events of our time. This is their Spike Island or Knebworth;…