Neal X, one-man-razor-riff of sci-fi-future-rock cause celebres Sigue Sigue Sputnik talks working with Giorgio Moroder, enduring Stock Aitken and Waterman, demanding the impossible, being endorsed by Bowie, skyscraper quiffs, adding glam(our) to bleak Britain, new projects and why Sputnik will…
In part two of our interview with The Stranglers, Gigslutz discuss martial arts, a United States of Europe and life on other planets with bassist JJ Burnel. How sick is Baz of the “new boy” tag? (Baz Warne joined as…
Defying all labels and categories, The Stranglers have, for over 40 years, resolutely maintained their own unique positon within the music world, releasing 17 studio albums and 23 hit singles. Bassist JJ Burnel talks about surviving and confounding the music…
“I got a BRIT award… I got a BRIT Award… No surrender!” Jason Williamson, ‘McFlurry’ – Sleaford Mods Following the BAFTAs, the Oscars, and the ‘anti-establishment’ NME’s Bratz, it’s ‘awards’ season again! Who’s worthy? Who’s got a noose? For the…
Others employ a loop or recurring motif throughout the whole album which can be repetitive and tiresome. The best enable the imagination to run free and the mind to wander with the titles as a guide. Johann Johansson‘s soundtrack to…
Rating: Mediocrity is ubiquitous. Too much product is all bluster, blood and no guts, attitude with no heart. Artifice and fakery reign supreme, rendering the true seekers in danger of obscurity. No more. Exuding poise not pose, presence not pretence,…
Rating: Progenitors of ‘indie’ when releasing the Spiral Scratch EP (‘Boredom’, ‘Time’s Up’) in 1977 and then (albeit) fleetingly infiltrating the pop airwaves (1978 – 1981) Buzzcocks dominated the punk/post-punk/pop-punk boundaries with everyday vignettes of habitual onanism (Orgasm Addict), spurned affection…
The legendary 12 Bar in Soho’s Denmark Street (soon to be demolished in the name of progress) played host to a celebration of two years of Street Sounds, the magazine with the scourge of the music press cognoscenti, Garry Bushell,…
Rating: A grown-up, post-bedroom dwelling Smiths, mainstay David Gedge is a narrator of the quixotic and quotidian, emblematic of ‘indie’ before the term became rootless and nothing but shorthand for a ‘look’ and usage of specific instrumentation (2/3 guitars, drums…
Rating: The Marksmen state ‘We are not in it for fame, success or money, fuck all of that it isn’t 1993 anymore.’ Funny that because this sound is straight from 1993/94 and could easily make up the numbers on a…