The erudite ‘Rebel Yeller’ begins his tome with a reference to his motorbike crash in 1990 at the age of 34, following the success of his aptly named Charmed Life album. Speeding and racing (in more ways than one) on…
Rating: Holly Johnson was once the provocative and sexually daring front man of Frankie Goes To Hollywood – only the second band to have their first three releases hit the top spot (‘Relax’, ‘Two Tribes’, ‘The Power Of Love’). After…
Rating: This is true until you realise that their London is so anachronistic you can smell the burning of flesh from 1666, the shitz spirit, a stammering inbred blueblood and a laundrette-only East End market square. The tone is as…
Rating: Whether as reminder or introduction, these songs capture the giddy headiness of youth; the transition from adolescence to adulthood with its trials, misadventures and (loss of) innocence. Deriving from ska, vaudeville, pop, rock, jazz and with punk’s “will-do” attitude,…
And here’s more packaged pleasures for the perpetually adolescent consumer. Enjoy! Angus & Julia Stone ‘Grizzly Bear’ These Antipodean siblings return with their third album, this delicacy produced by uber-turd polisher, Rick Rubin. To get him on-board the duo promised…
In anticipation of Mark Gardener’s Brixton gig on 1st November we caught up with him to get the lowdown on his current projects (one with Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie), his memories of ‘shoegaze’, Creation Records and tantalisingly offers his thoughts…
Rating: With hints of The Electric Prunes and The Seeds, and that wave of post-Beatles fuzz-scuzz that fixated on that period in between wake and sleep, the dreamscape and the (un)conscious mind; topics ripe for discussion with narcotics occasionally on…
The Singles Reviews give the Gigslutz writers an opportunity to listen to songs that wouldn’t usually pop up on their iPod, no matter how many times they shuffled. Sometimes they’re pleasantly surprised by a track by an artist they’d usually…
Rating: Religion, crises of faith and (wo)man’s fraught relationship with sin and redemption have long been prominent themes in music; from gospel and soul with their communing with him upstairs to death metal and its passion for the antichrist. In…
Rating: By 1979 the arty, cerebral ‘punk’ collective Wire had released three (now ‘seminal’ and forever ‘influential’) albums (Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154) evolving into post-punk in the process. Additionally, unbeknownst to them, they are single-handedly responsible for the…