Rating: Fifty years on the 1960s just won’t go away. More to the point, the ’60s that was refracted through the ’80s is the corpse that won’t stay dead. This is the C860s. In this vein, Literature, a four-piece hailing…
Rating: This sold out gig would appear to be the antithesis of everything this duo stand for. Hipsters with sleeve tattoos, wispy beards destined to be on the cutting room floor by Christmas, imbibers of nothing but craft ale. However,…
Art-prankster, tech-provocateur and mainstay of Swiss electro-pioneers Yello, Boris Blank, talks to Gigslutz ahead of the release of his three-hour opus Electrified in September. Boris candidly reveals his past and present influences, opens up about his work with The Associates’…
Enigmatic purveyor of the songs that saved your life, avowed celibate humasexual and esteemed Penguin author, put your hands together for Steven Patrick Morrissey. In anticipation of the release of his forthcoming LP, World Peace is None of Your Business,…
Rating: Here we have a bedroom auteur in thrall to the ‘80s. Do we need anymore? On the evidence of this, yes. This is an album that likes a bass sound, running the full gamut of phat, phunky, phrobbing, phumping,…
To commemorate the release of ‘Crash 14’ by Menswe@r Gigslutz caught up with head honcho Johnny Dean who discusses the chaos and mayhem of their arrival on the scene, the antipathy and envy it generated, the fall-outs, the vagaries of…
Mark E. Smith is The Fall. Mark E. Smith formed the band in Prestwich, Greater Manchester in 1976. Mark E. Smith has always been The Fall. Mark E. Smith will always be The Fall. Mark E. Smith has released 30…
Imagine this. James Brown, Mick Jagger, Little Richard, Prince, Jimmy Swaggart and Sly Stone all happen to be in the same bar. In the same town. At the SAME TIME. After ditching the formalities they end up swapping notes and…
Are they a guest, special guest, mate of the bloke or auxiliary member? Featuring, with or and? Here’s a list of 15 obvious, obscure, known and unknown examples of benevolence, fortune or circumstance. Sandy Denny ‘The Battle of Evermore’ (Led…
What is (a) goth? Is it an eye liner wearing, patchouli dousing, fantasy role-playing, snakebite-drinking loner? All lazy shorthand signifiers applied thoughtlessly usually by those who haven’t even deigned to explore. An unfairly maligned and derided sound and style yet…