It’s 8pm on Saturday in Edinburgh’s Halfway House, where tonight the locals and stray tourists are joined by several Sleaford Mods fans. Huddled together in the small, crowded bar, they eulogise the Nottingham band, who are described as ‘proper’, ‘quality’ and ‘the real deal’. Listening to their conversation,…
Photos by Philip Vernon.
This month we’ve invited Seymour Quigley from the band Horse Party to take us on a tour of a lesser known hotbed of rock n’ roll… Bury St Edmunds is located right in the centre of East Anglia, about 30 minutes…
Simon Wolstencroft, aka Funky Si, was the drummer in The Fall for 11 years and part of what many fans consider the band’s definitive line-up. Before that, he was in an early version of the Smiths, but turned down the drum…
Simon Spence has written books about Andrew Loog Oldham, the Stone Roses, Depeche Mode and the Donnelly Brothers . His new book, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas presents the band’s story in full for the first time. We caught up with him…
Brazilian DJ/producer Fabrício Peçanha has remixed Depeche Mode’s ‘Personal Jesus’. Hailing from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul in Southern Brazil, Fabrício has secured himself the accolade of one of Brazil’s biggest DJs. Having opened for Lady Gaga, Madonna and…
When The Charlatans arrive on stage this evening, the first thing I’m reminded of is how much tragedy this band has survived over the years. After losing founding members with the death of keyboardist Rob Collins in 1996 and drummer Jon Brookes in 2013, the band refused…
At Gigslutz we strive to bring you reviews of the best albums each week, but we’re only human (debatable at times) and occasionally we miss a few. Well, that or the record label/PR agency neglect to send us a copy of…
Scanning the Royal Festival Hall crowd before this gig to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Underworld‘s dubnobasswithmyheadman, you’d be forgiven for questioning whether the mostly 40-something audience had turned up to the wrong event. Yet look closely and it’s easy to spot the 90s rave veterans in…
There was more than one band of brothers from the North of England with epic tunes in the 90s. And unlike Oasis, Embrace are still going strong. On the eve of their headlining performance at Dunfermline Live, we caught up…