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REVIEW: Richard Davis Madchester years 89-91 book

REVIEW: Richard Davis Madchester years 89-91 book

The Madchester years were full of colour, vibrance and youthful energy. Being 15 in 1990 I was abit too young to enjoy gigs taking place in 1989, although I was an avid listener of the music but didn’t fully embrace…

Photo Credit: Kevin Cummins, Sept 1985.

NEWS: Happy Mondays The Early EP’s 12” box set

London Records has announced the November 8th release of Happy Mondays‘s The Early EPs, collecting the band’s first four EPs. The Early EPs will be reissued as a 4×12″ Boxset New animated vide created by Pete Fowler (Super Furry Animals,…

INTERVIEW: Shaun Ryder

The ever garrulous rapscallion on his ‘posh, middle-class’ wife and offspring, pig’s tickers, taxing issues, close encounters, the wisdom of aging, his enduring appeal and new pastures.  We talk to the legend Shaun Ryder ahead of his performance at this…

LIVE: Festival No. 6, Portmeirion, Wales 05-07.9.14

Festivals belong in fields, or so I once thought. “Just 20,000 people standing in a field” sang Jarvis sardonically – written, mind, before Pulp’s seminal Glastonbury performance in 1995. All you need to accurately recreate the typical festival experience is…