Tag: The Way

INTERVIEW: Steve Diggle (Buzzcocks) – Part Two

Read part one HERE ‘People are strange machines’ (with its Scary Monsters Super Creeps  type opening) and Virtually Real’ off The Way (2015). Is it your way of saying there’s an overreliance on technology or something more sinister? A jokey…

INTERVIEW: Steve Diggle (Buzzcocks)- Part One

Steve Diggle is co-founder of seminal Manchester punks Buzzcocks, progenitors of alternative indie culture and between 1976 – 1981 he authored hits of theirs such as ‘Promises’ and Harmony in my head’ before forming Flag of Convenience with ‘Cocks drummer…

ALBUM REVIEW: Buzzcocks ‘The Way’

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…