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…
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…
Dear fans, By eck, ee by gum, ey up, by the crumpled tights of Nora Batty and the continuing exploits of Compo Clegg, hey, hey, it’s the Sheffield Monkees. The Steel City Rollers, once a chrysalis of George Formby proportions…
Dear acolytes of The Libs © The ‘Tines, the Four Mush-kateers, As folklore has it … back in 2002 your heroes crash, bang walloped a moribund and decrepit culture-scene and now in 2015 there back, making threats about how the…
Dear NME, There isn’t an easy way to do this, but, here goes … We went through so much together, shared so many special moments and cherished memories, through the good and the bad times you stood by me thick…
Rating: Thirty years on from their memorable introduction to the pop-sphere with the Hunting High And Low LP (featuring the still astounding song and video for ‘Take On Me’), Norwegian trio a-ha subsequently blitzkrieged the charts with a run of…
Rating: Prologue B.C. (before cancer) Wilko Johnson, erstwhile guitarist of Dr Feelgood, came to further prominence in Julien Temple’s 2009 Oil City Confidential which told the story of the pub-rock, pre-punk pioneers with the stark, seaside mudscape of Canvey Island,…
Rating: Tim Bowness is primarily known as vocalist and co-writer with the band No-Man, but in recent years has struck alone with intriguing results. A year on from his acclaimed Abandoned Dancehall Dreams, he returns with the powerful and eclectic, Stupid…
“For any ‘modernity’ to be one day worthy of taking its place as ‘antiquity’ it is necessary for it (to capture its time)” Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life (1863) It has been an eventful two years for Sleaford…
Sea of Bees, headed by Julie Ann Baenziger (aka Julie Ann Bee), a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Sacramento, California, release Build a boat to the sun. After experiencing an epiphany at church, albeit musical as opposed to religious, ‘Bee’ fell…