REVIEW: Scarred For Life – Volume 2
A second volume of the Scarred For Life books is certainly something to get your teeth into if you’re a fan of the likes of Grotbags scaring the living daylights out of you whilst she claimed to be all about…
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REVIEW: Jimmy Page – The Anthology
Depending on when you were born you’re more than likely to have different experiences of first hearing about and seeing Jimmy Page. Me personally it was watching a rerun of the 1966 Blow Up film featuring David Hemmings and Vanessa…
REVIEW: The Hidden Mod in Modern Art – Thomas Crow
The Mod or Modernist phenomena has had many words and books written about the right and wrong way to describe its appeal, the look, the thinking, the origins and its never ending appeal. There have been books written on the…
REVIEW: Kevin Cummins – While We Were Getting High: Britpop and the 90’s
When buying the weekly music papers the likes of which included Sounds, Melody Maker and NME it was more than like the pictures that were displayed on the cover and within its pages that initially attracted you to buy. I…
REVIEW: The Music Library – Jonny Trunk – reevaluated
It’s Jonny Trunks fault. Honest it is! His oft hallowed book The Music Library book saw its release in 2005 spawning an army of Library Music fans to accept freely this genre of music that sometimes sounds like nothing else…
REVIEW: London – Patrick Keiller – fuel publishing
The latest Fuel Publication book details a place known around the world as being mecca for all types of people to gather, enticed by its nooks and crannies, the bigger details and it’s shimmering startling scenery. London, a new book…
REVIEW: Lawrence Watson and Paul Weller – Into Tomorrow book
The great music photographers include David Bailey, Pennie Smith and Gered Mankowitz who have had the maybe daunting task of capturing moments in time of legendary artists whether it be on a live stage, in private settings, recording studios or…
REVIEW: Ready Steady Go book and vinyl box set – Andy Neill
Before Top Of The Pops, The Word and The Tube there was a music show that was something all the more cooler; it had a style and myth that still surrounds its fibre until this day. There is also a…
REVIEW: ’79 The Mod Revival – Garry Bushell book
The Mod revival period of the late 70’s going through to the mid 80’s helped many woman and man touch various tailor-made pieces of cloth in various changing colours including wearing bowling shoes, ten pin alleys were never as popular…
REVIEW: Paul – Photographs by Andy Crofts
Currently sitting pretty at number 1 in the album charts with his name being mentioned in the same breath as Lennon and McCartney, Paul Weller has much to being proud of at this moment in time. One of his band…