Alan McGee – Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label In an alternative universe there’s a book called The Man Who Discovered Oasis – and that title alone would be enough to ensure you handed over your money. In this reality, however,…
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…
We’ve all been there, unimpressedly looking up and down the bill of a festival thinking you could have chosen a better line-up. Yet still people aren’t willing to put their money where there mouth is. Well, to better understand the…
Peter Hook is unquestionably an icon of modern music. When you hear any group described as sounding like Joy Division, New Order or even Monaco, you can bet they mean they sound like Hooky. His innovative melodic approach to playing…