ALL TALK is back! Bigger and better than ever and more chock-full of reckless and controversial opinionating than anywhere else on the internet! This time around our team of brilliant, fearless writers choose their worst covers ever recorded. Tell us…
Simon Spence has written books about Andrew Loog Oldham, the Stone Roses, Depeche Mode and the Donnelly Brothers . His new book, Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas presents the band’s story in full for the first time. We caught up with him…
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…
This month we invited our writers to get all wistful and nostalgic and cast their eyes and ears over their record collections/iTunes folders, dig out their old ticket stubs and tell us what has been the greatest year for music within…
New Order unveiled a brand spanking new track titled, ‘Plastic’ at their gig in Chicago yesterday (July 1). Earlier this year frontman Bernard Sumner had admitted that the band had been writing some new material, which first came to fruition…
New Order played their first new material in nine years last night (30th March), when they performed a new track in Chile at the Lollapalooza festival. The song is reported to have a working title of ‘Drop The Guitar’. Watch…
A Night For Jon Brookes “It’s all about the music, everything else is shit” Jon Brookes. This was an amazing, emotional rollercoaster of a night. It was an event put on in tragic circumstances but a fitting tribute to 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…
1989 THE NUMBER, ANOTHER SUMMER, GET DOWN, SOUND OF THE FUNKY DRUMMER, MUSIC HITTING YOUR HEART, COS I KNOW YOU GOT SOUL, BROTHERS & SISTERS! (Chuck D, 1989) As we sit here in the middle of one of the hottest…
The Jodrell Bank ‘Transmissions’ for summer 2013 are ones which have been eagerly anticipated by us here at Gigslutz. Curated by headliners New Order, the line up for this year’s Transmission Number 5 had us eagerly counting down the days…