Making Good Their Escape: Black Country New Road Interviewed
Dec 4, 2019 · Most of the musicians involved in Black Country, New Road were previously in an ill-starred band called Nervous Conditions who formed in an East Cambridgeshire village in 2014, when some of them were still at school. To call their kinetic shows exciting would be a gross understatement. Their double-drummer line-up added an air of The Fall in ...
The Silent Partner Speaks: Vince Clarke Interviewed
Oct 5, 2023 · Jude Rogers Published 9:29am 5 October 2023. All portraits by Eugene Richards. The cover of Vince Clarke’s debut solo album feels like it’s making a statement. Monochrome, grainy, all ear, nose and throat, it’s a close-up of the face of an unlikely pop star, one who has sold roughly 30 million records over the last 42 years.
This Is Going To Hurt: The Mad World Of Tears For Fears’ Debut LP
Sep 20, 2013 · Wyndham Wallace Published 9:28am 20 September 2013. There was a time, in the mid 1980s, when Tears For Fears were inescapable. Formed in 1981 by two unprepossessing youngsters from Bath, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, their ascent to global stardom on the back of their second album, 1985’s Songs From The Big Chair, was accompanied by massive ...
What’s In A Name? Chino Moreno Of Deftones Interviewed
Sep 29, 2020 · Chino Moreno Of Deftones Interviewed. Chino Moreno speaks to John Doran about how the global pandemic has shifted the context of new Deftones album, Ohms. All studio photos by Frank Delgado and Clemente Ruiz. I can remember when I first saw the name “Deftones” passing briefly through my field of vision in the pages of Melody Maker in 1995.
Something Got Him Started: Mick Hucknall’s Favourite Albums
Nov 13, 2019 · As Simply Red release a new album, Mick Hucknall talks about what he considers the “perfect and complete” albums that inspired him, defined his approach to making music, and taught him how to be in a band. Also, about how he thrilled he was to be cock-blocked by Miles Davis. Photo by Dean Chalkley. It’s fair to say of Mick Hucknall that ...
Alison Moyet Interviewed: Only You – The Story & End Of Yazoo
May 4, 2011 · In an extensive interview about the history of life before, during and after Yazoo, Alison Moyet explains why her forthcoming Roundhouse performance with Vince Clarke could be the duo's last hurrah. Alison Moyet photo by Nicole Nodland. England’s post-punk mythos tells that certain towns became spawning grounds for the pioneering new sound ...
20 Years On: Souls Of Mischief’s 93 ‘Til Infinity Revisited
Nov 25, 2013 · There is little here for anyone to dislike, never mind be afraid of. 93 ‘Til Infinity is a gem – focused, sharp, lyrically bedazzling, musically rich, complicated yet easy-on-the-ear, clever but never indulgently show-offy. The emcees’ effortless, effervescent flows ring with a joie de vivre all but absent in today’s lackadaisical ...
Forty Years On: Depeche Mode’s Some Great Reward Revisited
Sep 24, 2024 · Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett gives us his Stateside view of another classic UK album… this time, Depeche Mode's fourth LP. This feature was first published on 15 September 2014. Ned Raggett Published 8:00am 24 September 2024. In 1984, George Orwell has Winston Smith overhear one of the anonymous proles sing a song described thus ...
The Strange World Of… Current 93
Oct 16, 2018 · Aimee Armstrong Published 11:49am 16 October 2018. Portrait by Giulio Di Mauro. The world of Current 93 is a darkly splendid one. At its centre is David Michael Bunting, who’s better known by his Genesis P-Orridge given name, David Tibet. After four decades as the inner cog of the project, Tibet’s perverse vernacular has cemented him as one ...
The Maiden Voyage: Bruce Dickinson Interviewed | The Quietus
May 13, 2024 · At the heart of the alchemy that is Iron Maiden is the relationship between two very different men, Dickinson and band leader Steve Harris. Harris is a solid, steadfast, single-minded, no-nonsense bloke. He is the bass player who grounds the band. Dickinson, in contrast, is an airline pilot with a voice that soars above the guitar onslaught.