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And Everything Changed – the William Doyle interview
A decade after William Doyle’s musical rebirth as East India Youth – going on to receive a Mercury Music Prize nomination for Total Strife Forever, his debut LP in that guise – this acclaimed artist remains strong on songcraft as … Continue reading
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Tagged Blancmange, Bournemouth, Brian Eno, British Sea Power, Doyle and the Fourfathers, East India Youth, Erland Cooper, Great Spans of Muddy Time, Hannah Peel, Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Monty don, Neil Arthur, Soft Cell, southampton, Total Strife Forever, William Doyle, XTC, Your Wilderness Revisited
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Ready for re-entry and re-animation – talking Everything Everything with Jeremy Pritchard
With the release of their delayed fifth LP, Re-Animator, now barely a week away, art-rock four-piece Everything Everything are crackin gon with plans for a tie-in UK and Irish headline tour next Spring … pandemic restrictions willing. But there’s no … Continue reading
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Tagged A Fever Dream, Alex Robertshaw, Arc, Blur, Everything Everything, Genesis, Get to Heaven, Hexham, Jeremy Pritchard, Jonathan Higgs, Man Alive, Manchester, Michael Jackson, Mike Spearman, Modern Bison, Northumberland, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, Re-Animator, Salford, The Police, Tunbridge Wells, Violent Sun, XTC
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From record shop pilgrimages to transatlantic discovery – talking The Decemberists with Colin Meloy
This weekend, The Decemberists leave Portland, Oregon for their latest UK and mainland European tour. But don’t expect them to have worked on the set these last couple of weeks. As vocalist/guitarist and occasional children’s author Colin Meloy explained, “We’ve been … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn De Wilde, Capitol, Chris Funk, Colin Meloy, Fairport Convention, Hamilton, I’ll Be Your Girl, Jenny Conlee, John Moen, Montana, Nate Query, Once in My Life, Oregon, Parks and Recreation, Portland, R.E.M., Rough Trade, The Decemberists, The Simpsons, The Smiths, They Might Be Giants, XTC
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Getting by in time – back in touch with Rick Buckler
To misquote A Town Called Malice, I’ll start by apologising for the things I’ve never done. On a family taxi duty the Sunday before last, I cut my eldest daughter short as she told me what she’d been up to … Continue reading
Calling Captain Summertime – the Nick Heyward interview
While Woodland Echoes is Nick Heyward’s seventh solo album, it’s his 10th in total, going right back to 1981’s Haircut 100 debut Pelican West. And this highly personable Beckenham-born singer/songwriter, guitarist and pianist is rightly proud of his latest offering, telling us, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan McGee, Alan Tarney, Blair Cunningham, Cotton Clouds, Creation, Florida, Geoff Emerick, Graham Jones, Haircut 100, Henley-on-Thames, Herschell Holder, Ian Shaw, Key West, Les Nemes, Let's Rock, Marc Fox, Nick Heyward, North of a Miracle, Pelican West, Rewind, The Jam, Woodland Echoes, XTC, Zak Starkey
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alt-J – This Is All Yours – a writewyattuk album review
From the spiralling choral introduction that sees us on our way, we’re clearly back in alt-J country on This is All Yours. But that’s not to say this is An Awesome Wave pt. II. The celebrated quartet – who won … Continue reading
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Tagged alt-J, An Awesome Wave, Every Other Freckle, Gomez, Gus Unger-Hamilton, Hunger Games, Hunger of the Pines, Joe Newman, Mercury Prize, Nara, Radiohead, This Is All Yours, Thom Green, XTC
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