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A Quietus Feature – Fearful Parties: The Associates’ Sulk 30 Years On...
For this lover of all things gnarled, rock, metal and punk, synth-pop presented a series of challenges and, once these had been hurdled, an even greater number of epiphanies. None of them were as...
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2012’s Noises In The Ether: A Rum Music Special (December 13th, 2012)
Ok, so the title of this piece is also a bit of a shameless nod to my radio show, Noise in the Ether, but it’s also a neat and relevant way of describing how noise music has evolved in recent years,...
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Film Feature: Things Learned At The 27th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival...
The Empire Never Ended Sci-fi fans might recognise the above statement from the great Philip K. Dick’s novel Valis. For Dick, the sentence signifies -I think- that the Roman Empire was the construct...
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A Liminal Feature – Walk On: Neil Young, from the Buffalo to the Pill (April...
For many, if not most, Neil Young fans, seeing him return this year to his best-ever backing band, Crazy Horse, even with a relatively throwaway covers record (Americana), will have felt like all...
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A Quietus Feature – 30 Years On: Soul Mining By The The Revisited (October...
One of the most charming quirks of the very early eighties was the unexpected popularity and commercial success of the most enigmatic of pop music. In 1982, impressively-coiffed British quartet Japan...
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A Quietus Feature: On the Beach by Neil Young 40 years later (September 8th,...
In a curious twist of coincidence, I’m writing this anniversary piece not long after the release of a long-awaited live album culled from Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s legendary 1974 tour, which...
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