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The head of Jason Pierce must be an interesting place to be, on many levels, particularly when it comes to his approach to crafting Spiritualized records. In 2016, Sound On Sound took a deep dive into the band’s landmark 1997 album Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space with a specific focus on the […]
I don’t recall exactly what it was that endeared me to It Hugs Back at first. It might have been the lo-fi fuzzy bounce of the lead single from their 2009 debut album Inside Your Guitar, or the fact that 4AD sent it to me as a 7″ single. Yes, vinyl is a shortcut to […]
I’ve seen and shot a lot of live music photographs, but this photo of Siouxsie & The Banshees on stage in Sweden in 1982, shot by Jill Furmanovsky through John McGeoch’s Yamaha SG 1000, just stopped me in my tracks. Breathtaking. “The live silhouette shot was taken at around 9pm just as the band came […]
Part of the rollout for Mogwai’s latest album As The Love Continues back in February was Stuart Braithwaite, Barry Burns, and band’s account live-tweeting a playthrough of the record on Tim’s Twitter Listening Party the night before the album was certified as their first #1 record in the UK. Not a bad way to celebrate […]
This probably ad-libbed birthday song from The Cure’s May 1980 show at Scala in Herford, West Germany was directed to bassist Simon Gallup on the eve of his 20th birthday, but we’ll turn it around today to wish Robert Smith a happy 62nd birthday today.
Thanks to Cocteau Twins Simon Raymonde for taking care of doing all the background on this post, via the band’s Facebook page. It’s also cool to note that in addition to their official website being an active, living archive of everything about the band, their socials are also being kept active by a member of […]
I launched this blog with some Swervedriver content – a shot of Adam Franklin’s pedalboard from their October 2019 show at The Horseshoe – but haven’t actually talked about the band since then, so let’s rectify that, starting with some guitar-centric material since you can’t like Swervedriver and not care about guitars. I actually don’t […]
Which is more classic? This song, the first single from Roxy Music’s final album – 1982’s Avalon – or Bryan Ferry’s leather jacket tux look from the video. Honestly, it’s a coin toss but for our purposes let’s just say it comes up “song” and move on. This “performance” on German television programme Na sowas! […]
While any live band performance television footage from yesteryear is kind of a gift, most of it is pretty low-res, VHS rip quality and while it may be period-correct but not necessarily a lot of fun to watch. So this recently-surfaced high-quality (well, 480p) clip of Ride tearing up British programme The Happening (not to […]
Sonic Cathedral turned the UK’s first COVID lockdown into content last year, soliciting quarantine listening selections from dreampop and shoegaze artists for their Isolationism series. Slowdive drummer Simon Scott chose the 1986 collaboration between The Moon and The Melodies between minimalist composer Harold Budd and Cocteau Twins, describing how its soothing blend of ambience and […]
