Recent Posts Tagged With 'features'

• Feature: Overpaid, oversexed and over here

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 12:40 in music, chicago, interview, detroit, features, house music, 1998, marshall jefferson, expletive undeleted, big issue in the north, claude young jr, deejay punk-roc

  THE first time Charles Gettis came to the UK was as a private in the 91st Airborne Division of the US Army. His first sight of the country came through the early morning November mists covering the vast open spaces of the Greenham Common airbase near...

• Feature: The Band on the Wall, reborn

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 02:20 in music, features, manchester, jah wobble, a certain ratio, expletive undeleted, the big issue in the north, graham massey, martin moscrop, the band on the wall

  THERE are plenty of venues in Manchester that are bigger than the Band on the Wall, and there may even be a few with a higher profile – but none of them can boast the same kind of musical pedigree. A tavern, pub and venue which, in one form or ...

• Feature: Radio Mentals

  Posted on Saturday June 20th, 2009 at 15:40 in features, leeds, 2009, pirate radio, rachel fox, the boat that rocked, steve west, expletive undeleted, dream fm, daisy & havoc, dj shock, frequency fm

  WHILE Richard Curtis probably isn’t someone you would turn to for stark social realism, the story of pirate radio deserves a slightly more serious appraisal than that found in his latest happy-go-lucky comedy, The Boat That Rocked. Curtis’s Sixti...

• Feature: Red Riding – It’s grim up north

  Posted on Monday March 9th, 2009 at 11:30 in features, yorkshire, Television Drama, channel 4, 2009, paddy considine, david peace, andrew garfield, the north of england, expletive undeleted, the red riding quartet, tony grisoni

  WHEN the final volume of David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet was published in 2002, the one thing that shell-shocked readers knew for sure was that his compelling saga of lost children, corrupt coppers and accidental heroes would never make it to the ...

• Feature: Gothic and proud

  Posted on Tuesday January 13th, 2009 at 06:18 in music, features, goth, leeds, 1988, the sisters of mercy, andrew eldritch, expletive undeleted, grunt magazine

  IT’S easy to take the piss out of Goths - well, it was until the fashionistas went all Gothic-luxe on us. I’m sure it must have absolutely horrified original Goths, bless ‘em. They must be an awful lot happier (it’s all relative) ...

• Feature: The vinyl countdown

  Posted on Monday September 29th, 2008 at 12:56 in 2008, features, manchester, old records, vinyl revival, expletive undeleted, kingbee records, secondhand record shops, sifters, the smithfield exchange, vinyl exchange, vox pop records

  FOURTEEN years after he was name-checked in Shakermaker, Peter Howard - alias Mr Sifter - still gets fans turning up at the shop he runs on Fog Lane in the Manchester suburb of Didsbury. “We get them coming from all over, and they say, where else i...

• Feature: How not to interview the Butthole Surfers

  Posted on Tuesday August 5th, 2008 at 19:22 in features, manchester, live review, butthole surfers, expletive undeleted, paul green school of rock

  I FIND out about the gig just two days beforehand, by chance. The Butthole Surfers are playing in Manchester on Saturday night. The Buttholes! Manchester! Saturday night! What the fuck? As far as I can make out, the band (the same line-up I interview...

• Feature: The Tony Wilson Experience

  Posted on Wednesday July 30th, 2008 at 18:32 in features, manchester, factory records, the north of england, expletive undeleted, manchester confidential, tony wilson experience

  AS WE approach the first anniversary of Tony Wilson’s death, I thought this might be an appropriate time to publish a longer version of a piece I wrote about the Tony Wilson Experience, a ‘24-hour conversation’ organised in Wilson&#...