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Tales of lost, flogged and stolen old records, republished vintage fanzine interviews and musings on contemporary arts and culture from the perspective of one man in the north of England. you might like.
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Interview: Steve Albini
ANOTHER reprint from the annals of GRUNT magazine, this time an interview with legendary guitar-botherer, microphone enthusiast and In Utero, Surfer Rosa and Pod engineer Steve Albini. After Big Black imploded at the height of their dark, angry powe...
Feature: Radio Mentals
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...
Hip Replacement: Charly by the Prodigy (XL Recordings)
E-COMMERCE meant something very different to what it means today. It’s not like we didn’t have good reason. It seemed like Thatcher had been around forever and she didn’t appear to be in a hurry to relinquish her icy, vice-like grip on the thro...
Interview: Andrew Weatherall
HE MIGHT describe himself as the “classic underachiever”, but Andrew Weatherall doesn’t seem to have done so badly. A music and fashion nut from Windsor with an unhealthy obsession for the minutiae of the rituals and mores of a string of differ...
Feature: Gothic and proud
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) ...
Hip Replacement: Bad Girl by Bad Girl (Ibiza Records)
A WHILE before we started doing the Microdot parties in Leeds, me and Jez did a few nights at the 1in12 in Bradford called VLF, which stood for Very Low Frequencies or Vegetable Liberation Front, depending on who we were talking to at the time. On th...
