Bend the knee. Bow your head. Give thanks. The best album of 2019 has arrived. After the thrills, spills and dizzy delights of "Calling It", "Too Much Money" and"Mind Your Own Business" earlier this year the Holy Trinity of electro-pop/art who are, collectively, Automatic now present their debut long player and, to be blunt with [...]
London. Home of the brash, outrageous and free. Today it is bathed in the golden glow of an Indian summer. The sun is high. People's spirits are higher. Short sleeves. Bright smiles. The intoxicating whiff of mild inebriation. I am in Kentish Town. I'm with an old friend from back when we were...younger. Times have [...]
This is the sound of youth. Frantic. Frenetic. Furious. Frenzied. Fast. Flirtatious. Fabulous. I know. You are just like me and your youth was rarely, if ever, any of those things...at least not for any extended period of time. In truth my own adolescence was a messy blend of acne, angst, anxiety and self-loathing. These [...]
Back in 1983 when the only things we had to worry about were the Falklands War, the terminal decline of our traditional industrial heartlands, mass unemployment, riots, police brutality and a Conservative government Hell bent on giving a helping hand to the people who least need a helping hand, a band made up of two [...]
Norman Rockwell. An artist who was, in his lifetime, dismissed by "serious" critics. His willingness to produce work for the mass market, including for the likes of Coca-Cola saw him treated with a barely concealed contempt by the people who matter...or who like to tell others how much they matter. Kenneth Williams once shared a [...]
“For Manchester is the place where people do things… ‘Don’t talk about what you are going to do, do it.’ That is the Manchester habit. And in the past through the manifestation of this quality the word Manchester became a synonym for energy and freedom and the right to do and to think without shackles.” [...]
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not" (Isaiah 53:3, King James Bible) "...publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull, who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning [...]
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