Archive for June, 2007
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Mick Harvey
Mick Harvey, Nick Cave’s musical director in the Bad Seeds, singer/songwriter, composer, is back in an old stomping ground, Berlin. It was there in the early and mid-1980s that the Birthday Party then Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds based themselves releasing four albums by the latter and a couple by the former; they [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Alternative by Mike Gee
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Royksopp
Svein Verge is a funny man. Uncertain of which half of the electronic music duo, Royksopp, I’ve been hooked up with, I ask the obvious question. Svein replies, “The guy with the big nose and black hair.”
And, kids, there’s more: “It’s 10am, I’ve just woken up in my home [in Bergen, Norway] and I’m walking [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Pop by Mike Gee
Monday, June 25th, 2007
Lou Rhodes
Lou Rhodes is in many ways an earth mother; a genuine hippy at heart whose swirling feminity and insouciant voice blazed glorious in contrast with recording partner Andy Barlow’s muscular percussive driven limbo in their divine creation, Lamb.
Lamb were one of the great bands; no exaggeration here. Over four albums - Lamb, Fear Of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Alternative, Music by Mike Gee
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Groove Armada
Frankly, a year ago, Andy Cato and Tom Findlay thought they might be done. The Best Of Groove Armada had run its course. Lovebox, the previous studio album, was a distant four years in the past. And they had been together nearly 10 years.
“It just looked like maybe this was the end,” Findlay says from [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Music by Mike Gee
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
Queens of the Stone Age
Welcome to Era Vulgaris - the common era; and the multiplicity of meanings that title may hold or catalyse. There is no complete definition of what Queens Of the Stone Age founder and guitarist Josh Homme means by it although he has said it’s “dark, hard, and electrical, sort of like a construction worker”. Even [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Alternative, Music, Rock by Mike Gee
Friday, June 1st, 2007
Jarvis Cocker
It is mid-morning in Paris, France, and Jarvis Cocker is reclining on the sofa in his apartment where he lives with his wife, Camille Bidault-Waddington, and son, Albert. It is both tempting and uncharitable to say that Jarvis Cocker, former lead singer of Pulp and one of the few genuinely great songwriters to [...]
