Archive for January, 2008
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Spoon
For critically-acclaimed US cult band, Spoon, 2007 contained a big surprise. Spoon’s sixth album in its 14-year career debuted at No 10 on the Billboard 200. Not the indie or the alternative chart where the band are used to having strong chart positions, but the all-in, you-gotta-be-big-to-make-it-here, top 200.
Remarkably, on the barometer of critical [...]
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Doc Neeson (formerly of The Angels)
There was a time when it seemed likely the answer to the question ‘Will I ever see your face again?’ was not, ‘No way, get fucked, fuck off.’ But simply, ‘No way!’
On December 1, 1999, a 10-tonne truck ploughed into the back of Angels lead singer, Doc Neeson’s car when it was stopped at [...]
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Mum
Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason sounds like he either suffering from an extremely heavy night out or he has the worst cold in history. His voice is deep, fogged out, almost-but-not-quite-yet croaky as the co-founder of quirky Icelandic group, Mum, surveys Manchester’s somewhat bleak and cold streets from a tour bus. It is 9.40am - unnaturally early [...]
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
Baby Animals
Twelve years ago the best rock band in Australia broke-up, choked by a legal stoush with their manager. It was premature and all so sad. The Baby Animals 1991 self-titled debut spent six weeks at #1 and sold more than 400,000 copies in Australia alone, making it one of the biggest Australian albums ever at [...]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Robert Wyatt
This, frankly, is an honour. The man on the end of the phone is paralysed from the waist down and confined to wheelchair. Robert Wyatt has been since July 1, 1973, when he fell - pissed - from the 3rd floor window of June Campbell Kramer’s Maida Vale home. June was better known as [...]
