The Big Interview: Anton Newcombe
With one foot on stage ahead of a show in Dublin and with a Liverpool show this coming Saturday, The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s frontman Anton Newcombe talks to Joseph Viney about his affinity for...
In Pictures: Africa Oyé 2014
Pete Goodbody shares with us his photographic highlights from the UK’s largest, free African music festival… Africa Oyé attracted record crowds in Liverpool’s Sefton Park this year; partly because of the weather, but it...
Breathing New Life Into Experimental Practice — Immix Ensemble
Launching with Ex Easter Island Head and composer Joseph Hillyard, Jon Davies finds a new ensemble loaded with openness and charm… Although Liverpool’s performing music calendar can never be accused of a lack of...
No Lists, No Diaries, No Apps Required: Sounds From The Other City Festival
Activists? Techno in a parish church? Unpronounceable band names? Robert Cutforth considers the joys of Greater Manchester’s most bonkers festival… I have been to Salford exactly three times and always by accident. I suppose that’s...
Turning Drawing On Its Head: SPACE//SOUND
Maja Lorkowska takes a line for a walk with a group of innovative sound artists… Arts and music promoters Deep Hedonia and artist-focused free sheet Drawing Paper recently got together to bring us a...
Kraftwerk Uncovered: A Future Past
Nathan Richardson expects a tribute to Kraftwerk and instead discovers an evening of roaring, mesmeric experimentation… “What’s past is Prologue” — William Shakespeare. It is perhaps not much of an icebreaker when Icebreaker, the 12-piece...
“A near hallucinatory occurrence”: Dean Blunt at Blade Factory
Our live art critic C James Fagan witnesses this solo artist’s sensational (and terrifying) blend of music and performance art… Where does all this begin? At the invitation to write about the upcoming...
Vinyl Renaissance
With vinyl sales at an all time high, Fred Johnson explores the reverence and psychology behind our obsession with analogue… 2013 marks the renaissance of the humble record. The British Recorded Music Industry...
The Big Interview: Alan McGee
We chat to founder of Creation Records Alan McGee, about his autobiography, being involved with a label again and who should have been massive… The Double Negative: Congratulations on the book. What was the process...