Siouxsie - Live review London LA 2 - Friday Oct 19 2007 |
I don't know what most long standing Banshees fans would have madeof this gig, the first live appearance from Ms Sioux in 3 years and the first since she and Budgie split up as both musical and life p...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:08:00 GMT |
Anton Corbijn - Question & Answer session on Control |
Curzon Cinema, Soho, London 5th October 2007
When I heard in 2005 that a film was to be made of Deborah Curtis' book "Touching from a distance" and that Anton Corbijn was to be the director ...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:11:00 GMT |
Book Review - Sex Pistols: 90 days at EMI |
Brian Southall is an EMI insider. A PR Exec during the Pistols 91 day reign at EMI from October 1976 to January 1977, there can be few people better placed to write such a warts and all, methodically ...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:14:00 GMT |
Ruts with Henry Rollins - London 16 July 2007 |
In June the sad news broke that Paul Fox, the Ruts guitarist, had terminal cancer. A couple of benefit gigs for cancer research were announced with the biggest one being planned for the Carling Academ...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:32:00 GMT |
Don Lett's Punk Rock Movie - 30 years on |
Until this week I hadn't watched this film since about 1983. It seemed an artifact then. Now, nearly 25 years later and 30 years on since much of it was shot by Don Letts on Super 8, it really is from...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 05:48:00 GMT |
The Slits - Boston, Great Scott - Mon Oct 30 |
I never thought I'd get the chance to write a Slits live review but, to be frank, I was also very unsure about this show in the days leading up to it for reasons I'll go into later.Ari, Tessa and the ...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 04:03:00 GMT |
The Rezillos - Glasgow Apollo recollections |
The Rezillos were arguably THE leading band to come out of Scotland during the 1976-78 period. The band played what turned out to be their last gig for 23 years on 23rd December 1978 at the Glasgow Ap...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:11:00 GMT |
End Of The Century dvd The Ramones |
"End of the Century" is a labour of love film made by the co-directors Jim Fields and Michael Gramaglia about one of THE most influential bands of the last 30 years. The film tells the full story of t...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:20:00 GMT |
Punk Attitude dvd - Don Letts |
Sometimes it does feel like punk never happened but, peel back the surface in a great many areas, especially in much literature and many films, and talk to some people in their teens and 20s and the t...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:10:00 GMT |
A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash - Johnny Green |
A sub heading for this book could be "The warts and all story of The Clash"Johnny Green's book from 1999, later revised in 2003, tells it like it was. It doesn't dress up or pander to the US originate...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:38:00 GMT |
