Manic Street Preachers – ‘Resistance is Futile’
❉ The Manics haven’t rocked this hard in years, writes Eoghan Lyng.
TOP OF THE POPS
‘Threads’: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Bomb
❉ In 1984, BBC2 broadcast the most terrifying film ever made: ‘Threads’.
Who killed Simon Dee?
❉ Once Britain’s biggest star… and then gone. Why?
Soft Cell – The Boys Who Came Back
❉ With one last Soft Cell reunion confirmed, Ange Chan reflects on life as a Cellmate.
‘The Black Archive #16: Carnival of Monsters’
❉ 45 years on, Carnival of Monsters is still top of the pops! Ian Potter tells us why.
B.A. Robertson – A Square Peg In A Round World
❉ The once-ubiquitous, post-punk polymath’s solo work, re-evaluated by Tim Worthington.
‘All Or Nothing: The Mod Musical’ reviewed
❉ East End Modfathers The Small Faces live, breathe and sing again in Carol Harrison’s energetic musical play.
‘The Naked Civil Servant’ (DVD/Blu-Ray) reviewed
❉ The groundbreaking biographical drama of England’s ‘stately homo’ arrives on Blu-Ray.
Podcast of the Week: Chart Music
❉ Chart Music rams its hand into the lucky bag that is a random episode of Top Of The Pops.
The Skids: 40th Anniversary Tour – Roundhouse, London, 16 June 2017
❉ The Skids, Scotland’s finest New Wave export, are resoundingly back.