‘Cock Sparrer: The Albums 1994 – 2017’
❉ This is a highly recommended purchase for anyone into British punk, especially the streetpunk/Oi! genres, writes Brad Shepherd.
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Blancmange – ‘Wanderlust’
❉ Hot on the heels of Unfurnished Rooms, Neil Arthur’s insightful lyrics explore the human condition in this modern day and age, writes Ange Chan.
Just as Manic Now: Dubstar return with ‘ONE’
❉ Dubstar’s long-awaited fourth record, succinctly entitled ‘One’, is their finest album to date, writes Ange Chan.
David Bowie specials coming to BBC Two and BBC Four
❉ A new landmark film, David Bowie: The First Five Years, is coming to BBC Two in 2019 and BBC Four will broadcast David Bowie at Glastonbury 2000 in October 2018.
Ten of the Best: Paul McCartney
❉ SMERSH Pod host and Macca buff John Rain shares with We Are Cult his personal pantheon of Sir Paul’s best post-Fab Four numbers.
‘Scouse Pop’: Soundtrack of a Generation
❉ ‘Scouse Pop’ is an a rare, documented insight into the economic and political backdrop which forged the music that came out of Liverpool during the ’80s and ’90s.
‘D.O.A.: A Right of Passage’ on Blu-Ray
❉ DOA has existed in a pirate-video limbo for several decades now, and to finally see it cleaned up on Blu-Ray is a wonderful thing, writes Daniel Marner.
A Final Say Goodbye: Soft Cell, London O2, 30/09/2018
❉ On Sunday 30 September, Marc Almond and Dave Ball reunited for Soft Cell’s celebration of forty years since they met and their last ever show. We Are Cult’s Ange Chan reports back.
‘The House Of Love: 30th Anniversary Edition’
❉ We pore over the super-deluxe anniversary edition of The House of Love’s tremendous debut album in all its beautiful, brooding, spiritual glory.
Interview: Cult With No Name
❉ We Are Cult’s Ange Chan catches up with genre-hopping ‘post-punk half-drunk atmospheric esoteric electronic balladeers’ Erik Stein and Jon Boux.