Gig Review: Sparks – The Hippopotamus Tour
❉ The drapes are drawn and the lights are low but this is a far cry from an amateur hour.
CULT MUSIC
Blancmange – ‘Unfurnished Rooms’ reviewed
❉ Blancmange keep one foot in early 80s electronica, and one firmly in the 21st century.
Gig Review: Speak and Spell – Music for the Masses, Islington O2, London, 23/09/17
❉ We review and chat with Europe’s premier Depeche Mode tribute band, at their Saturday 23 September 2017 gig.
John Foxx and The Maths – ‘The Machine’ reviewed
❉ An evocative journey of dark electronica, wrapped up in a soundtrack.
Pinups: Marc Almond – ‘Shadows and Reflections’ reviewed
❉ Marc Almond brings ’60s orchestral pop out of the darkness and into the light.
Gig Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Brix & The Extricated
❉ Less a gig, more an elating sonic attack.
Tragedy: ‘Staying Alive: The Disco Inferno Of The Bee Gees’ reviewed
❉ This one of the best, and saddest, rock books you’ll ever read.
Songs From The Sound Pit: Marc Bolan’s ‘Zinc Alloy’ Revisited
❉ 40 years on from Bolan’s passing, a personal appreciation of an underrated album.
Fuzzbox are back!
❉ The most successful all-female band in British pop history have a new single out 23 October!
Swan Song: Siouxsie Sioux’s ‘Mantaray’
❉ Looking back on Siouxsie’s first and only solo album, released a decade ago today.