Breaking state with Brix & The Extricated!
❉ Don’t Brexit – BRIX IT! Nick Walters meets Brix and the Extricated one year on from their last encounter and reviews their new album Breaking State.
MARK E SMITH
Méliès the Magician: Father of the Fantasy Film
❉ Glen McCulla waxes lyrical on master of illusion Georges Méliès and the origins of cinema.
‘Jossy’s Giants’ revisited on DVD
❉ David Lewis looks back on the fondly remembered childrens drama, released on DVD this month.
Interview: Simon Wolstencroft
❉ Simon Brett chats with ‘Funky Si’ about his life in music and of course, his relationship with the late Mark E. Smith.
Remembering Mark E. Smith
❉ Ace Records’ Liz Buckley on her close encounters of the MES kind.
Mark E. Smith (1957 – 2018)
❉ Veteran inkslinger Jon Wilde pays tribute to the inimitable, irreplaceable M.E.S.
Mind The Watford Gap: ‘Leave the Capital’ reviewed
❉ The story of music that couldn’t have been made anywhere else but Manchester.
The Fall – ‘Singles 1978-2016’ (7CD Box Set) reviewed
❉ The Fall have never really cared less about being “understood”, and in this respect, deserve to be regarded as a true pop band.
Brix And The Extricated: Interview & Review
❉ EXCLUSIVE interview with Brix Smith Start & Steve Trafford, plus album and gig review.
Gig Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Brix & The Extricated
❉ Less a gig, more an elating sonic attack.