Swan Song: Siouxsie Sioux’s ‘Mantaray’
❉ Looking back on Siouxsie’s first and only solo album, released a decade ago today.
Royal Festival Hall
Cult Q & A: Matthew Sweet
❉ This week, Matthew Sweet on eating macaroons with Olivia de Havilland and being insulted by Tom Baker.
Behind the sofa with Jenny Colgan
❉We chat with bestselling novelist Jenny Colgan on Quick Reads, Doctor Who, her literary influences, the ‘chick lit’ label and why writers’ block is “bollocks”.
From the archives: ‘David Bowie: Pantomime Rock?’
❉ A classic David Bowie interview with John Mendelssohn, from Rolling Stone, 1 April 1971.