May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
A bit of a double bill of info for this post. The first was the announcement by Ist Ist on their social media over the weekend of some album launch shows over the country during the week of the release of their forthcoming album, Dagger. I had to check and see if any were taking…
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I’ve been keeping an eye out on the book review sections of the music magazines to see if and how they’re rating Our Secrets Are The Same. So far, there have been two reviews. Uncut concentrated on Blitz as their feature book with the Kerr/Burchill offering relegated to the “also ran” bullet-point rating of 8/10….
I posted this on my Facebook feed just now and decided to add it here. I’d love to ask Jim his thoughts on it…but I may as well call to Ailsa Craig for all the good it will do. I no longer feel comfortable with posting things to SMOG and that would most likely be…
There have been some other great reviews coming in for Graeme Thomson’s Themes For Great Cities book. Firstly, Classic Pop magazine gave a glowing review. And recently, both Uncut and Electronic Sound magazines have reviewed it. The Electronic Sound review is succinct yet wonderfully positive. The Uncut review gives the book an 8/10 and its…
From the makers of Uncut magazine – a WHOLE 124 page special edition on the Velvet Underground, and their individual members. I have only taken a quick glance through it so far – but it looks pretty extensive…and dare I say possibly more insightful than the documentary? I am still finding myself aghast that with…
With just under a week to go before the release of the new Field Music offering, Flat White Moon, the Brewis brothers look back through their musical output over the past 16 years with Uncut magazine.
The makers of Uncut magazine have brought out a special edition of the magazine with a whole issue dedicated entirely to Marc Bolan. I just had a quick perusal of it and it looks pretty good. Loads of detail and lots of great photos. I’ll give it a more substantial read later on.
A short piece in the latest edition of Uncut Magazine about Dana Gillespie and her new book. They spoke to her early on in the MainMan podcast series, in which she pretty much described herself as David Bowie’s f*** buddy – well, I guess a bit more than that – but she was emphatic that…
A sad day in music with the passing of reggae stalwart, Toots Hibbert. Only recently had Uncut magazine featured an extensive spread on Toots and The Maytals.
In this month’s latest copy of Uncut, there is a short interview with Catherine about the collaborative work with Bernard Butler resulting in the album as well as a very positive review of the album itself. The album is due for release on September 18th and is available to pre-order HERE