Dec, 01
2012

GLASVEGAS INTERVIEW

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December 2012, Spindle Magazine Issue 6

It was back in 2009 when I first saw Glasvegas, at a time when buying a ticket to see Kings Of Leon, whom they were supporting, was still vaguely acceptable (in other words, pre sex on fire). In the wake of James Allan’s breakdown, with a spate of cancelled performances and dogged by rumours of an impending breakup, the chances of the band surviving to make another album looked doubtful and a graceful bow out, probable.

At times, somewhere around the …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC
Dec, 01
2012

THE CRIBS INTERVIEW

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December 2012, Spindle Magazine Issue 6

If there’s one thing that becomes immediately obvious while watching The Cribs play to a packed out crowd in Brighton tonight, it’s that the departure of Johnny Marr from the band has done nothing to diminish their sheer, rabble-rousing force. If anything, they’re stronger than ever returning to their original set up of three-man band. “One thing I would say is I definitely don’t see us looking to take on another member again. I think we’ve done that …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC
Dec, 01
2012

KARIN PARK INTERVIEW

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December 2012, Spindle Magazine Issue 6

“If a feminist means someone who works actively for women’s decisions in society, then I am a feminist.”

My question to Swedish singer-songwriter, Karin Park, comes after ten minutes of discussing how she fails to conform to traditional female roles, her perceived lack of decent female musicians and how, even after 10 years of working as a musician, she still encounters sound engineers who think she’s incapable of putting up her own equipment. “That would …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC
Dec, 01
2012

TUPACALYPSE: HOLOGRAM CONCERTS

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December 2012, Spindle Magazine Issue 6

Isn’t one of the, much vaunted, signs of the apocalypse the dead rising from their graves and walking among us? hence part- though admittedly it’s pretty terrifying even without the double whammy of our impending doom- of the hysteria surrounding the recent cannibalistic, 28 days later-esque stories that have been splashed over the pages of the Daily Mail and, more worryingly still, reputable papers.

Yup, these are disturbing times indeed.

Formerly, …read more

CULTURE, MUSIC
Dec, 01
2012

SCISSOR SISTERS INTERVIEW

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December 2012, Spindle Magazine Issue 6

Somewhere, inside all of us, is that person we know we’re destined to be, if only we were given the chance. Sure, the world sees you as the 40-year-old postal worker who still lives with his mother and suffers from an unfortunate amount of flop sweat, but you know better. You know deep down you’re Tony, the cruise ship singer who cuts a swathe through the scores of middle aged women, melting hearts with a single thrust of those gyrating pelvic muscles. Tony, I see you.

Inside my head? Oh darling, I’m …read more

FEATURE-MUSIC, INTERVIEW, MUSIC
Nov, 27
2012

THE CAST OF CHEERS INTERVIEW

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November 27 2012, Spindle Magazine

“This is all totally a movie,” Conor speculates. “This is totally some stupid horror movie when we’re all joking around and you say ‘Bloody Mary’ three times and then a drink haunts you.”

It’s a dark and stormy Halloween night. While the wind and rain lash violently down outside, I’m sequestered in a small, dingy room lined with mirrors —  of the kind usually to be found at the back of an adult film shop, or possibly in one of the …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC
Nov, 20
2012

DON’T JUDGE CHRIS BROWN

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November 20 2012, Spindle Magazine

We’ve been doing our best to ignore Chris Brown for a while now. Admittedly, this hasn’t always been the easiest of tasks. It’s as if he has some giant appendage extending directly from his forehead that he keeps waving about in order to get our attention and occasionally prodding us with. A bit like a unicorn.

For example, just as the furore of torch-wielding villagers and vigilante mobs following the brutal attack of ex-girlfriend Rihanna had died down to the point where people presumably not on …read more

CULTURE, MUSIC
Oct, 24
2012

SIMON’S LATEST SCANDALS

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October 24 2012, Spindle Magazine

What’s that we hear? That dastardly Simon Cowell has been up to some wily old tricks? We’re shocked. If the rumours that abound are to be believed— and we do so, unreservedly—  it’s been a busy week for the Svengali, who has been accused by that yappy little Irish fellow of sabotaging the chances of some X Factor pups who supposedly threaten the position of Cowell’s wunderkinds, One Direction (lending an unnecessary weight to that other rumour he so loves to propagate: namely that there’s …read more

CULTURE, MUSIC
Oct, 10
2012

WHY? REVIEW

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October 10 2012, Spindle Magazine

The Old Market, Monday 8 October

It’s no secret that I’ve not always managed to maintain an icy exterior of journalistic unbias in the face of Why? and the casual observer, who’s read my interview with Yoni Wolf- I’m nothing if not optimistic- may question my ability to keep a keen and dispassionate reviewer’s eye when watching their gig at the Old Market in Hove on tonight. And okay, fine: they’d probably be right to. (I’m positioned somewhere near the front, …read more

MUSIC
Sep, 18
2012

WHY? INTERVIEW

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September 18 2012, Spindle Magazine

Confession: coherency isn’t always something I’m blessed with. Especially when I’ve got someone like Yoni Wolf on the line: epiphanic lyricist whose prowess at delivering his neuroses over a fusion of hip hop and indie rock has been lauded from everyone from the major music press to a body building website’s forum (the response to the suggestion he’s the best lyricist currently making music, “u mad he’s a white Jewish indie kid [sic]?” an …read more

INTERVIEW, MUSIC
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