"It's not where you're from it's where you're at", was the famous phrase coined by Ian Brown to describe the attitude of the second summer of love generation. Seventeen years later, as i meet him in an Italian cafe in North London, I ask Ian Brown where he's at now.

The skies must be pink in their world. Full of energy and childlike wonder, and names such as Ninja and Silke, it is as if they crawled out of a mystical adventure tree from an Enid Blyton novel.

Christian Vogel

Onward Christian soldiers

Christian Vogel, purveyor of multifarious electronic grooves, has done a lot to make techno interesting. Clash flew to Barcelona to catch up with the genre's renegade son as he prepares to drop another eccentric long-player...

Big Star

Lost in space

When Big Star, the band who played alternative music before we were calling it that, announced that they would be tentatively reuniting for a few shows in 1993, it came as a pretty hefty surprise to everyone familiar with their turbulent past.