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IN THIS ISSUE...
The Kooks
TB, tantrums and tonsilitis
"We're a pop band who writes pop songs and we have attitude and we're people. We're not plastic; we're not trying to be celebrities. I think with our music, the stuff that we're writing at the moment, there's a lot of stuff we're trying to talk about..."
The Magic Numbers
Bowled Over
“It was kind of surreal that we had to wait that long for things to come together,” he remembers, before protesting, “but what were we meant to do, grab our little sisters at 11 years old and force them, like ‘come on sis, play the fuckin’ bass, man’?
Larrikin Love
Amorous Rock 'n' Roll
Larrikin Love are like feral creatures let loose for the day. Clash meets the band in Brighton, amidst their tour supporting The Kooks. After chasing some fat seagulls in the park, they climb up drainpipes on the Brighton Pavilion and make up dance routines on the spot.
Andrew Weatherall
Long in the sabre tooth
Weatherall cut his melodic teeth in the hedonism of the exploding acid house scene. Mainly in the psychedelic fairyland of Madchester.
Albert Hammond Jr
Yours to Stroke
“Hearing Buddy Holly for the first time really was a life changing experience. One day I hated music and the next, I just fell in love with it.”
The Byrds
Flying high once more
In the decade that spanned The Byrds’ existence, the band found themselves protagonists of folk-rock, psychedelic-rock, jazz-rock and - after discovering and drafting in Gram Parsons - country rock.
Smokey Robinson
Motown's main Miracle
It’s no small feat to be dubbed “America’s greatest living poet” by Bob Dylan, hardly an outside contender for the title himself, but then Smokey Robinson is truly a songwriter that has united his country in song - all 4000 of them!
The KLF - Chill Out
The truth has always been stranger than the fiction that surrounds Bill Drumond and Jimmy Cauty.
The Longcut Vs Mogwai
It was a case of North versus South as our two acts clashed in curiousity
ROCK AND RULES
Dave Stewart
FASHION
The Noisettes, Bat For Lashes
ELECTRIC SELECTION
Steve Milanese, Mountaineer, Lithops, Enders Room
ONES TO WATCH
Candie Payne, CSS, The 1990's, Loney, Dear...
THE LAST TIME
Dustins Bar Mitzvah
WRITE ON
The Brakes
The Long Blondes
Squarepusher
A Hawk And A Hacksaw
The Charlatans
Andrea Parker
Battle
The Magic Numbers
Mogwai
Jarvis Cocker
Oasis
Arab Strap
The Clash
