Iggy Pop
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Loud, angry, funny, and somewhat out of this world, The Lovely Eggs could be just what we need to see us through this weird and frightening lockdown.
"According to The Nolans - I gobbed on them. But I can’t recall that. It's hardly government changing politics is it? Gobbing on a Nolan. But they say I did it. It’s in their book, but I have no recollection of doing such a terrible thing," Skids frontman Richard Jobson on the band's appearance on Top if the Pops
Sex Pistols – you go years without encountering one – and then three come along at once. No sooner had I finished recounting the exploits of John Lydon and Paul Cook at Camden Rocks, than I got the chance to have a chat with Glen Matlock ahead of the release of his new solo album Good To Go. Replaced by Sid Vicious – so the legend […]
Something of an alternative supergroup, Shriekback came into being – at least as Barry Andrews tells it – after he was doggedly pursued by bassist Dave Allen. Allen, looking to form a new band after the demise of Gang of Four, was keen to hook up with the keyboard player who’d quit XTC, after losing a power struggle with Andy Partridge. Initially reluctant, Andrews […]
More than 40 years after The Damned lit the blue touch paper for the punk rock revolution, original drummer Rat Scabies is busier than ever. Since quitting his old band amid some rancour in the late ’90s, he’s played in numerous outfits and developed interesting sidelines in cigar box guitar-making and the little matter of hunting for the holy […]
Bauhaus drummer Kevin Haskins was behind the kit for one of the most iconic groups of the late ’70s and early ’80s. Now he’s got together with Cleopatra Records to document his life and times with the band in a glossy, coffee table art book. Featuring largely unseen memorabilia, Bauhaus Undead is Haskins personal account of the goth rockers turbulent history, from their inception […]
Less that a week after our interview with one C86 alumnus in The Wedding Present’s David Gedge, another of the bands on that hallowed cassette (ask your parents kids!) has come to our attention. The latest in our growing line of 2016 comeback stars (see also Khartomb and The Vapors) Mighty Mighty have just released their first new music in 28 years.
Iggy Pop has teamed up with Kill Bill guitar hero Hotei for a new single Walking Through The Night. A dark tale of a stroll through the seamier side of Tokyo, it’s the latest cut from Hotei’s first international album Strangers, out now on Spinefarm Records. Iggy, who also worked with the Japanese on How The Cookie Crumbles, says the song is about ‘feeling alone, sexually […]