Death May Be Your Santa Claus is the second album by British underground group Second Hand. Released in 1971, parts of their music had also been used for the controversial 1969 film of the same name. The fact that Mott The Hoople had a track by the same name on their 1971 album Brain Capers […]
After some weeks of touring, travelling, investigating the universe from both a musical and philosophical perspective, after discovering Krakow, Warsaw, Inowroclaw, Gdynia, Sopot and Gdansk in Poland wondering about the future of Riverside after the tragic death of their guitarist Piotr Grudzinski and learning unpronounceable words. After jamming on stage with Theo Travis in Veruno and […]
Simon and Garfunkel’s Mrs Robinson from The Graduate (1967) released in a different single version kept Hugo Montenegro’s cover version of Ennio Morricone’s The Good, The Bad And The Ugly from the No.1 spot in the Uk in 1968. Director, Mike Nichols had approached Clive Davis at Columbia to license music for his film. Initially sceptical, […]
At the age of 87 and after composing over 500 scores for film and televison, Ennio Morricone has finally won an Oscar for the music from Quentin Tarantino’s film, The Hateful Eight. Although Morricone won an honorary Academy Award in 2007 he had never won for a specific soundtrack. He has previously been nominated 5 times: […]
Massive Attack released a digital version of the Ritual Spirit EP on the 28th January to coincide with British dates that will continue into Europe in February. The EP features collaborations with London rapper Roots Manuva, UK singer Azekel, Scottish 2014 Mercury Music Prize winners, Young Fathers and heralds the return of former collaborator, Tricky on Take […]
In the seventies in Liverpool (actually Birkenhead and The Wirral to those of you that know the area), I played guitar with some school bands none of which had very exciting names, I can’t even remember what they were called they were so insignificant. But for a short time one of them was called Opal […]