The last post on his website was six years ago, his music reaches from dense complex grooves, raw innovation to eccentricity. I love an intellectual with a self deprecating sense of humour, Czukay’s and his former band CAN’s massive influence on me and the world is hard to gauge. Here he is in 1979 riding […]
An odd choice of mood for a Christmas special as Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush duet on Roy Harper’s classic song of regret. Another Day was originally released on Harper’s first album for Harvest Records, Flat, Baroque And Berserk (1970) the album reaching No.20 on the UK chart. The song was also covered by This […]
Losing Leonard Cohen at 82 and Leon Russell at 74 is tragic but 57 is just too young to leave. Pete Burns died suddenly of a heart attack on 23rd October after a life of brilliant eccentricity that in his own inimitable way he managed to manifest in a down to earth manner that made him just […]
Another hopeless eighties video showing that the encroaching music biz monster is always on the periphery, ready to pounce and do its best to make something great, not so great. An awful, faux Duran Duran video clip embarrassing the singer, desperately trying to find a reason to include the uncomfortable band members, using amateurish lighting, […]
Although The Icicle works were formed in Liverpool in 1980, they didn’t release their self-titled debut until 1984. The band’s line-up of Ian McNabb on guitar and vocals, Chris Layhe on bass and Chris Sharrock on drums contributed some powerful melodic Pop to the Liverpool scene at the time. Frustratingly, different songs from their debut […]
By the time The Pale Fountains had released this single they were already struggling. The frustration of critical acclaim and commercial disinterest had haunted them since their first album. Pacific Street was released by Virgin Records in 1984 and reached No.84 in the charts, their second and final album, From Across The Kitchen Table only made it […]