David Bowie: an appreciation
“It ain’t easy to get to heaven when you’re going down” A life of surprises – and an exit to match. No more David Bowie: as cruel a rug-pull [...]
Articles by Gary Kaill
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No Passouts: Bill Hicks – 1992
So. Son. Tell me. What have you done with your life? Huh? Lemme hear it. What have you done? No – don’t tell me. I can guess. What is it? Something selfless – [...]
Saint Etienne – Manchester Albert Hall
“Oh my!” beams Sarah Cracknell. “Just look at you at all. You look lovely! And this – wow.” She motions around the hall in wonder. While locals [...]
Yael Naim – Older
Those of us who swooned to Yael Naim‘s 2008 breakthrough Yael Naim and David Donatien and then drifted away, distracted by a million and one other clamourers for our [...]
Marc Bolan and T. Rex – Unchained: Home Recordings and Studio Outtakes
Wham, glam, thank you, ma’am. One for the Marc Bolan collector, sure, but not necessarily the completist. There’s little room for doubting the Edsel [...]
Susanne Sundfør – Manchester Deaf Institute
Consider the deep-seated intrigues and impossible candour of Susanne Sundfør‘s Ten Love Songs. Brace yourself for yet another draught of its dark romanticism. For Ten [...]
The Staves – Manchester Albert Hall
“We’re going to play a song now by a band we love and we hope you do, too. This is a song called ‘Feel’ and it’s by Bombay Bicycle Club.” [...]
A Carefully Planned Festival #5 – Manchester
That unsettling, but hardly surprising, meme from earlier in the year, where removing all non-female acts (to be precise – any act simply not containing a female [...]
The Spook School – Try To Be Hopeful
Second album from Edinburgh’s ‘queer-trans-punk’ agitators is a thrill both sensory and cerebral: big tunes, big ideas. A tender and compassionate document [...]
Desperate Journalist – Manchester Sound Control
Why do we even do this? More than ever, a million and one outlets race to tell you they were there, spluttering their love or their indignant rage. Toss a coin. It was [...]
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