The Julie Ruin – Glasgow Art School
What if there was a revolution and no-one came? It happened, once. 20 years ago, it was possible to go and see Kathleen Hanna play in the upstairs room of a pub to an [...]
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Various – Action Time Vision: a Story of Independent UK Punk 1976-1979
One of the – many – narratives to emerge from the late 70s British punk movement was the notion of ‘do-it-yourself’, of self-reliance, and a [...]
My Kind Of Town: Rosie Crow on Cornwall
Outsider art. There are connotations, usually to do with the state of mind of the creator. But it can also be simpler than that. Rosie Crow lives somewhere that’s [...]
Nick Cave’s One More Time With Feeling hits home formats
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have announced the release on DVD and blu-ray of One More Time With Feeling – the feature film about the making of their acclaimed album [...]
Black Grape – Carlisle Old Fire Station
It’s a full 20 years since Mrs W&G last tried to see Black Grape. On that occasion, undisclosed – although easy to surmise – backstage issues meant they [...]
Chapter & Verse: Young Romance
Ah… the promise of Young Romance. Their debut single, ‘Pale’ was a teen kitchen sink drama in minature, Shelagh Delaney in under 120 seconds of buzzsaw [...]
The Listening Post: albums round-up
The critical – and public – enthusiasm for Honeyblood‘s self-titled debut was probably a surprise even to the Scottish duo, yet this accomplished follow up [...]
Sleevenotes: November’s vinyl news
Max Richter’s new label StudioRichter releases a 180g 12” edition of ‘On The Nature Of Daylight’ on 16th December, the theme from the soundtrack to Denis [...]
ABBA reunite for digital project
All four members of ABBA are to reunite for a new digital entertainment project in collaboration with music manager Simon Fuller. The Swedish group have not formally [...]
Black Grape get the deluxe treatment
Radioactive/UMC will release a three-disc deluxe edition of Black Grape’s It’s Great When You’re Straight…Yeah on 4th November. Black Grape was founded in 1993 by [...]
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