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INTERVIEW: Happy Mondays’ Bez – “Bees remind me of myself – they have a short attention span, and they are always buzzing!”

July 16, 2019 0

Legendary Manchester band Happy Mondays have announced a marathon twenty-nine date Greatest Hits Tour for October, November and December 2019 which includes Belfast Limelight 1 on Wed 4th Dec. The Happy Mondays’ classic line-up of […]

INTERVIEW: Gomez’ Ben Ottewell Talks 20 years of ‘Liquid Skin’

July 10, 2019 0

Mercury Prize-winning, British band Gomez release the 20th-anniversary release of their triumphant second album ‘Liquid Skin’ on July 12th. Abbey Road’s Frank Arkwright has delved into the archives to remaster ‘Liquid Skin from the original […]

INTERVIEW: Shaun Ryder, “The sex and drugs have gone and now it’s just the rock ‘n’ roll”

June 25, 2019 0

As Hunter S. Thompson once gloriously wrote, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” The Happy Mondays seem to have lived their career by this perfect quote and their current touring machine embraces […]

INTERVIEW: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets discuss new album, ‘And Now for the Whatchamacallit’

May 22, 2019 0

Perth natives Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are playing a headline Belfast show at Voodoo on Wednesday 22nd May 2019. Renowned for their crowd surfing inducing, mosh pit embracing live show as best described by The Music […]

INTERVIEW: With Mike Scott of The Waterboys, “What I love most is making the music, and being inside the music”

May 20, 2019 0

Continuing the blazing trail set by 2015’s acclaimed Modern Blues and 2017’s top ten-reaching double album Out Of All This Blue, on May 24th The Waterboys will release their new album Where The Action Is, […]

INTERVIEW with JAMES ATKIN (EMF) “I was too busy being a pop star to know what was going on”

May 16, 2019 0

EMF frontman James Atkin has topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, enjoyed platinum-selling album success, received an Ivor Novello nomination for his songwriting and toured the world many times over. He has […]

BOOK REVIEW: John Lennon and Jean Jullien – Imagine

June 11, 2019 0

The 1971 hit “Imagine” is probably the most globally recognised solo hit by John Lennon following his career with The Beatles. Whilst Oasis used the hook/riff from “Imagine”, the message of peace and to desist […]

BOOK REVIEW: Basquiat By Julian Voloj and Søren Mosdal

May 31, 2019 0

It is well known that Jean-Michel Basquiat aka SAMO was a renowned neo-expressionist artist who gifted the world with numerous “provocative” works defining the New York art scene of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. […]

BOOK REVIEW: The League of Extraordinary Gentleman Century: 1969 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill

April 3, 2019 0

Alan Moore’s Watchmen is recognized in Time’s List of the 100 Best Novels in the English language published since 1923. This achievement is especially significant since Watchmen was the only graphic novel included in this […]