Song of the day – 260: Talulah Gosh (the original interview)
“Each time we play live we always repeat the magic words ‘punk rock, punk rock’ to each other just to reminds ourselves why we’re here”
Plan B Magazine #0
OK. Here’s the first in the series. I’m still trying to figure out the best way of doing this, so apologies if any of this seems clumsy. I’m planning on putting these up twice a week until we’ve got the entire run of Plan B Magazine back up online. Any suggestions on how to streamline […]
Jonathan Richman
In response to a request from a friend on Twitter, I’ve collected together some of my more recent writings about Jonathan. And from tomorrow, you can listen to an incredible early demo of ‘The Morning Of Our Lives’ over here. ——————————————————————————————————————————– (from Plan B #18, originally printed in The Stranger) I first heard Jonathan Richman […]
Song of the day – 94: Neverever
Ah, but I love Facebook sometimes. An old Brighton friend tipped me off to a brace of awesome new femme-pop sounds, this group first. Damn, she knows me well: how can I resist such outrageously harmonised and resonant pop? Everything about this is so, so crush-worthy. Bangs damn it but there’s so much of this […]
Song of the day – 68: The Velvet Underground and Nico
For decades now, I’ve steered clear of admitting to a love for either The Velvet Underground or Nico, but damn it. This is the first time I’ve seen this footage. And yes, I used to be fascinated by Nico – a couple of the shows she performed towards the end of her life were among […]
Song of the day – 64: Helen And The Horns
It’s my birthday today, and I was looking for a special Song Of The Day to celebrate it with. So James Brown over on Facebook suggested this. Helen And The Horns – Freight Train It seems like a very appropriate choice to me. Two-thirds of the horns came directly from the college band I was […]
Song of the day – 19: The Pastels
I know you weren’t wondering where it all began, and this wasn’t where it all began anyway, and also I was really wanting to post a link to ‘Love It’s Getting Better’, the sixth song on Unfair Kind Of Fame, but couldn’t find one that was appropriate… So I thought maybe I could post this […]
Spotlight – 41: Bitch Prefect
This recommendation comes courtesy of the fine Eternal Soundcheck blog. As Matt writes, “Bitch Prefect are from Adelaide and play really nice simple pop music – Think the Clean, Velvet Underground, a bit of Half/Japanese and mix it up with the retardation that growing up in a small city town in Australia would do to […]
Spotlight – 7: The Pastels/Tenniscoats
Notes written on my iWhatever about the forthcoming Pastels and Tenniscoats collaboration Two Sunsets on the plane flying into Perth at sunset for the Revelation Film Festival. Now if I was writing this up for a Guardian or Plan B article then obviously I would structure and make sense of my initial impressions, but I’m […]