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A BAND TO BLOW
YOUR MIND!
GRIMES
INTERVIEW
MATT HEALY
GOES LOOKING
FOR GOD... AND
FINDS HIMSELF
JOHN LYDON
PAGES OF
REVIEWS
ALL THE
MUSIC YOU
NEED THIS
MONTH
CHVRCHES
THE STONES
PRIMAL
SCREAM
T H ELIRL
F U RY
S TO
MAY 2016
NE
PA G E TOW O
OF
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ROLLING
12 STONES
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COVER: AUSTIN HARGRAVE, JUSTIN THOMAS, TOM SHEEHAN PHOTOS THIS PAGE: REX, GETTY, ALEX LAKE, JUSTIN THOMAS, AUSTIN HARGRAVE, RACHAEL WRIGHT, ROSS HALFIN, GUY EPPEL
OASIS
CHVRCHES
Capturing triumph,
mania, indoor rollercoasters and a conquest
of stage fright as the trio
reach the Japanese leg
of their tour.
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60
JOHN LYDON
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32
PARQUET
COURTS
COVER
STORY
THE 1975
PAGE
62
Melding anxiety
and exhaustion
with perky tunes,
Americas best
underground band
are definitely not
the slackers you
think they are.
M AY 2 O 1 6
MAY 2016
PA G E T W O
OF TWO
UNDERWORLD
PAGE
68
Florence Welch:
taking it to church.
PAGE
74
PAGE
98
GRIMES
Claire Boucher
was a terrible
child, an asshole
who grew up to be
pops art-punk
outlier. And
she owes it all
well, a little bit of
it anyway to
Mariah Carey.
PAGE
80
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Bobby Gillespie and
Andrew Innes
recount 30 years
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Brian Sanders
from London,
Maria and Pat
Moore, from
Southampton
Sanders had his
shoulder broken in
a stampede for the
exit at Le Bataclan.
When he lost
consciousness,
the Moores were
on hand to drag
him up a back
alleyway to safety.
We all had to
come back to
finish the gig,
says Sanders.
DAVID WOLFF-PATRICK
ODD COUPLING
CHER
Beauty and
the beats:
Flav and
Brigitte.
WORDS: EAMONN FORDE. PHOTOS: PHOTOSHOT, ALAMY, REX, PRESS ASSOCIATION, ALPHA PRESS
BRIGITTE NIELSEN
Gnome-like hype man for Public Enemy,
Flavor Flav and Danish model/actress/singer/
Sylvester Stallones ex Brigitte Nielsen
had a long history together on reality TV.
Despite the fact she loomed over him like a
skyscraper beside a pop-up tent, they got
together during 2004s The Surreal Life,
transitioning into their
own show the next year,
the poignantly named
Strange Love. Inevitably,
a love life played out in
front of the cameras was
like dropping a lit match
onto a Texaco forecourt
and it all blew apart
by seasons end. Yo!
Bum flush that show.
Date of relationship:
Lord Cha
Between July 2004
rl
Jareth: a es and
and April 2005.
ka Tom
Cruise an
d Cher, 19
:
The ex factor
Sinitta and
.
Brad Pitt, 1988
THE ROLLING STONES OUTSIDE THEIR SHARED EDITH GROVE FLAT 1962
M AY 2 0 1 6
KEITH RICHARDS
exclusively spills the
beans on just some of the
rare and never-beforeseen items on show at the
Stones new exhibition.
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AFTER ID
TAKEN ENOUGH
ACID AND
FINISHED
PAINTING MY
BOOTS, OK,
WHATS NEXT?
THE GUITAR.
KEITHS CUSTOM
PAINTED LES PAUL
Unisex appeal:
har
Ric ds with Anita
Pallenberg, wearing
his satin shirt,1969.
KR: The reason I look like I do is I steal most of these clothes from my old ladies. Anita
[Pallenberg] in those days, we just used to buy something and say not for one or the other
because itll fit either of us. Style is unconscious. Its like that other word cool. If you wan
to be cool, if you have to think about it, then you aint. Also, Ive got a frame that fits just
about anything. Even if its too big it looks good. Otherwise, like I say, I dont think about
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BANQUET, OLYMPIC STUDIOS 1968
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HOLLYWOOD?
IM NOT
HAVING BAKED
GOODS FROM
A MAN!
Lets
Do Lunch
With...
JOHN COOPER
CLARKE
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Favourite restaurant?
Dan Tanas, Santa Monica
Boulevard, LA. A proper
family-run Italian restau
Most hated foodstuf
Tripe. We had it regula
Manchester in the 50s.
Dream dining compa
My family. Were round
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about Kevin: Dexys
(from left, Lucy
Morgan, Sean Read
and Rowland) in
The Premises,
Hackney, London.
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ANDREW COTTERILL
interpretations we dont
describe them as covers, he
says flintily of vintage pop
songs that remain close to his
TITLE: Let The Record
heart. These include the Bee
Show: Dexys Do Irish
Gees To Love Somebody, Rod
And Country Soul
Stewarts You Wear It Well and
RECORDED: The
Joni Mitchells Both Sides Now.
Premises, Hackney,
I associate You Wear It
London
Well with finishing a summer
TRACKS: Women Of
job at Butlins in 1972, that endIreland, Carrickfergus,
of-summer melancholy, he
The Town I Loved So
says. I did wonder how all
Well, Ill Take You Home
these songs would flow
Again, Kathleen, To Love
together, but it works. Follow
Somebody, Both Sides
Now, You Wear It Well,
your intuition and something
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
good tends to happen.
OUT: 3 June
Of course, this isnt the first
FACT: Women Of Ireland
time Rowland has recorded
features an appearance
a covers record: in 1999,
by Helen OHara, Dexys
he released the much-maligned
violinist and Rowlands
(but again critically
partner in the 80s.
reappraised) solo album, My
Beauty, famously showing the
singer wearing womens lingerie on the
cover. Q asks if Do Irish And Country Soul
should be seen as its follow-up. I dont
see any parallels, he replies. It was a long
time ago and I was a different person then.
I havent listened to it for yonks. Thinking
about it in terms of this record doesnt
interest me.
This isnt a stop-gap, he adds. Ive
put my heart and soul into this record.
Ive taken as much care with these songs
as I do with my own.
Given Rowlands long-held reputation as
an arch-perfectionist, its an approach the
world and his ever-intuitive mother would
have probably guessed at. PAT GILBERT
MUST KNOW
IM SECONDGENERATION
IRISH AND THOSE
SONGS ARE A DEEP
PART OF ME.
KEVIN ROWLAND
INADDINGTHEECHOPIPELINE
AND REVERB
AS WE SPEAK
WHO:
GUNS N ROSES
WHO: RICHARD
ASHCROFT
The ex-Verve
singer is set to
release his new
solo LP, These
People. Were
in a very nihilistic age but I also wanna
possibly project something that gives
us a sense of hope, says Ashcroft.
DUE: 20 May
WHO: BEYONC
Following
hit single
Formation,
it is reported
Beyonc is
readying the
release of a new solo LP next month.
There are also rumours that her Jay Z
collaboration will be out later this year.
DUE: April TBC
WHO: BRITNEY
SPEARS
According to
her manager,
Spearss new
album is 80
per cent done.
This is almost like Britney meets
The Weeknd. Its a lot of really cool
stuff, reports Larry Rudolph.
DUE: TBC
WHO: SLAVES
The Tunbridge
Wells punk
duo are busy
working on the
follow-up to
2015s Mercurynominated Are You Satisfied? album.
They describe the as-yet-untitled new
record as heavy, dirty and fun.
DUE: TBC
M AY 2 0 1 6
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ON YOUR
PALEHOUND
MOLLY
Twenty-one-year-old Boston
singer Ellen Kempner first
emerged in 2013 with wonky
lo-fi EP Bent Nail. Since then
shes beefed up her sound into
delightfully gutsy fuzz-pop.
Taken from last years debutproper Dry Food, Molly begins as
a tightly knotted ball of postpunk before unspooling into a
sunshine pop burst of a chorus.
For fans of: Courtney
Barnett, Smith Westerns,
The Lemonheads
I Composed by Ellen Kempner. Published by
Palehound. P & C 2015 Heavenly Recordings,
under exclusive licence to [PIAS]. Licensed
courtesy of Heavenly Recordings / [PIAS].
Available on Dry Food.
SUNFLOWER
BEAN
EASIER SAID
M AY 2 0 1 6
HINDS
SAN DIEGO
SIMON SARIN
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SAN LORENZO
THOMAS
COHEN
BLOOM FOREVER
KEVIN
MORBY
I HAVE BEEN TO
THE MOUNTAIN
I WANTED TO MAKE
SOMETHING THAT WAS
QUITE ORCHESTRAL
WITHOUT THERE BEING
ORCHESTRATION.
THOMAS COHEN
Whats next?
I am going to San Francisco
to make my next video I am
doing it half there and half in
[South East London suburb]
Eltham. Thats the look I am
going for, and the sound I went
for as well. I am already writing
my next record. The musicians
I love Townes Van Zandt,
Lou Reed, Tim Buckley
just kept making records.
And that is my ambition.
I Composed by Sveinn Jnsson / Thomas
Cohen. Published by 37 Adventures. P & C
2016 Thomas Cohen. Licensed courtesy of
Stolen Recordings / [PIAS]. Available on
Bloom Forever, out 6 May 2016.
YAK
SMILE
Wolverhampton/New Zealand
trio Yak made their name from
ferocious live shows where setlists were abandoned and singer
Oli Burslem hurled instruments
into the crowd. Smile shows they
can write some killer tunes, too.
If Nick Cave had scored Sam
Peckinpahs blood-splattered
Western, The Wild Bunch, it
would have sounded like this.
For fans of: The Birthday
Party, The Eighties Matchbox
B-Line Disaster, The Jon Spencer
Blues Explosion
I Written by Oliver Burslem, Andy Jones,
Elliot Rawson. Published by Truth+Justice
c/o Universal. P & C 2015 Yak, under exclusive
licence to Kobalt Label Services Limited.
Licensed courtesy of Yak, under exclusive
licence to Kobalt Label Services.
www.facebook.com/yakyakyak. Available
on 13 May 2016 Digital, CD, Vinyl.
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A WAY TO
SAY GOODBYE
ONDEADWAVES
BLACKBIRD
NZCA
LINES
TWO HEARTS
POLIA
WEDDING
GWENNO
CHWYLDRO
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MOTHERS
COPPER
MINES
WILD
NOTHING
REICHPOP
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Why Mothers?
I was making a lot of work
about animals nesting
behaviour I had a pet rabbit
and thought it was interesting
that the female rabbits, when
they get pregnant, will start
tearing their fur out with their
teeth and use it to make a nest
for their babies. I was reading
about the sacrifices animals
make when having kids and
it made me relate songwriting
to motherhood. You are
creating a vessel in which
your stuff lies and you have
to let it go when you finish.
Whats Copper Mines
about?
Its centred around this idea
of feeling really far away from
someone who is sort of
unattainable. Its also talking
about not knowing if youre
good enough for someone
and being aware of your
weaknesses in that way.
I Written by Kristine Leschper, Matthew
Anderegg, Drew Kirby, McKendrick
Bearden. Published by Copyright Control.
P & C 2014. Licensed courtesy of Wichita
Recordings. mothersathens.com. Available
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your sleeve
FURTHER
LISTENING...
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Michael Jacksons
Dangerous: Illuminating.
PHOTOSHOT
e, and Banksy
ink Tank .
urite sleeves is
xperiences
a colourful,
n into what
to theres
ing about
Likewise, Bjrks Vespertine
is so delicate and clean the
exact sound of the record
delicate perfection. Its a
wonderful fusion.
For me, the strange covers
are the ones where the art
doesnt fit the music in any way.
Im just going to leave the cover
of Led Zeppelin III here with you.
That, to me, makes no sense.
Neither does the artwork for
Spiritualizeds Sweet Heart,
Sweet Light: Huh? inside a
green octagon. Music of such
depth iconified by what looks like
a toothpaste brand.
Does it matter though? Does
ruin the album
or you? Or do you
nd up liking the
rtwork if you
ove the music?
There is still
symbolism
within cover art.
REX
The bafing release strategy of Kanye Wests The Life Of Pablo has called into
question what an album even is these d
D i L k h had enough...
The expansive
Kanye West:
is there no end
to his talent?
it refers to the
Madison Square
Garden playback,
Kanye starts
ad-libbing: This is
the bonus track,
even though there
are three more to go.
At least on my digital
copy there are.
Perhaps the physical
version, which should
definitely, probably,
possibly be out by the
time you read this,
ifferent
again.
Works in progress:
(from the top) albums
by PJ Harvey, Grimes,
Joanna Newsom, and
the exhaustive 1965-66
Bob Dylan boxset.
IM NOT SURE
I WANT TO KNOW
HOW THE SAUSAGE
IS MADE BEFORE
IVE HAD A CHANCE
TO EAT IT.
The most difficult question
in Brian Enos famous box of
creativity-prompting Oblique
Strategies cards is: Is it
finished? Its hard to let go of an
album. This month, Grimes tells
Q that she could have worked on
Art Angels forever; Joanna
Newsom mixed and mastered
last years Divers 11 times before
she was satisfied. Only Kanye has
turned this perfectionist fiddling
into a theatrical performance.
In doing so, he calls into question
what the album format means.
Even though the ease of releasing
27
Interrogate
the stars.
You could
win 25!
The Cult
ith bishops
and knights
pitted in combat,
rumoured
origins in sixthcentury India
plus the moment
upon reaching
the other side
when a lowly
pawn can be
suddenly reborn
as an all-powerful queen, chess feels
like a good fit for Ian Astbury.
The shamanic frontman of The
Cult is not only famously open to
mystic philosophies, but also a student
of martial arts. However, as chessmen
whizz through the air in the lounge of
Londons The Gore hotel, it becomes
apparent that neither he nor his Cult
co-pilot, straight-talking guitarist
Billy Duffy are grandmasters-in-themaking, not that Astbury hasnt tried.
My brother tried to teach me
chess, but he started using these crazy
Russian moves so I never took to it, he
explains. Tarot cards yes, chess no.
With a history like The Cults,
you can see why the cards would be
more useful. Formed in punks wake,
Astbury and Duffy emerged into the
early-80s goth scene before cranking
up to stadium rock level via the albums
Love and Electric in the middle of the
decade. Remaining a transatlantic rock
juggernaut albeit with the duo being
joined by an oft-changing line-up of
backing musicians The Cult split at
the start of this century as the pair
explored other projects; most notably
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Astbury found
himself sitting in for
hero Jim Morrison
in a revived line-up
of The Doors in
2002. With the
LA-dwelling duo
firmly reunited as
The Cult since 2005,
and the release of
10th studio album
Hidden City earlier
this year, the cards
have been looking
good for The Cult,
not that Astbury
is ready to relax.
We were called
national treasures in
an article the other
day, he grimaces.
No! No! No! Id rather
be a national disgrace than a
national treasure! And with that
another pawn flies our way.
Well, if chess isnt the way to
test Astbury and Duffys wits,
what better than a round of Cash
For Questions? Cheque, mate
You changed your name from
Death Cult after releasing an EP
and a single. Did it take you that
long to consider how being called
Death Cult might have limited
your commercial ambitions?
Penny Tanner, Hulme
Billy Duffy: We wrote our first songs
in the spring of 1983 and went out as
Death Cult because Ian had been in
Southern Death Cult, so it was an
Whats in
a name?
(above) Death
Cult in 1983;
(below) this
is what goths
used to be
like, kids.
30
M AY 2 0 1 6
Hardcore
pawn: (above)
some epic
manspreading
from Astbury
as the band
deal with your
dumbass
questions;
(below)
Morrissey
and Marr
a Billy Duffy
matchmaking
hit.
CASH FOR
QUESTIONS
Sells Sanctuary was a Top 40 radio hit
in Seattle, while Love was a formative
album there and we all know what
came out of Seattle. We came along
and said: We love post-punk music
Joy Division, Public Image Ltd. But we
also love Zeppelin and The Doors.
It was a fusion they related to. Theres
a song on Love called Nirvana and
people have intimated to me that
everyone was at that show
Ian, is it true you own Robert
Duvalls yellow
eckerchief from
Apocalypse Now?
Do you have any
other memorabilia?
Terry Black, via Q Mail
IA: No, but I do have a
helmet signed by Martin
Sheen that says: Never
get out of the boat.
BD: That became a bit of a
catchphrase in the band
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THE
YE
OF
LIVING
ANG R
OUSLY
FOR A
MOMENT
OR TWO,
MATTHEW
HEALYS
hand rests upon my shoulder. We are in the
basement of his managers office, listening
to a playback of The 1975s new album,
and somewhere between a hairdressers
appointment and soundcheck at
Hammersmith Apollo, Healy has come
to join us.
He rattles down the stairs, reaches across
to embrace his press officer, fills the room
with a bright kind of energy: a flash of wild
hair and warm enthusiasm. And all the while
his hand stays right there on my shoulder,
resting. Its not that its creepy, or sleazy,
simply that it strikes me as an unexpectedly
familiar gesture towards someone he has
never met before.
But familiarity is a crucial component
of The 1975. Over the past four years,
Healy and his band George Daniel (drums),
Adam Hann (guitar) and Ross MacDonald
(bass) have built a devoted following based
on the fierce sense of close proximity
between themselves and their largely
teen female following.
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From not-quite obscure beginnings to global pop star in the making
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Growing pains:
(clockwise from above)
with parents Denise
Welch and Tim Healy,
1993; early musical
stirrings; in full-on rock
star mode, 2013; early
adventures in hair, 2010;
with brother Louis, 2001.
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I WAS FANTASISING
ABOUT BEING
KEROUAC.
LIKE, AM I POET?
CAN I DO LOADS
OF DRUGS? THESE
ARE THE DRUGS
ALL MY HEROES
DID. I BECAME
A CLICH.
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ht. I felt
d.
d is a word
o use a lot, in the
hion of a recent
I was walking
n Goldhawk
d, he recalls of
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I was smoking
oint, as I always
am, and I had
one of those
moments, where
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WHEN IM
PLAYING
MUSIC,
IM NOT
THINKING
ABOUT OTHER
PEOPLE. IM
TURNED ON.
of band, he says. Were on the radio a lot.
And when you dont know anything about
our band, and you dont know the depth,
and you have somebody like me, who you
just think is a pop star, talking in the way
I talk about this kind of thing, you could just
think, Hes pretentious.
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IM LOOKING
FOR GOD IN
EVERYTHING.
THATS WHAT
EVERYTHING
IS, ISNT IT?
RELIGION,
MUSIC, ART,
ITS ALL
A FORM
OF LOSING
YOURSELF.
ALEX LAKE
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Small faces: Oasiss dressing room IDs for the gigs, which saw the likes of David Beckham, Angus Deayton and the Brookside cast in attendance.
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Someone had
threatened to kidnap
Liam. The security
was really tight at
the Maine Road gig.
Paul Bonehead Arthurs
Kippax Street stand, of the South side of the city and the hills beyond,
with the band and 40,000 fans in the foreground: not, it has to be said,
the kind of scene one tended to associate with British groups on
independent labels. It was some token of the magic at work that
even Roll With It sounded good.
The support acts were Ocean Colour Scene and Manic Street
Preachers, who had just released A Design For Life. The guest list
had a pronounced Northern bias, and suggests in retrospect that the
supermodels and jetsetters who arrived en masse when Oasis played
Knebworth were yet to get interested. A lot of footballers were in
attendance, from Manchester United as much as their underachieving
rivals (witness the presence of David Beckham and Ryan Giggs). Most
of the younger cast of Channel 4s Brookside turned up. The snooker
genius Alex Hurricane Higgins was there, clad in a baseball cap. So
too were an assortment of other notables, from John Squire to Angus
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Have I Got News For You Deayton, though I didnt see him. All of us
made merry in some style: speaking for myself, after four years spent
watching guitar groups in less-than-luxurious surroundings, I am not
sure I had ever been to a gig before at which I had a ticket for a VIP
area, let alone one with drinks tokens and a buffet.
On the Saturday night, Liam said a few enlightening words to the
writer Keith Cameron. I havent had the chance to really appreciate
any of this its just been non-stop. We did Earls Court, then the next
day, we were in Germany playing to 300 people. I thought, What the
fucks all this about? Today was something else, just cos it was the
place I used to come every Saturday, watch big Joe Corrigan [imposing
City goalkeeper, at the club between 1967 and 1983] and the rest of it,
and now its us. Its like yes, thank you.
If that sounded like the stuff of triumph and wonderment, there
were also darker vibes swirling around, though few of us knew. Five
years later, Paul Bonehead Arthurs would tell me that the nefarious
grimness that had pushed Noel away from his home turf was still
there, festering in the middle distance. Someone had threatened to
kidnap Liam. And knowing the mentality of some of the gangsters in
Manchester I could imagine it, he said. The security was really,
really tight at that gig. People were controlling corridors, constantly.
According to a subsequent report in the Daily Mirror, on the first
night, Liam dramatically dedicated Supersonic to the kidnappers
who say theyre going to hold me for ransom. Unfortunately, the
footage proves he did nothing of the kind.
One hesitates to make light of such stories but in any case, you
need only watch the footage of Maine Road and imagine the unlikely
spectacle of the younger Gallagher being snatched to come to the
inevitable conclusion: that if any hoods had somehow got him,
he would have blasted his way out of captivity within seconds.
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At the end,
there was kids
on the roof,
helicopters over
the gig. It was
like Vietnam.
Proper mega.
Noel Gallagher
Theyve
taken
over the
world.
Sylvia Patterson spent the show moving among the
crowd, interviewing those in the throng about their
high times at Maine Road. But it was her interviews
with the brothers Gallagher in later years that cast
enlightening perspective upon the event.
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The next
day, I moved
down to
London. And
I havent
been back
since.
Liam Gallagher
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CHVRCHES
HIGH
ANXIETY
Lauren Mayberry found that the bigger
Chvrches got, the more stressed she became.
And they were getting very big. Niall Doherty
meets the band on tour in Tokyo to see how she
chose to fight rather than flight.
PHOTOGRAPHS: RACHAEL WRIGHT
CHVRCHES
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The biggest problem is that I went from a band that played half-empty
clubs nobody gave a shit about to this, she says. She doesnt read
reviews any more. In the downtime between the bands two
LPs, Mayberry read books about body language and
how it can influence your mind into thinking that
youre confident. Now before every show,
I feel like Im not constantly worrying about
every single thing Im doing, she says.
I can look at the front row and not
completely panic, which is nice.
Mayberry is entertaining company.
She is smart and funny, and speaks
at an alarmingly fast pace, often
accompanying sentences with
illuminating hand gestures that look
like shes filing away the conversation
as its happening. Combined with her
elfin-like features, shes like the sort of
sardonic cartoon character that couldve
MAYBERRY
been on MTV in the late 90s. She thinks that
everyone is motivated by the fact they are
silently terrified theyre going to die and that
a lot of people feel very isolated and alone a lot of
the time cos ultimately life is quite a lonely experience.
She delivers heavy statements with either a knowing giggle, or by
talking even faster. We head back to the hotel where a car is waiting to
take Mayberry and her bandmates to Akasaka Blitz, tonights venue.
A LOT OF
PEOPLE FEEL
VERY ISOLATED
AND ALONE A LOT
OF THE TIME, COS
ULTIMATELY LIFE
IS QUITE A LONELY
EXPERIENCE.
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NOW IM
NOT WORRYING
ABOUT EVERY
SINGLE THING. I CAN
LOOK AT THE
FRONT ROW
AND NOT PANIC.
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goodie bags, a cat eye-patch and a cat puppet.
who set about trying to trick the singer into
Doherty goes comedy camp when he realises
being in a band with them. I thought she
that last night he accidentally told a fan about
had the most exciting voice Id heard, he
a festival theyre playing that hasnt been
says, tucking into some sushi.
announced yet (oh, keep that to yourself!)
Each member of Chvrches thought their
moment in music had passed. Heres your
hen Doherty started
and Mayberry is the star host, putting nervous
guide to their failed band CV.
playing guitar as a
fans at ease. She appears to be in her element.
teenager, his goal
An hour later, shes even more of a
was to headline the
commanding presence onstage. Its hard to
LAUREN MAYBERRY
Barrowland in Glasgow.
connect her bouncing across the stage to the
Age: 28
Hes since done that a
anxiety-ridden performer she was describing
Previous bands:
Boyfriend/Girlfriend,
number of times it was absolutely insane,
earlier. During the propulsive We Sink, she
Blue Sky Archives
and really emotional and in April his band
pumps her fists in the air and leads the crowd
What went wrong? Blue Sky Archives
will play the citys
into a singalong. Apart from the moment when
were still going when Chvrches
13,000-capacity SSE
it gets so dark onstage that Cook cant actually
formed. Cook was producing
Hydro. Its just fucking
see any of his instruments, Chvrches live show
their EP when he and Doherty
mad, innit? Its never
is a slick operation. They may not look like a
had the idea to steal their
singer. At the time, Mayberry
gonna be normal, he
regular band, with their wonky age ranges and
was working as a film and TV
says. A few drinks later,
disparate dress senses, but they do resemble
production assistant. By that
he heads up to the
a gang. Dohertys dancing is also quite
point, I was like, Its probably
balcony overlooking
something. His main move could be called
not on the cards for me, she
the restaurant to take
Fighting With Ghosts and another, Shaking
says. Sometimes I can be
a photo. Returning to
Off The Wasp.
a bit of a pessimist.
the table, he decides
Afterwards, Mayberry and Cook head back
IAIN COOK
ping-pong will have to wait. The bands
to the hotel for an early night. Doherty, 33,
Age: 41
schedule is non-stop and hes not sure he
comes across as the sort of person who is
Previous bands:
can fit in another hangover in the morning.
saving up all his early nights for when hes an
Aereogramme, The
Its time for bed.
old man. Hes shaken off his sake hangover
Unwinding Hours
The next evening, Doherty has arranged
from the night before and hes ready to go
What went wrong? After releasing
four albums, Cooks post-rock outfit
a visit for the band and crew to Joypolis, a
again. Do you like ping-pong? he enquires.
Aereogramme split. He
giant indoor theme park with a roller-coaster
He likes ping-pong, and hes
followed it with a project with
and enough arcade games to make you feel
found a club with lots of pingtheir singer Craig B, but he
like youre in Tron. Doherty has been looking
pong tables that he wants to
assumed his time in bands was
forward to this for a while. His bandmates
go to later. First, though, he
done. With Aereogramme,
dont look too sure what theyre doing here,
leads everyone to dinner at
the sense of hope and selfbelief was slowly eroded and
but Doherty has given them the hard sell
Gonpachi, the restaurant
eventually crushed by peoples
and theyre intrigued to see what the fuss is
that inspired the scene in
ndifference, he says. I didnt
about. Its only open for two and a half more
Kill Bill where Uma Thurman
want to have to do that again.
hours! he says as they enter the building.
wipes out half of Japan.
ts quite crippling at times.
Mayberry decides it isnt for her and we
Doherty has a big day of
head to a nearby restaurant. She has been
promo ahead of him tomorrow, so hes laying
MARTIN DOHERTY
Age: 33
going through the fan mail from last nights
off sake and sticking to beer, although he
Previous bands: Julia
show at 100 letters, its their biggest bounty
revises this later when he decides that a few
Thirteen, Aereogramme,
yet. She responds to each individually but
mojitos cant do too much harm. Hes a
The Twilight Sad
shes not sure how much longer she can
friendly presence. He has a bit of Glaswegian
What went wrong? Dohertys school band,
keep that up. She recently moved to New
spikiness about him too. He grew up in Faifley,
Julia Thirteen, became a staple on Glasgows
York and is trying to persuade her bandmates
a super working-class area, rough as hell, big
rock scene but when they split he thought itd
be easier to tag along with his friends groups.
that the mail should be sent to Glasgow
drugs problem, wanting to be a footballer. He
I saw being in other peoples bands as a
rather than to her in the US.
played at school and amateur level as a centre
route to touring and being in music without
She is happier than she was two years ago,
forward, and moved into music when he
taking the crap chute of investing everything
and shes learned to separate
realised he wasnt going to make it. He had
you have in a band.
band-me and real-life-me, cos
been in a few bands by the time he met
But then I got sick of
then when you take a kicking it
Cook, who was his lecturer on a music and
playing other peoples
songs. I was gonna
doesnt feel so personal.
computers course at the University Of
quit music and
Things like creating FANCLVB
Glasgow (its not like he was a hundred years
go back to uni.
have made her feel better, as
old or whatever, but hed graduated and was a
well as her ongoing
superstar of the course so they asked him
involvement in TYCI (it stands
back, he says). The two became friends and
for Tuck Your Cunt In), an arts
began swapping demos back and forth. He thinks Cook is a genius,
and music collective based in
although is frustrated by his bandmates refusal to let him wear
Glasgow promoting all things femme. Mayberry launched it in 2012
shorts onstage. Even if its like 40 degrees and youre in Australia,
when she realised there were a lot of female musicians in Glasgow
Iains like, No shorts! he says.
without a network to meet like-minded people. Thats been a really
He was ready to ditch music altogether to do something where he
positive thing for me, she says. Shes ready to call it a night. There is
could get paid well before a pep talk from Campbell McNeil prompted
fan mail to answer and cat drawings to reply to. Lauren Mayberry is
him to go into the studio with Cook. After hearing what Mayberrys
learning to enjoy it all. She cleared her head, she figured it out.
voice sounded like over their electronic compositions, it was Doherty
DONT STOP
BELIEVING
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ANARCHY
SEEMS TO BE
AN ACT OF
JEALOUSY. ID
PUT IT WITH
THE SEVEN
DEADLY SINS.
JOHN
LYDON
Donald Trump:
a humourless,
morose angry f**k,
according to Mr Lydon.
DONT BE NOSEY
Social media is a very, very silly thing. I think its evil the way
people anonymously poke their noses into other peoples
private lives. Who is shagging who is no business of mine! I suppose
its some kind of subterfuge for people who dont have sex lives of
their own so they deal with it vicariously through the shenanigans of
others. And thats very dismal indeed. Its like youre depriving
yourself of your own existence and theres a system called social
media thats helping you do that. How insane! But there we go.
Ive got this thing that I dont trust people who dont have
a sense of humour. And I look at the Republicans here in
the States at the moment and its one bunch of morose, angry fucks.
I watched Donald Trump make a speech the other night and the
first eight minutes was him just praising himself! At no point did he
mention anything about his policies or what the future holds for the
rest of us. A politician to me is someone who volunteers to do good for
others. It should not be a career. I bloody well hope he doesnt get in!
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PARQUET COURTS
PARQUET COURTS
There were moments where I thought we were being really
funny in interviews, then people would come back with: difficult,
assholes, contrarians, notes Andrew Savage. I thought we were
all having a good time!
There were also rumours that you insisted on taking acid
before every gig
Oh yeah, weve got to do that now, guys. Quick, were late, he
adds, dryly.
We made the mistake of dispelling that rumour, chips in
Austin Brown. Feel free to start it up again. Were not worried
about getting arrested.
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REX
Getting cosy in
their Williamsburg
rehearsal space.
PCS
WORLD
THESE ARE A FEW
OF PARQUET COURTS
FAVOURITE THINGS.
MANCHESTER
UNITED
Human Performances
cover art contains a
hidden reference to
the former giants of
English football, while a book
right? Or you tell someone that youre from Texas and they look at you
like youre from Mars: Oh, what was that like? Did you have a horse?
If Browns salvation came via the internet, Savages took the more
old-school format of mail order fanzines. Sending off for cult punk
magazine Maximum Rocknroll as a teenager, it opened up a universe
of underground punk scenes and a staunchly do-it-yourself ethos that
has informed pretty much everything Parquet Courts does.
A one-man cottage industry, Savage met Yeaton while booking
bands from his living room in Texas (hed previously met Brown at the
University of North Texas Knights Of The Round Turntable vinyl
appreciation club). He runs his own record label, Dull Tools, for which
he posts releases to fans and put out the bands cassette-only debut,
American Specialities, in 2011. Enjoying a sideline as a painter, he
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PARQUET COURTS
also designs the artwork and fliers for both Parquet
Courts and the acts on Dull Tools. You get the impression
he would be personally stacking their new album in record
shops given the chance.
Coming home from school and getting my first issue of
Maximum Rocknroll in the mail was a moment that changed
my life, recalls Savage. The influence of it rivals anything. Its
why on all our records we have a physical mailing address that
you can send in to. I dont like social media. Twitter, Facebook,
that doesnt appeal to me, but writing in the mail does because
when I was a kid I got obsessed with this idea that I could send a
five dollar bill to somebody and two weeks to two months later
Id get a seven-inch back. It became my window to the world.
top) American
Specialities (2011);
Light Up Gold
(2012); Tally All
The Things That
You Broke (2013);
Sunbathing Animal
(2014); Content
Nausea (2014);
Monastic Living
(2015); Human
Performance (2016);
(right) Guys? The
gates, like, open...
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THERE IS THE
UNDERGROUND
SCENE THEN
THERES US AND
THEN IT JUMPS UP
TO BANDS LIKE FOO
FIGHTERS. I CANT
IMAGINE A BAND AS
STRANGE AS US
EXISTING IN THAT
STRATOSPHERE.
ANDREW SAVAGE
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immediate, success proved elusive.
The Screen Gemz morphed into Freur,
a synth-pop outfit whose name was written
as a hieroglyphic squiggle, but after scoring
a minor hit in New Zealand with a song
called Doot-Doot, they too folded in 1986.
Undeterred, a year later Underworld Mk 1
rose from Freurs ashes with hopes of
crossing over as an INXS-type pop-rock act.
Two albums for celebrated US label Sire
Records vanished without trace before a
support slot on Eurythmics 1989 North
American tour compounded their misery.
Two days in, it was like, This is
hideous! grimaces Smith. The dream was
shattered. Big stages, audiences miles away
who just want Annie [Lennox] to come on
By the end of the tour it was very grim.
Dispirited, Smith returned to England
while Hyde stayed on in America, eventually
landing a gig playing guitar in Debbie Harrys
band. Musically, it wasnt the challenge he
wanted, but taking inspiration from Lou
Reed and the playwright Sam Shepards
Motel Chronicles he began carrying a pen and
notebook, jotting down short, fragmentary
observations on the streets in New York.
THE BEST OF
UNDE ORL
M AY 2 0 1 6
Freur
Doot-Doot
(12-inch mix) (1983)
Underworld prehistory,
though Karl Hyde and
Rick Smiths quirky
synth-pop near-hit
has since been
reclaimed as a lost
Balearic curio.
Lemon Interupt
Dirty (1992)
Underworld
Rez (1993)
Underworld
Mmm
Skyscraper I Love
You (1994)
From dubnobass, with
shades of Pink Floyd,
an epic prog house trip
round Elvis, porn dogs
and other fragments of
Karl Hydes imagination.
Underworld
Tongue (1994)
Proof Underworld
could do more than
just pummelling
house beats, layering
shimmering echoes
of Brian Eno and
English folk songs
over ambient house.
Underworld
Born Slippy.
NUXX (1996)
Trainspotting made
it a hit, but this was
already one of 90s
dance musics most
compelling statements:
urgent, edgy and,
ultimately, uplifting.
Underworld
Pearls Girl (1996)
Underworld
Jumbo (1999)
Underworld
Crocodile (2007)
10
Underworld
If Rah (2016)
Refreshed after a
six-year absence,
the low-slung, elastic
groove and Born
Slippy-like Luna
luna luna luna refrain
are unmistakably
Underworld.
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herself: Phil Spector and The Ronettes
rolled into one. All my friends had
their own projects, so they didnt
want to work with me, she says. I tried
producing for other artists but Im so
bad at compromising and most of the
people that I like making music with are
also very bad at compromising.
Under deadline pressure, Boucher
made Visions, her first album for 4AD, in
a manic three-week blur, reconciling her
goth roots and lo-fi milieu with her new
Top 40 infatuation. Everyone around
me was like, Rihanna? I dont even
know any Rihanna songs. So I was on
this total roll where I felt super-separate
from everyone else.
Visions made Grimes popular on a
scale she never expected. There was a
lot of catching up that was very public,
she says. In the middle of 2013, burnt
out by touring and media attention, she
sacked her manager, purged her Tumblr and
experimented with writing for other people,
making the EDM-influenced Go for Rihanna
with her friend Mike Blood Diamonds
Tucker. After it was rejected, she released
her own version on SoundCloud, leading to
claims she was selling out. It was worth it,
though. I learned probably more during that
time than Ive ever learned, she says.
She retreated to rural Canada with her
CLAIRES ACCESSORIES
AI WEIWEI
CORBIS, GETTY
I wanted to
start afresh:
Grimes looks
to the future,
Berlin, 2016.
BURIAL
Burial is a really
big influence
MARGARET ATWOOD
I just finished The
Handmaids Tale. I thought it
was a really scary book but
gorgeously written. A lot of
the sentences in it would be
good lyrics. Its extremely
poetic but matter-of-fact,
which is a hard balance.
ANDR 3000
When I first heard OutKasts
[Andr 3000, below] Bombs
Over Baghdad, I was aghast,
like, Holy fuck, Ive never
heard anything like
this! And I really
respect artists
who disappear.
If youre not
making your best
work, its good
to go away and
come back.
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Just What Is
It That You
Want To
Do?
GRANT FLEMING
PRIMAL
SCREAM
wanted to be
free. And they
wanted to get loaded.
Simon Goddard meets
Bobby Gillespie and
Andrew Innes to hear amazing,
unexpurgated tales of rocknroll survival
in extremely trying circumstances.
Part 1:
IN THE
BEGINNING:
1982-1989
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82
WE DIDNT
KNOW HOW TO
WRITE SONGS.
I CALLED IT
PRIMAL SCREAM
BECAUSE THAT
WAS LITERALLY
WHAT WE DID.
Bobby Gillespie
Movin on up: (clockwise, from below) Gillespie
drums for The Jesus And Mary Chain, London,
1984; in Portugal to film the video for the Mary
Chains Some Candy Talking, 1986; an early Primal
Scream flyer from 1983; playing his first ever gig
as Primal Scream, with Jim Beattie, London, 1983.
I realised that all their songs were in the wrong key for Bobs vocals.
When I told them they said, Whats a key? Their drummer couldnt
keep time. It was fundamental, basic stuff. Eventually finished
without Street, 1987s atypical debut Sonic Flower Groove pitched
Primal Scream as a gently psychedelic beat group. Except, as
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THAT FIRST
ALBUM WAS
WORSE THAN
ANY TRIP TO
THE DENTIST,
AND IT LASTED
THREE WEEKS.
Andrew Innes
Gillespie understates, it wasnt very sexy; a shortfall even its sleeve
featuring his leather chaps from a gay sex shop couldnt fix.
The albums failure prompted Beatties exit, as it did the Screams
next shift from capricious jangly indie to rambunctious garage punk
coinciding with Gillespie and Youngs move south to Brighton. There,
alienated by the local indie nights, they started their own at the
seafront Escape Club, calling it Slut. We had this fucking cool poster
of Brian Jones in his Nazi uniform, says Gillespie. Only Brighton was
a fairly radical leftist town back then, so feminists would go around
ripping them down because it said SLUT in massive letters.
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Part 2:
REVOLUTIONARY
SCREAMADELICA:
1989-1992
Even before recording
1989s universally
ignored Primal Scream
album, the rhythm of
their destiny was already
bothering Gillespies
eardrums, not that
hed listen. Wed have parties in
Brighton, he reminisces. Wed be
taking speed or magic mushrooms
with super lager, getting wasted,
playing New York Dolls on the stereo.
Alan and [press officer] Jeff Barrett
would be there on Ecstasy, but we
never knew what that was, and theyd
be freaking out listening to the Dolls,
having a really bad trip. Then theyd
put on this weird electronic music
with black girls singing and wed go,
What the fuck is this SHIT? Turn it
OFF! It got really aggressive. And
this went on all night.
Gillespie hadnt yet tried Ecstasy.
In 1988, one 25 tab was the best part
of a weeks dole. Ecstasy was a rich
mans drug, he nods. McGee, on the
other hand, was enjoying the advance
from a major deal with Creations The
House Of Love and the freedom of
newly divorced life in Manchester,
taking to The Haiendas E-popping
acid house party like a game of
Hungry Hippos. Alan was constantly
proselytising about acid house and Ecstasy, says Gillespie. Hed be,
Youve GOT to listen to this music. He wouldnt stop.
In a concerted effort at pharmaceutical baptism, on Sunday,
4 December, 1988, McGee took Gillespie and his girlfriend to see
Happy Mondays play Brightons Zap Club. After buying supplies from
Shaun Ryder backstage, McGee gave Gillespie his first E. I took it, and
it never worked, he laughs. I just remember sitting with Alan in a
cold flat thinking, So, whens it gonna start? The drugs didnt work.
But then Alan started throwing these parties at the Creation offices in
Hackney where hed go, Open your mouth, then throw some Ecstasy
down, blaring Ten City on the stereo. Then we started going to the
clubs and suddenly I got it. What I loved was that it was underground,
outlaw, illicit, dangerous, sexy, and the mainstream never knew about
it. And the music was futuristic and new and had nothing to do with
rock. It was fucking everything I was waiting for. The first time since
punk there was youth culture in Britain that really was revolutionary.
he chances of
Gillespie ever
bridging the chasm
between the new
repetitive tempos of
his nightlife and the
Screams smoking-Marshallstack ruckus seemed slim.
But unbeknownst to him,
working the decks of one of
his favourite haunts, Shoom,
the Kensington club whose
original smiley face flyer
became the emblem of acid
house, was that solitary fan
of their second album.
To look at Andrew
Weatherall in 1989, maybe
that wasnt surprising.
Weatherall had long hair
and tattoos, describes Innes.
And he loved Thin Lizzy.
Thats how we bonded. He
was the only DJ who remotely
liked us, and he totally
understood where we were
coming from. Initially
coerced by Barrett to write a
favourable Audrey
Witherspoon review of a gig
in Exeter, Weatheralls
kindred rocknroll spirit
solicited their offer to apply
his DJ skills to a remix B-side
of their next single. It helped
that it was Weatheralls
favourite on the album, the
cheaters soul plea Im Losing
More Than Ill Ever Have.
The funny thing is
herall hadnt done a
emix by himself
before, says Innes.
Coming together:
He loved the song so
(above) the band in
1990, with Andrew
much that his first
Weatherall (bottom
attempt was too
right), the man
espectful. Im always
who turned Im
uoted
as telling him,
Losing More Than
st fucking destroy it.
Ill Ever Have
at, really, was the gist.
(right) into Loaded.
d then he realised.
The scene of destruction was a lean-to shed against a Greek caf
a short walk from Blackhorse Road station in Walthamstow. Bark
Studios, grins Innes. It used to have an advert in the back of the
papers, Londons Cheapest 24-track. Typical Creation Records.
Engineering the session for Weatherall and Innes was Brian
OShaughnessy, whose claim to pop fame was the voice of Scotty on
The Firms 1987 novelty Number 1 Star Trekkin. He used to say,
Im the little potato in the video, says Innes. Lovely guy. His one
treat was a wee half of cider at the end of the day that he kept in the
fridge. If you ever drank it, and sometimes, speeding or whatever,
we might, he went fucking mad.
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Scr
ol
A HISTORY OF
PRIMAL SCREAM
IN 20 SONGS
86
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VELOCITY
GIRL
(B-side of Crystal
Crescent, 1986)
The indie-schmindie
Scream Mk 1s finest
82 seconds. The Stone
Roses famously pinched
Gillespies vocal melody
for Made Of Stone.
SO SAD
ABOUT US
IM LOSING
MORE THAN ILL
EVER HAVE
here Gillespie
was at the start
of 1990 was
alien territory.
For the first
time in the
bands existence, Primal Scream were
loved by the general public. With the
possible exception of the late Errol
Brown who tried to sue for Loadeds
dead-ringer of a shared hook with Hot
Chocolates 1971 single You Couldve
Been A Lady. As the old saying goes,
where theres a hit theres a writ, notes Innes. Gillespie also
remembers an embarrassed encounter with Soul II Souls Jazzie B.
I was like this, he laughs, hands over his face, cos we nicked his beat
for Loaded. Well, Nellee Hoopers beat.
An increased budget for their next single meant swapping the
shed in Walthamstow for the spacious Jam Studios, a short walk
from Finsbury Park station. A beautiful stucco-fronted villa,
recalls Innes of their home for the duration of sessions that became
1991s Screamadelica, adding that, contrary to myth, the Sgt Pepper
of the E generation wasnt the product of non-stop revelry. McGee
exaggerates that we only worked Tuesdays. If that had been the case
wed never have got it done. It was a party but after, not in, the studio.
Proceedings got off to a comically chaotic start nevertheless. The
first week at Jam, McGees Creation partner Richard Green rang up to
check their progress only to be told that, alas, the band couldnt come
to the phone because they were comatose on the studio floor. The
drummer turned up with some crazy drug, explains Gillespie. He
chopped it up and said, Snort this. I said, What is it? And he goes, It
doesnt matter, Keith Moon used to take it. And him, me, Throb and
4
LOADED
(Screamadelica, 1991)
A genuine revolution
when it first appeared
in February 1990.
The moment Primal
Scream turned from
black and white to
Technicolor.
HIGHER THAN
THE SUN
(Screamadelica, 1991)
The euphoria of
Ecstasy made into
music not as a
thumping floor-filler
but a transcendental
electronic hymn
of pure bliss.
I was Screamlagged:
(above) on tour in Japan,
October, 1991; (left)
filming the video for
Come Together, 1990.
OVIN ON UP
Screamadelica, 1991)
Arguably the best,
narguably the best
oved of the Screams
many Stones-isms.
The Hallelujah Chorus
meets Bo Diddley
n Exile On Main St.
ROCKS
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TRAINSPOTTING
(Vanishing Point, 1997)
Written for the 1996
film soundtrack, an
eerie eight-minute Lalo
Schifrin-goes-dub
groove announcing
the Scream reborn,
yet again.
KOWALSKI
10
Part 3:
B
A
TH
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199 -2013
HOW DOES
IT FEEL TO
BELONG?
on Vanishing Point.
88
...
11
MBV ARKESTRA
(XTRMNTR, 2000)
First issued as a chartineligible EP in 1998,
in experimental terms
Kevin Shieldss free-jazz
remix of Vanishing
Points If They Move,
Kill Em is a career high.
12
SWASTIKA EYES
(XTRMNTR, 2000)
Parasitic, youre
syphilitic! Gillespies
violent take on Moroder
disco where I Feel Love
becomes a scathing antiauthority I Feel Hate.
IT WENT FROM
ECSTASY TO COKE
TO HEROIN. SAME
#5'8'4;$#0&q
$QDD[)KNNGURKG
13
(XTRMNTR, 2000)
Their best dialogue
sample after Loaded,
Linda Manzs punk
preachings from Dennis
Hoppers Out Of The
Blue inspires a fierce
hip-hop war march.
14
RISE
15
SOME VELVET
MORNING
16
COUNTRY GIRL
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90
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HE GLORY
OF LOVE
19
2013
20
AUTUMN IN
PARADISE
(Chaosmosis, 2016)
The Primal Scream of
now: all pristine pop
melodies with an older,
wiser Gillespie weeping
for (rather than raging
at) the worlds ills.
17
SOMETIMES I
FEEL SO LONELY
tour again, this guys gonna kill himself, this guys gonna have a
breakdown, this guys gonna leave his wife. It just seemed to make
people go crazy. I hated myself. I hated the band. I hated the music we
were playing. I just remember thinking, Whats the fucking point?
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UNITED STAND
A staggering, vibrant achievement centred
around a critique of US government policy.
PJ HARVEY
PJ Harvey has
always operated
on a political frequency, its just those
politics have tended towards the
personal or sexual (most obviously in
the reworked feminism of her first two
albums, Dry and Rid Of Me). Over the
past five years though, as shes entered
her 40s, that focus has suddenly
widened and shes begun instead to
engage with more global concerns.
Following Let England Shakes
exploration of World War I and its
legacy, Harveys ninth studio album
again uses military conflict as its
starting point before then panning
out to tackle a whole swathe of
contemporary woes both political
and social. For Let England Shake,
Harvey travelled to Gallipoli. Here the
inspiration arrived via trips to Kosovo,
Afghanistan and Washington DC.
The Hope Six Demolition Project is
certainly Harveys most ambitious
album to date. On it, she attempts a
wide-ranging analysis of the effects of
Western decision-making on disparate
lives around the world, in the process
offering vivid individual snapshots
alongside a more general commentary
about the failures of, specifically, US
policy. Harvey is also trying to convey
these ideas in a palatable way. Thats to
say, by making a record you might
actually want to listen to.
That she triumphs at both is a
testament to just what a uniquely
substantial artist shes become.
Produced by her usual lieutenants,
John Parish and Flood, this is a record
as rich and diverse as any in her career,
a fact somewhat aided by the unusual
conditions in which it was made. The LP
was partly recorded during a residency
at a purpose-built studio in Somerset
House, a kind of art installation where
members of the public could watch the
sessions unfold via a one-way mirror.
Not that this led to any selfconsciousness from those involved.
Instead, the record is consistently
confident, varied and inventive. Its
interspersed with guests (Jamaican
poet Linton Kwesi Johnson crops up
on The Ministry Of Defence), static
snatches of field recordings made
by Harveys visual collaborator, war
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THIS IS HARVEYS
MOST AMBITIOUS
ALBUM TO DATE
A HEAVYWEIGHT
TOUR DE FORCE.
Three other
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Manic Street
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Truth Tell
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COLUMBIA, 1998
####
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Arular
XL, 2005
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M.I.A.s fizzing,
confrontational
car crash of
musical styles
was allied to a
fierce political
consciousness
rooted in her
Sri Lankan
ancestry.
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SOUNDS, 2013
Consistently confident,
varied and inventive:
PJ Harvey hits peak form.
Local rather
than global in
scope, Sleaford
Mods debut
saw frontman
Jason
Williamson
pour out a
torrent of bile
about life in
an austeritychoked Britain.
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FATIMA AL QADIRI
The originator of
a folk-influenced take on
electronica inspired
by both 70s singersongwriters and Scots
ambient duo Boards Of
Canada, UK producer Stephen Wilkinson
perfected his brambly tangle of looped
guitars and wonky breakbeats on 2009s
Ambivalence Avenue. Hes since tweaked
the formula with varying degrees of success,
so while his seventh studio album again
references the natural world it draws sonic
inspiration from classic-era Sly Stone,
chillwave electronics and the lounge-jazz
themes of long-gone US comedy shows
such as Taxi apparently a touchstone from
Wilkinsons childhood. It proves a subtle
but notably effective shift, Raxeira
channelling Metronomys hazy pop, Town
& Countrys left-field funk echoing West
Coast bass maverick Thundercat and
Gotye collaboration The Way You Talk
basking in a radiant pop glow. Altogether,
as lovely as its title suggests.
RUPERT HOWE
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Welsh singer-songwriter ups the odd stakes
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Downwards-spiral-arresting fifth.
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Guilty Pleasures fad of
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Rather than them losing
the plot afterwards, the plot left them
marooned in a world of diminishing returns
for their trademark sound. The sombre
2013 break-up album Boy Cried Wolf
showcased their weaknesses instead of the
wry warmth that remains their greatest
strength. Here, theyve rediscovered what
made them so likeable in the first place and
they sound all the better for it. Dan Gillespie
Sells is at his sharpest and most mischievous
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EGO TRIP
KANYE WEST
In January, Kanye
West issued one of
his more moderate
statements of recent months: So happy to
be finished with the best album of all time.
Alongside heralding Bill Cosbys innocence
and protecting his honour (and area)
against ex-girlfriend Amber Rose, it almost
seems sensible. Yet if best was always
going to be contentious, even the idea of an
album has seemed uncertain since The
Life Of Pablos unveiling at the Yeezy Season
3 fashion event. Far from using this odd
happening to draw a line under the creative
process, West spent the following days
adding tracks and altering them (Ima fix
Wolves), holding back the release, then
claiming the songs would only be available
on Tidal. If he were still fiddling with The Life
Of Pablo in 2020 and the original tracks had
been replaced by a low, distressed hum and
samples of Rihanna coughing, it wouldnt
be entirely surprising.
For some, this mayhem is the mark of a
true genius in a thrilling state of creative flux;
for others, its the crazed arrogance of a
reality-challenged megalomaniac. What
matters, though, is that West and his
collaborators still manage to make
something compelling from his highly
specific ber-celebrity circumstances,
transforming his superstar whining and
boasting into something that sounds so
much bigger. Even when he does something
that should just demand mockery like
comparing himself and wife Kim to Joseph
and Mary on the eerily paranoid Wolves, it
exerts the same strange fascination of
anything wildly distorted and out of scale, a
lurid Jeff Koons sculpture in a hall of mirrors.
There is much here that is dazzlingly
smart and agile the elastic sample of Sister
Nancys Bam Bam in Famous, for example, or
the bilious verbal purge of No More Parties
In LA, super-charged by Kendrick Lamar.
Despite the assertion that Ive been out
of my mind a long time, the Yeezus-scary
Feedback provides a rare moment where
he looks outside of his own spoilt head:
hands up, then the cops shot us. Despite
the embarrassment of riches, though,
theres also a lot of plain old embarrassment
those now-notorious lines about Taylor
Swift on Famous, for example. West might
have claimed that The Life Of Pablo is a
gospel record (a credible declaration on the
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Kanye West:
still manages to
make something
compelling from
his ber-celebrity
circumstances.
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An album informed by
both 15th-century choral
music and the impact of
modern technology
might sound intimidating
and it is. The heavy
conceptual fog and atmospheric
disturbance that comes with Tim Heckers
eighth LP is, however, also wholly absorbing,
his layering of electronic and classical music
weighted with meaning yet light as dust.
Recorded in Reykjavik with the Icelandic
Choir Ensemble, Love Streams doesnt quite
have the same stone-cold chill of 2011s
Ravedeath, 1972 or 2013s Virgins, but its
beauty remains deceptive. Voices flicker
through Violet Monumental I, human traces
that are vulnerable and easily manipulated,
while the sudden abrasions of Live Leak
Instrumental or Castrati Stack suggest
theres something truly harrowing waiting
on the horizon. That you are compelled to
stay listening to see what it might be is proof
of this records eerie power.
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MC, Florida features a bedroom cover of
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patois the production is both fluid and
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royalties and roles in a documentary film
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Fletchers hushed
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gently unconventional middle path.
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Hip-hop/reggae-friendly head-nodder
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to believe that there
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left in independent
music, the ninth solo
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Kingston-Upon-Thames finest turntablist
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WAIL OF A TIME
SIOUXSIE
AND THE BANSHEES
CLASSIC ALBUM SELECTION
VOLUME TWO
Siouxsie Sioux
was along for
the ride the day
the Sex Pistols
made their
infamous
sweary
appearance on
the Today show in 1976. After the
Pistols on-screen explosion of dirty
bastards and fucking rotters,
Siouxsie was discovered with guitarist
Steve Jones in a Thames TV office
taking calls from irate viewers.
Getting hold of all the ringing phones
and saying, This is Thames. Get off the
phone you stupid old
prat, recalled the
Pistols manager
Malcolm McLaren.
A similar flair for
confrontation ran
through Siouxsie And
The Banshees best
music. These six
albums from 1984 to
95 (now in a fancy
box but missing the
extras included in the
2014 reissues) prove
the Banshees would
never go quietly or
adhere to some strict
edict laid down in the
punk era. They kept on changing and
kept on challenging. There are many
pearls here, but, to reference
Siouxsies enduring lyrical fascination
with the power of water, sometimes
you have to dive deep to find them.
Hyaena arrived in 1984 premiered
the previous autumn by the Banshees
biggest UK hit, Dear Prudence, and
with departing guitarist John McGeoch
understudied by The Cures Robert
Smith. Its fractured but ambitious,
with the gorgeous orchestral overture
Dazzle and the watery Swimming
Horses trailering a bigger-sounding,
artier version of the Banshees.
On one level, the follow-up, 86s
Tinderbox, was a reaction to all that
artiness and a return to the barbed
simplicity of their early work. On
another, Cities In Dust, a hit single
inspired by the volcanic destruction
of Pompeii, sounds like the start of
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TOM SHEEHAN
A-HA
Crossing
over to
the other
side
Three more key LPs
by genre-busting
80s alt-titans.
The Killing
Moons parent
album found the
Liverpudlian neopsychedelicists
playing with
a 35-piece
orchestra, and
sounding like
a post-punk
Sgt Pepper.
PiL
Album
VIRGIN, 1986
John Lydon
stunned punk
diehards by
hiring jazzbo
producer Bill
Laswell and bighaired guitarist
Steve Vai for this
explosive study
in thumping
metal and
mutant funk.
Depeche Mode
Music For
The Masses
MUTE, 1987
On which the
chirpy Basildon
electro-poppers
first explored
their dark side.
Full of bleaksounding synths,
black moods and
the first whiff of
druggy S&M.
KARL BARTOS
COMMUNICATION
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LIGHTNING BOLT
The godfathers of thrash metal remaster their
highly inuential rst two albums.
METALLICA
KILL EM ALL ####
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LARRY LEVAN
GENIUS OF TIME
UMC, OUT 25 MARCH
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REISSUES
THE LONG RYDERS
FINAL WILD SONGS
CHERRY RED, OUT NOW
JOHN MILES
MILES HIGH
LOST
TREASURE
Jack Bevan,
Foals
Various
Artists
I Am The
Center: Private
Issue New
Age Music
In America
1950-1990
LIGHT IN THE
ATTIC, 2013
This
compilation has
got me into so
much music
thats new
to me. I really
love New Age
music, but my
girlfriend refers
to it as hipster
massage music.
Its nice, after
touring and
playing quite
aggressive
music, to go
back to the
calm stuff.
EDDI READER
this former busker is today a Twitterstorming Scots separatist. Yet she sings
with the trilling innocence of a robin. On this
set, which includes Fairground Attractions
1988 folk-pop Number 1 Perfect, Reader
radiates sweetness and light, finding
sunshine even in Amy Winehouses
Love Is A Losing Game. Technically flawless
and a shrewd judge of song quality, Reader
shrinks from expressing inconsolable
loss; not just unbowed but unscarred,
when she sings sad, its not the end of
the world. However, the world loves
above all a voice that can consolingly
embrace lifes dark nights of the soul. This
well-paced 30-track collection enjoyably
summarises a singer just one rung below
truly great. ####
MAT SNOW
Download: Snowflakes In The Sun |
Love Is A Losing Game | Whispers
REXY
DAVID BOWIE
MICHAEL
JACKSON
OFF THE WALL
THE
BLUETONES
EXPECTING TO FLY
AFRICAN
HEAD CHARGE
MY LIFE IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND
Jackos brilliant,
exciting, innovative
fth solo LP was the
one that made him a
star in his own right.
Packed with memorable songs, it was
a musical and artistic statement that
captured the mood of the times
and, best of all, you could dance to it.
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ENTERTAINMENT
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CULTURE LIST
TEENAGEKICKS:
MY LIFE AS AN
UNDERTONE
Michael Bradley
OMNIBUS, 16.99
Book
1971:NEVERADULL
MOMENT
David Hepworth
BANTAM PRESS, 20
Charting a momentous
year in music.
David Hepworths argument is
simple: 1971 was the most
febrile and creative time in the
entire history of popular
music. Its an enormous
assertion but he makes his point
with infectious enthusiasm,
offering a month by month
survey of how innumerable
classics such as Whats Going
On, Whos Next, Led Zeppelin IV
and Blue all emerged in a blur.
While his argument might
have been better served had
1971s influence been assessed
alongside other defining years,
it matters little. Hepworth
illuminates precisely because
he contextualises albums in the
highly specific moral climate
and cultural soup in which they
were released. Whether you
agree is beside the point. This is
a compelling love letter to a year
of timeless music. ####
GEORGE GARNER
Film
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Undertones bassists
teenage dreams so
hard to beat.
Mickey Bradley was, and is,
the bass player for The
Undertones, the pop-punk
band from Derry whose
Teenage Kicks was the
favourite record of John
Peel and thousands of
others of a certain age.
Bradleys memoir is both
breezy and detailed with
an anecdotal frankness
and self-deprecating
humour. It rattles through
the bands story, with
more emphasis on The
Undertones failures
than successes, recalls
moments in the bands
career, from singer Feargal
Sharkey blacking up for a
school concert to the band
nearly missing their own
final gig. Agreeable and
modest, Bradleys style is
well-suited to the story of
a band who made great
rocknroll records without
ever once appearing to be
rocknroll themselves.
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