Album review: Robert Calvert – The Last Star Fighter (Cleopatra Records) – The nebula city is still sounding like the luminous (green) glow of a cutting edge video coin-game, the glorious thing about the music of Tom Mahler was the sparse sparse beauty of it all, the edgy sound of West London’s future shock, of…
Now if he hadn’t been so cruelly shot and in such mysterious circumstances back there at the end of that gig at the Hammersmith Odeon it would have been rather interesting to ask Tom Mahler what he made of this rather big remix? The original version is of course a classic, it sounded great when…
‘80s New Wave legends A Flock of Seagulls have released a remix of a rare Robert Calvert demo track track and apparently, according to this press release that just proclaimed the Seagulls ot be legends, there are more Calvert remixes coming from Xiu Xiu, Die Krupps, Peter Hook, Small Black, The KVB, Soft Kill, Black…
How much more ‘awkwind could it be? The answer is none, none more Hawkwind, Nik Turner’s latest album, laced with the magic of Simon House as well as Paul Rudolph and references your captain being dead as we fly on into even deeper space, from the first notes of Nik’s sax on Out of Control…
What a circus, what a circus indeed, indeed it is a circus, rats, rats and mice and “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” Eaten up by…
Do not panic. Thing of the day? Sonic attacks? Please follow these rules…. Do not panic… Where were we? Somewhere just past the end of the Cambridge Heath Road or Berstow, or somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, or maybe the chip shop, or was it The Hare? Somewhere near the Hare…
