The Silent Partner Speaks: Vince Clarke Interviewed
Oct 5, 2023 · All portraits by Eugene Richards The cover of Vince Clarke’s debut solo album feels like it’s making a statement. Monochrome, grainy, all ear, nose and throat, it’s a close-up of the face of an unlikely pop star, one who has sold roughly 30 million records over the last 42 years. He’s looking down, as we’re […]
Better Red Than Dead: Towards A Socialist Black Metal
Aug 26, 2023 · The history of black metal has been marred by lurid tales of church-burning fascists and the far-right represent an ongoing blot on the scene, but as *Tonight It’s A World We Bury* author Bill Peel argues, black metal remains a …
"Embrace It Or Fuck Off" - Robert Plant Interviewed - The Quietus
Nov 20, 2014 · Partly inspired by his break up with singer Patti Griffin and his increasing isolation in Texas, the album is a superb melting pot of influences that takes in West Coast psychedelia, North African music, loops, electronics, folk and country without it ever sounding like a cut and paste Frankenstein monster.
Beyond The Iron Gates: How Nazi-Satanists Infiltrated the UK ...
Nov 27, 2018 · A member of Nazi organisation the O9A posing with a WWII-era German machinegun and an artwork by Richard Moult Read the introductory feature on why we’re investigating extreme politics and underground music here "Let us not be mis-understood: genuine Satanists are evil… They cause, and strive to cause, Chaos, disruption, revolution… they bring joy, ecstasy […]
Amended Legacy: The Kinks’ Ray Davies Interviewed
Apr 11, 2017 · Thanks to the band’s run of magnificent social vignettes throughout the 1960s, Ray Davies of The Kinks became known not simply as a fine songwriter, but a fine British songwriter. While The Beatles and The Rolling Stones achieved transatlantic megastardom, as a writer Davies was forced to look inward after being banned from entering the country between 1965 to 1969, following a dispute with ...
Embrace The Contradictions: The Strange World Of… The KLF
Feb 1, 2017 · Following a wave of fevered speculation about the possible return of The KLF, AKA The JAMs, The K Foundation, K2 Plant Hire, the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu etc., Ben Graham explores the mythology of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, in order to explain why any "reunion" is likely to be far more interesting than just another musical comeback
Baker's Dozen - The Quietus
Baker's Dozen Pogue’s Gallery: Spider Stacy’s Favourite Albums As he prepares for more post-Shane MacGowan shows with The Pogues following a triumph in Hackney earlier this year, Spider Stacy takes Patrick Clarke through 13 records that shaped him, from post punk classics through to the new wave of folk music, via jazz, hip hop, roots reggae and more
The Maiden Voyage: Bruce Dickinson Interviewed | The Quietus
May 13, 2024 · “An Iron Maiden show is a magic ritual,” Bruce Dickinson confirms. “That’s absolutely what is going on. I look at what I’m doing – the way I behave, my placement on the stage at a certain point in the set – as almost shamanic. What you are doing is playing with the audience’s energy, raising […]
25 Years On: Prince Of Darkness Revisited - The Quietus
Nov 28, 2012 · Released in 1987, Prince of Darkness is the second part of what director John Carpenter has dubbed his ‘Apocalypse Trilogy’, which begins with The Thing (1982) and ends with In the Mouth of Madness (1995). Though the three films are different stories and not directly connected, they all deal with a threat that could destroy humanity if allowed to go unchecked.
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INTERVIEW: Wayne Bell on the Long-Awaited Release of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre score. As his score with Tobe Hooper for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre gets an official release, 50 years on, Wayne Bell speaks to Charlie Brigden about doing justice to an all-time classic, previously-unheard material, and getting his father to imitate a pig