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[Film review] LFF2024: Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story
A film about the life of Pauline Black seems long overdue. The spotlight of the 2-Tone scene is often pointed at her male contemporaries like The Specials or The Beat, so now it’s time for Black to tell the story in her own words. Part biography, and part road documentary of her musical second act,…
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[Film review] LFF2024: Pavements
In typically acerbic form, Stephen Malkmus said: “Has there ever been a good movie made about a rock band?” – that question pops up early in Alex Ross Perry’s latest film Pavements. As a film, it’s harder to pin down than the most obscure of Pavement ‘B’ sides. On paper, everything about it shouldn’t work.…
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Doc ‘n’ Roll Festival returns to London November 2nd-13th
The UK Music documentary film festival returns to London for a 3rd year at various venues across the city, including the BFI Southbank, Hackney Picturehouse, Picturehouse Central, the ICA, Moth Club, The Social and Rich Mix.This year’s line includes documentaries about Parliament/Funkadelic, The Orb, The Melvins, Frank Zappa, Sid and Nancy, Bonnie Prince Billy, Bad…
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[Video] Lily & Madeleine: Hotel Pool
Another track from Lily & Madeleine‘s third album Keep It Together, out on February 26th on New West, which just oozes poise that feels way beyond their young ages (18 and 21). The video is directed by Black Balloon.
[Album Review] James: La Petite Mort
La Petite Mort is James 14th album, and the 4th since reforming in 2007 following Tim Booth’s temporary departure. It’s part of a second era for James, distinguished by a change from songs that emerged through lengthy jam sessions to a more standard song-writing method. And so these later albums have a different feel to…
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[Live Review] Connan Mockasin, Shepherd’s Bush Empire 28th January 2014
Warhol-haired, Kiwi musician and singer Connan Mockasin may be a slight figure, but he’s quite a formidable presence. Opening song It’s Your Body envelopes the place with a sound that is a heady cocktail of Pink Floyd and Prince (if the latter were singing inside a fishtank), replete with woozy, whirly guitar effects. This segues…
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[Live Review] Pokey LaFarge and Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers, the Fleece, Bristol, 10th November
It’s a full house tonight at the Fleece, with a few people adopting a thirties/ forties retro look to match that of Pokey LaFarge (and few more, almost but not quite getting it right, with a fifties greaser look). Opener Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, touring as an acoustic trio in support of their self-titled…
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[Video] Bonnie “Prince” Billy – I See A Darkness
Bonnie “Prince” Billy seems to be quite a fan of reinventing his own canon, and this new video for a new version of I See A Darkness, shot in Glasgow and available on forthcoming EP Now Here’s My Plan, made me chuckle.
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The Kinks in Mono Boxset
Following on from the remastered double CDs of classic Kinks albums that have been released recently, Sanctuary Records have put out the first seven albums (Kinks, Kinda Kinks, The Kink Kontroversy, Face to Face, Something Else, The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, and Arthur, or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)…
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