Don Letts
If there is one word to describe Don Letts it would be pioneer. In 1976 a musical revolution was about to take place and Don Letts was at the forefront. English punk music was initially influenced by the garage rock coming out of the US; Patti Smith, the Stooges, MC5 and what have you. The English rendition, emerging from a climate of strikes, recession and lack of opportunities for the white working class youth in Britain, was the British equivalent of the blues, however it was Don Letts who tinged the Red, White and blue of the Union Jack with black gold and green of his parents homeland.
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Magik Markers + Mothlite @ Corsica Studios
Anton Allen reviews the Magik Markers and Mothlite at Cosica
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Brute Chorus
The Brute Chorus are uncategorisable. They've risen quickly from their Hawley Arms origins to become a solid band of ne'er do wells who sing of biblical figures, storms and floods and fairytales. They're disarmingly nice chaps despite the undercurrent of dark love and doom in their songs. BCR feeds them, beers them and tries to get under the skins and moustache of The brute Chorus
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Mudhoney
Big City Redneck loves Mudhoney. So much so that they drag themselves up eight flights of stairs with a shattered ankle to interview Mark Arm and Steve Turner at the top of the Kentish Town Forum. Settling back, wiping the sweat from our brow, catching our breath and accepting a beer from the band’s rider BCR breaths deep and begins the questioning…
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Cindy Wilson of the B-52s
Cindy Wilson is a founding member of the delightfully bizarre and hilariously Beehived B-52s. They’ve recently released a new album called Funplex and are currently touring it across the world. We phone her before their gig in London at the Roundhouse and find her sitting in her hotel room in a bathrobe with a cup of tea in hand. Where’s the rock ‘n’ roll, corset-wearing, bouffant mistress? Still very much there…
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Big Bad Love at 93 Feet East
Brute Chorus + Wet Paint + Popular Workshop + Sancho w/t Richard from Artrocker magazine on DJ duties...
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