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Book Review: ‘I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp’ by Richard Hell
Where do ideas come from? How does an individual up with an idea that starts a whole movement? Does he or she think it up in a momentary flash of brilliance which causes them to have some sort of...
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Book Review: ‘Anger Is An Energy’ by John Lydon – Johnny Rotten Lives
Normally I don’t read autobiographies. Especially ones written by rock and roll personalities. The ones I’ve read are usually too self-serving by half to be informative; all you find out are the levels...
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Interview: John Lydon – Truth and Integrity in Life and Music
John Lydon, lead singer of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Limited (PiL), is one of the seminal figures in pop music history. In the 1970s, he and the Pistols stood the moribund music industry of...
View ArticleMusic CD/DVD Review: X-Ray Spex – Live At The Roundhouse London 2008
Poly Styrene’s vocals are still as brilliant as ever. Thirty years on, she sounds as vital as she did in 1977. I miss Lora Logic on the sax, nevertheless Live At The Roundhouse – London 2008 is every...
View ArticleMusic DVD/CD Review: Sid! By Those Who Really Knew Him
“…But that’s what the Pistols were all about. One of them had to be a casualty to make the myth work, and Sid was only too willing to do it.” — Steve Severin (Siouxsie And The Banshees) So many rock...
View ArticleMusic Review: Buzzcocks – Another Music In A Different Kitchen (Special Edition)
It is unfortunate that the Buzzcocks never achieved the level of respect they deserved in the US. Back in the heady days of 1977, they were billed just behind The Sex Pistols and The Clash in the UK....
View ArticleMusic Review: Buzzcocks – Love Bites (Special Edition)
1978 was an enormously productive year for the Buzzcocks. It not only saw the release of their exemplary debut album, Another Music In A Different Kitchen, but also their second, Love Bites. In...
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Movie Review: Who Killed Nancy?
Be careful playing with that — someone’s going to get hurt. The last time legendary DJ and director Don Letts, one of the more authoritative voices in Alan G. Parker’s Who Killed Nancy?, saw Sid...
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Music Review: Avengers – Avengers
The Avengers were one of the early Bay Area punk bands who never quite got the recognition they deserved. Of course, any “punk fan” today is obliged to kneel at the altar of this legendary four-piece,...
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Music Review: PiL –‘The Public Image is Rotten’– Forty Years of Public Image Ltd
In celebration of their 40th anniversary Public Image Ltd (PiL) are releasing the box set retrospective of their career, The Public Image is Rotten (Songs From The Heart). Headed by former Sex Pistol...
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