The Fall
Imperial Wax Solvent
Castle/Universal
By John Doran and Luke Turner
‘Alton Towers’
John says: Damn that John Peel and his way with words! Was there ever a more prescient, concise and intelligent way of describing The Fall than “Always the same, always different”? Anyway, this time out the difference is one of pure base-line quality, heaviness and […]

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by Luke Turner
Our spies at this year’s South By South West tell us that one of the biggest queues at the bash was for She & Him, whose bittersweet piano-driven Californian pop is the result of a collaboration between Almost Famous and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford star Zooey Deschanel […]

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By John Doran

The author and a Stranger in Acton Bowling Lanes
When a convention celebrating the Coen Brothers’ film The Big Lebowski arrives in London it seems that a lack of even the most basic of grooming skills and a tendency to sit round all day wearing a dressing gown are the main qualifications I posses […]

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Twenty years after his first unsuccessful attempt to infiltrate Eastern Europe, Brother John Robb recalls the heady days of the fall of the Berlin Wall
“1989 OK! Wall across the DDR!”
As Iggy never sang.
But he should have. Because there I was in 1989 wandering around in the middle of history. The (Communist) party was […]

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