Echo & The Bunnymen

Echo & The Bunnymen: Porcupine (Korova)

Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, January 1983

PERHAPS IT WAS inevitable, even decreed in some heaven up "there". Maybe it’s just the third time unlucky. But if Porcupine isn’t good it isn’t ...

Joy Division, Teardrop Explodes, OMD, Echo & The Bunnymen et al: Leigh Rock Festival, Lancashire

Live Review by Mick Middles, Sounds, September 1979

A movement with no name... and a festival with no people (But a 'staggering event' all the same, says our man Middles) ...

Joy Division/Echo & The Bunnymen/OMD/Teardrop Explodes/The Distractions/ACR: Leigh Valley Festival, Lancashire

Live Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, September 1979

Angst in an East Lancs wasteland ...

Echo & Bunnymen, U2, Delta 5: The Lyceum, London

Live Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, September 1980

ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN dwell in the magical land between life and art that is the territory of great rock'n'roll. Making music alone isn't enough ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Welcome To The Bunnyhouse

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, November 1980

WHEN ECHO And The Bunnymen end their British tour with a date at Liverpool University, the Mad Hatter photographer (Joe Stevens) and I travel up ...

Echo and the Bunnymen/Insect Surfers: The Blitz, West Hempstead, NY

Live Review by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, June 1981

THE TIME: DAWN, a few weeks after the police raid on and the closing of Danceteria. The Place: The entrance to the Queens Midtown Tunnel, ...

Echo And The Bunnymen: A Promise of Rock Re-Born

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, February 1982

THE DAY AFTER THIS venerable paper's hardcore readers have enjoyed their brief, communal moment of glory in the polls, all-round prize guys Echo And the ...

A Life In The Day Of Bill Drummond

Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, April 1982

Bill Drummond, manager of The Bunnymen and The Teardrops, talks to Mark Cooper ...

Echo & The Bunnymen

Report and Interview by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, February 1983

IT WAS A trifle chilly, apparently, when the Bunnymen did the woodland photo session for their first album, Crocodiles. It was even colder on the ...

Echo and Bunnymen: Per Omnia Scallia Scalliorum

Live Review by Richard Cook, NME, February 1983

Echo and Bunnymen: Hammersmith Odeon, London ...

The Altar'd Boys: Echo and the Bunnymen

Interview by Richard Cook, NME, March 1983

The beleagured King Rock is on its discredited throne again, and Echo And The Bunnymen rule supreme. RICHARD COOK finds them holding court in ...

The Smiths and Echo & The Bunnymen: The Smith and the Bunnyman

Interview by Mark Cooper, No.1, April 1984

No.1 brings together two of rock's most charismatic singers... and two of its biggest egos as well!" ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Ocean Rain (Korova)

Review by Biba Kopf, NME, May 1984

IS IT possible to hear Echo And The Bunnymen anymore for all the noise? ...

Echo & The Bunnymen

Interview by Max Bell, Face, The, August 1984

PARTHENON DRIVE, Norris Green, is one of Liverpool's quieter backwaters. The road, with its leafy gardens and council houses, is not scarred by graffiti or ...

Echo and the Bunnymen: Warren Peace

Report and Interview by Mat Snow, NME, August 1984

NOTHING IS REAL ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Warren Peace

Interview by Dele Fadele, ZigZag, November 1985

WHEN THE CONSCIENCE AND SOUL LIE – A BODY'S GOT NO CHOICE. ...

Ian McCulloch

Interview by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, February 1990

AN HOUR BEFORE Echo and the Bunnymen went onstage in Osaka, Japan for the final date of a world tour in April 1988, singer Ian ...

Ian McCulloch: Mustn’t Grumble

Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, March 1992

Ian McCulloch’s commercial appeal may be "more selective" than it was in the glory days of Echo And Bunnymen, but at least he’s found a ...

Echo and the Bunnymen - live in Liverpool

Live Review by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, May 1997

IT'S HARD to remember now how much Echo and the Bunnymen meant. Fourteen years ago, they were crowned Kings of Rock, each album was greeted ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Hanover Grand, London

Live Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, July 1997

Echo & The Bunnymen: honesty and openness ...

Echo and the Bunnymen: Manhattan Chancer

Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, August 1997

IT'S A HOT AND sticky sunday afternoon in the Little Italy district of Manhattan, and every street corner resembles an expanded version of the wedding ...

Echo and the Bunnymen: Ian McCulloch's Favourite Things

Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, July 1998

ABBA"I REALLY DO think they're great. 'The Winner Takes It All' is so sad – the video's fantastic, Agnetha's blue eyeliner runnln' – and it ...

Echo and The Bunnymen at Mayfair, Newcastle

Live Review by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, April 1999

THE NEW Echo & The Bunnymen album is a brave move forward, a disavowal of the band's grand past for simple statements of ageing and ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: London, Astoria

Live Review by Alex Ogg, unpublished, May 1999

IT’S A STRANGE TIME for a rock gig to take place – midday on the Saturday of the FA Cup final. The unusual hour is ...

Echo and the Bunnymen: Crystal Days (1979-1999)**** (Warner Strategic Marketing)

Review by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, August 2001

MAC LADS' four-CD retrospective ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Royal Court, Liverpool

Live Review by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, December 2003

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS on, and every Liverpudlian hipster of a certain age is here to pay their respects. With their debut album, Crocodiles, Echo & The ...

Ocean Refrain: Echo and the Bunnymen

Retrospective and Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2005

To mark the release of the first Echo & The Bunnymen album in four years, Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant recall the triumphs and pitfalls ...