European Rock

Aphrodite's Child: 'Rain & Tears' 300 Yrs Old!

Profile and Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, November 1968

ONCE UPON a time, about three hundred years ago as the crow flies, a German organist with nothing better to do sat down at his ...

Wigwam, Mark 1

Retrospective by Archie Patterson, Eurock, 1976

THE RECORDINGS OF Wigwam are perhaps among the world's unknown musical treasures. In their first incarnation, they produced five of the most imaginative rock albums ...

Vangelis: The Moans And The Stares, An Ouzo And Thee

Profile and Interview by Miles, NME, November 1976

I THOUGHT I was in for a real treat. ...

Nina Hagen: Nina Hagen Band (CBS)

Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, May 1979

SAY HELLO to the next Euro cult sensation. ...

Nina Hagen, Herman Brood: Herman Brood: The Further Adventures of Herman and Nina

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, July 1979

'It's a magic, fantastic, plastic fireball/makes you strong for life/makes you stumble and fall/they're gonna call you names you never heard before/they got you comin' ...

Herman Brood: Herman Brood And His Wild Romance (Ariola) ****½

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, July 1979

THE ONLY thing against Herman Brood is his nationality. The world may simply not believe that a Dutchman can sing filthy English-language rock like this ...

X-Mal Deutschland: Mal Function

Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, January 1985

X-Mal Deutschland: the new wave of Germanic white gospel blues pop rock, or just a "really funny band" from Hamburg? Chris Roberts cuts through the ...

Propaganda: There Is No Information, Only Disinformation And Propaganda

Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, May 1985

Chris Roberts goes in search of the truth ...

Sugarcubes, The: The Sugarcubes: Town & Country Club, London

Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, January 1988

LIKE EVERYONE else. I expressly came to worship, to be defeated, to drench their names in a prolix of hopelessly imprecise euphoria. Unhappily, though, it ...

Sugarcubes, The: Sugarcubes: Shout To Lunch

Interview by David Quantick, NME, January 1992

"It is too cold in this country," sighs Einar Orn. "Cold and damp." He sips at his warming Guinness. Bjork Gudmundsdottir giggles to herself over ...

Yello: Pocket Universe

Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 1997

YELLO HAVE been into electronica since their inception in 1980, when only the most wilfully avant-garde dabbled in synthesisers for any purpose other than the ...

Hives, The: The Hives: Veni Vidi Vicious

Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, September 2000

I'M CONVINCED that there's something about Veni Vidi Vicious, that elicits borderline personality. One minute I'm singing its praises to everyone I know (including an ...

Savage Rose: An Interview

Interview by Archie Patterson, Eurock, 2002

ONE OF MY EARLIEST Euro-rock discoveries was the Danish band Savage Rose. Their first album to be released in the USA was In The Plain, ...

Hives, The: The Hives: The Junction, Cambridge

Live Review by Tom Cox, Observer, The, February 2002

The Hives put on a fine imitation of garage rock. And the garage is where it would be best appreciated ...