Andrew Mueller

American Music Club: 'Club for Zeroes'

Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, March 1993

AMC MAKE MUSIC for losers, loners, early-hour fuck-ups and late-night wasters. Perfect for us, really. ...

Arrested Development: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, October 1994

IT TAKES A while, but I finally work out what it is they remind me of. ...

Beenie Man: Tatchell v Beenie Man: Arrest This Development

Comment by Andrew Mueller, Guardian, The, September 2004

LET'S HOPE THAT no friends of the Jamaican dancehall artist Beenie Man have recently reminded him that the only thing worse than being talked about ...

Johnny Cash: Cash Upfront

Comment by Andrew Mueller, Guardian, The, January 2006

WALK THE LINE, James Mangold's cinematic telling of the early life of Johnny Cash, takes its title from one of its subject's best-known songs. ...

Elvis Costello: Elvis Lives!!!

Interview by Andrew Mueller, On The Street, January 1989

IN THE BEGINNING was the Word. And the word was No.No as in No Interview. Elvis Costello would be talking about his forthcoming album, Spike, ...

Fatima Mansions: The Garage, Highbury, London

Live Review by Andrew Mueller, NME, May 1994

THE FIRST hundred through the doors are issued with oranges — satsumas are out of season — and a free single ('Humiliate Me') in a ...

INXS Need You Tonight

Report by Andrew Mueller, Guardian, The, March 2005

IT'S NOT THE sort of job that often gets advertised. Michael Hutchence, notwithstanding his bizarre death, aged 37, in 1997, generally looked like he was ...

INXS: Michael Hutchence 1960-1997

Obituary by Andrew Mueller, Vox, January 1998

THAT MICHAEL HUTCHENCE should fail to reach his 40th birthday is, perhaps, no surprise in itself – his career was distinguished by a wholehearted subscription ...

James: Lucky Jim

Profile and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Independent, The, July 1997

THE LAND AROUND here looks like nothing much at all, which is why it can be made to look like almost anything you like. ...

Jesus & Mary Chain, The: The Jesus & Mary Chain: Chain Reaction

Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, June 1995

"I MUST REMEMBER," says Jim Reid, "never to come here again." ...

Long Ryders, The: The Long Ryders: Lock 17, London

Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Independent, The, July 2004

THE LONG RYDERS enter to a tape of the theme tune from The Magnificent Seven, and begin their set with a cover of the Byrds' ...

Microdisney: Daunt Square To Elsewhere

Sleevenotes by Andrew Mueller, Castle, 2007

THE VERY fact of this compilation's existence tells you a great deal about the music it contains, and the band it honours. The most recent ...

Willie Nelson: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Independent, The, April 2005

AT THIS LATE stage, attending a Willie Nelson concert is more a gesture of pilgrimage than anything else. Nelson, now 71, with a ponytail that ...

Randy Newman: Overdue Renaissance Of A Whimsical Prophet

Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Independent, The, February 2004

Randy Newman: Barbican, London ...

Pearl Jam, Nirvana: Pearl Jam: Reluctant Hero

Comment by Andrew Mueller, Vox, January 1995

After years of putting Eddie Vedder down, Kurt Cobain's final retribution was to pass him Grunge's crown of thorns. But will he be able to ...

Pop Will Eat Itself: No One Likes Us, We Don't Care

Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, March 1995

SO NO ONE likes Pop Will Eat Itself, and they don't care. Not strictly true, of course – after all, they've enjoyed a good dozen ...

Radiohead: Medium Wavering

Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, April 1995

Radiohead: The Forum, London ...

Radiohead, R.E.M.: R.E.M./Radiohead: Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford, CT

Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, October 1995

SCARY 'MONSTERS' AND SUPER 'CREEPS' ...

Sleeper: The Venue, Edinburgh

Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, February 1995

IF NOTHING ELSE, it's one of the better conjuring tricks of the age. Sleeper, as a musical entity, are resolutely standard issue, yet are hailed ...

U2: The Year of Living Dangerously

Report and Interview by Andrew Mueller, The Irish Independent, December 1997

U2 started '97 badly, but their annus horribilis has undergone a miraculous recovery. Interview: Andrew Mueller ...

Hunter S Thompson: Rock of Rages

Comment by Andrew Mueller, Guardian, The, February 2005

FOLLOWING HUNTER S THOMPSON'S suicide, many obituarists, looking for a representative snippet of the Doctor's bug-eyed vitriol, served up the following trenchant assessment of the ...

Polyphonic Spew

Comment by Andrew Mueller, Guardian, The, July 2004

THERE IS NO PERSON more deluded than he or she who has a song programmed into their mobile phone. ...

Rhyme and Punishment

Comment by Andrew Mueller, Guardian, The, February 2004

YOU MAY HAVE heard this yarn – it's one of those things people email each other, that they might share a chuckle at the foibles ...

Rock In The Dock

Comment by Andrew Mueller, Guardian, The, January 2003

A FEW WEEKS ago, a nationwide leap in gun crime was lent grim focus by the murder of two young women at a party in ...

The Guitar: Axes To Grind

Comment by Andrew Mueller, Guardian, The, November 2003

ACCORDING TO A body of instrument suppliers called the Music Industries Association, in the last 12 months the British people bought no less than 700,000 ...

Woodstock '94: Dirty Weekend

Report by Andrew Mueller, Vox, October 1994

Only the pissing rain made Woodstock '94 faithful to the original. Mostly, it was a hyped-up, chaotic gathering of middle-class punters and middle-order bands. ...