Paul Moody

Beastie Boys, The: The Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique (Capitol)

Review by Paul Moody, NME, November 1994

JUST CHILLIN', like Bob Dylan. Paul's Boutique, five years on from its release way back in August '89, is still an electrifying blast of cool. ...

Beck: “I’m trying to get to this place where you can stand outside the parameters of what’s possible.”

Profile and Interview by Paul Moody, Dazed & Confused, 1996

BECK’S OFFBEAT HUMOUR and devil-may-care demeanour usually leaves journalists baffled, and interviews that reveal very little. But this time Beck is unafraid to drop his ...

Black Grape: Pips Out For The Lads

Interview by Paul Moody, NME, June 1995

If you expected old fruit SHAUN RYDER to come back as reconstructed new man you were pissing in the wind. PAUL MOODY discovers that the ...

Blur: We Can Be Eros… Just For One Day

Interview by Paul Moody, NME, March 1994

Breaking out of the Camden bootboy mould that brought more bovver than they’d bargained for, BLUR are back with more songs about penile dementia, lager ...

Blur: Mother’s Litter Helpers: Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish

Review by Paul Moody, NME, 1993

AND THE FOOLS laugh loudest. Blur’s rise and fall has all the comic nuances of Reginald Perrin’s. Two years ago they were pop’s champagne Charlies: ...

Boo Radleys, The: The Boo Radleys: Giant Steps (Creation)

Review by Paul Moody, NME, 1993

TIME FOR a rethink. At some point (just between the dreamy acoustic sway of ‘Wish I Was Skinny’ and ‘Leaves And Sand’ I think, but ...

Chemical Brothers, The, Death In Vegas: The Chemical Brothers, Death In Vegas: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Paul Moody, NME, April 1994

"E'S, COKE, anything you want..." Yeah, you gotta admit it: Brixton knows how to party. No sooner have you navigated your way around the slurring ...

Depeche Mode: Hanover Garbsen Stadium

Live Review by Paul Moody, NME, June 1993

IN A marquee in the middle of a German field, Martin Gore is being cross-examined about the quasi-religious imagery of his lyrics by a frizzy-haired ...

Jamiroquai: Cardiff University, Wales

Live Review by Paul Moody, NME, November 1994

Champignon, The (Stevie) Wonder Hoarse ...

La's, The: The La's: Town And Country Club, Kentish Town, London

Live Review by Paul Moody, Sounds, November 1990

Thrills and (s)pills ...

La's, The: There He’s Gone: Lee Mavers

Interview by Paul Moody, Melody Maker, April 1995

Simple as. When Lee Mavers talks, in that cracked-up Mersey drawl of his, he talks. ...

Lemonheads, The: The Lemonheads: Come On Feel The Lemonheads

Review by Paul Moody, NME, October 1993

FIRST, THE good news; this album will drive people mad. For Evan Dando, deeply dippy, crack-smokin’, high priest of slackerdom, has actually managed to create ...

Ocean Colour Scene: Ladbroke Grove Subterania

Live Review by Paul Moody, Sounds, November 1990

AT TIMES tonight, Ocean Colour Scene really do make sense. When Stephen Craddock's guitar bursts into 'Yesterday Today' and singer Simon matches it with a ...

Primal Scream: International Language of Screaming

Report and Interview by Paul Moody, NME, September 1997

So what if Primal Scream have cancelled tour dates, lost a band member and played a shaky live performance? They're just minor glitches which cannot ...

Prince: Birmingham National Indoor Arena

Live Review by Paul Moody, NME, August 1993

THE TINY FIGURE in silky lemon and black trouser-suit and Spanish heels is talking. ...

Radiohead: Turn On, Tune In, Rock Out: Radiohead at the Richmond, Brighton

Live Review by Paul Moody, NME, 1993

WE COULDN’T have waited much longer really, could we? What with Suede so colossal, and the likes of The Auteurs and Kinky Machine still rubbing ...

Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: Bridges To Babylon (Virgin)

Review by Paul Moody, NME, September 1997

TO CALL the Stones dinosaurs three years from the end of the century is to put tyrannosauraus rex and his Jurassic associates to shame. It ...

Spiritualized, Levitation: Hackney Empire, London

Live Review by Paul Moody, NME, April 1993

A BALD man in a silver suit is pumping plumes of silver smoke from the balcony in between playing mood-altering ambient tape-loops. Below him, the ...

Suede: Meet the New Boy

Interview by Paul Moody, NME, October 1994

Dartmoor, Devon, and the mist-shrouded figure wrapped in a Victorian great-coat playing the role of Flashman can only be BRETT ANDERSON. But how is Housewife ...

Pete Townshend: Parka Life

Interview by Paul Moody, NME, July 1994

PETE TOWNSHEND, Broadway hit musical owner and destroyer of 1001 guitars, is lounging in the shade of a Twickenham afternoon like a man who's just ...

Urge Overkill: Cocktail of the Unexpected

Interview by Paul Moody, NME, December 1994

Supersuave trashlords with cocktail lounge tendencies, 
Chicago's URGE OVERKILL are finally surfing the British chart 
on the back of a surprise hit, taken from the ...

Verve, The: The Verve: Manchester Roadhouse

Live Review by Paul Moody, NME, June 1995

SO THAT’S what it sounds like. A long, curdled up intro, all ghostly pyrotechnics and a death rattle of drums, then suddenly, whoosh! And the ...

Paul Weller: Wild Wood (Go! Discs)

Review by Paul Moody, NME, 1994

SOMETHING TO mull over. Paul Weller has been having hit records for 16 years. Wild Wood – the follow-up to his wildly-underrated debut solo outing ...

Paul Weller: Woking Back To Happiness: Paul Weller

Interview by Paul Moody, NME, May 1995

It’s taken over a decade, but with his new album PAUL WELLER has finally gone back to his roots, the part of his life that ...