Tim Footman
Tim Footman has written for The Guardian, Mojo, Time Out, Careless Talk Costs Lives and many other publications. His most recent book is Welcome to the Machine: OK Computer and the Death of the Classic Album. He blogs at http://culturalsnow.blogspot.com.
11 articles
List of articles in the library
Elvis Costello: Elvis Goes Mellow?
Interview by Tim Footman, Flipside, 1999
IT'S A TOUGH JOB, but someone's gotta do it. Declan Patrick 'Aloysius' McManus, aka Napoleon Dynamite, aka The Imposter, aka Tiny Hands Of Concrete; a ...
The Ink Spots: Blotting Up The Tears: The Ink Spots as avatars of indie
Essay by Tim Footman, Tangents, 2001
DON ESTELLE WAS in the identity parade on Never Mind The Buzzcocks the other evening. Leaving aside the leap of imagination required to contemplate that ...
Peter Skellern: Stardust and Coaldust: The melancholy magnificence of Peter Skellern
Retrospective by Tim Footman, Tangents, 2001
FOR VARIOUS REASONS I've been thinking about brass bands lately. Maybe it's a spin-off from my (by now doubtless wearying) fanboy crush on Hiroo Nakazaki's ...
Book Review by Tim Footman, Tangents, 2002
THERE'S MORE THAN one way to string a Strat, and there are several ways to tell the story of a band. The most obvious is ...
Pete Wylie: God's Busker (I Wish You'd Believe Me)
Retrospective by Tim Footman, Tangents, 2002
It's sinful.... ...
Belle and Sebastian: Brixton Academy, London (3 April, 2002)
Live Review by Tim Footman, Careless Talk Costs Lives, June 2002
THE QUEEN MOTHER has been dead for four days. I remember reading that she was a dab hand on the bongos. Belle and Sebastian have ...
Maher Shalal Hash Baz: 93 Feet East, London
Live Review by Tim Footman, Careless Talk Costs Lives, August 2002
PROFANE: Someone has lipsticked "cunt slut" on the wall of the disabled toilet. ...
Mogwai, Primal Scream, The Shop Assistants, The Wedding Present: 96 Tears
Retrospective by Tim Footman, Tangents, December 2002
I FELT A RUSH of nostalgically bad haircuts and Proustian army surplus anoraks while reading Alistair [Flitchett]'s consideration of C86. Nostalgia also for the days ...
Notes Towards a Definition Of “Indie”
Essay by Tim Footman, Careless Talk Costs Lives, January 2003
From: Jerry Thackray. To: Contributors. Sent: 15 April 2002 08:21. Subject: From MOJO. "Opening with an editorial diatribe about the state of the music press, ...
Gathering Moss: The Fossilisation of Rolling Stone
Comment by Tim Footman, Rock's Backpages, November 2003
BILLY JOEL? Billy fucking Joel??? ...
Radiohead: 'Subterranean Homesick Alien' and the Poetry of Perspective
Book Excerpt by Tim Footman, Chrome Dreams, 2007
Excerpt from Welcome to the Machine: OK Computer and the Death of the Classic Album ...
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