808 State
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Report and Interview by Push, Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, 18 August 1990
A couple of years ago, the success of DJ-based groups such as M/A/R/R/S, Coldcut, S'Express and Bomb The Bass heralded a new musical era. Now, ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 1 December 1989
State of some confusion ...
808 State plus Björk: Lido, Reykjavik
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 23 February 1991
CUBIK ICELANDIK ...
Björk & 808 State: In Yer Glacier!
Report and Interview by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 23 March 1991
I love the smell of God's farts in the morning... It smells of Reykjavik to me! Deep in the Icelandic countryside, surrounded by vile-smelling sulphur ...
808 State: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 15 April 1991
WHILE Manchester's club culture is rent asunder by rave-dazed apathy and internecine drug wars, the bands that made the scene move on. Happy Mondays are ...
Black Box, Guru Josh, Orbital, 808 State et al: Energy, Docklands Arena, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Smash Hits, 2 May 1990
TYPICAL SO-called "raves" (i.e. those massive dance parties held in cornfields off the M2S) don't usually start 'til gone midnight. Energy, which bills itself as ...
808 State: Castlefield Amphitheatre, Manchester
Live Review by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 6 July 1996
IS THIS THE way the future's really meant to feel? Or just 20,000 mutants standing in a cobbled amphitheatre? Either there's an extremely mad scientist ...
808 State: Castlefield Amphitheatre, Manchester
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 24 June 1996
THINK OF A free open-air gig on the first day of summer and you'd probably imagine hippies, loud rock music and lots of mud. All ...
808 State: Interview with Graham Massey
Interview by David Hemingway, Record Collector, February 2005
THE APHEX TWIN'S Rephlex imprint is to release a duo of 'acid house' remixes of New Order tracks on 13 September. 'Blue Monday (So Hot ...
Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 8 March 1991
Musical literacy makes sound sense ...
808 State: Town and Country Club, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 6 March 1993
THE COMPUTER-DRIVEN orchestral score that is Moby's opening gambit comes as a blessed relief. After two hours of beat-fascism courtesy of the hardcore DJ that ...
808 State: State of the Manc Union
Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 24 November 1990
The Haçienda's half full and "you have to go out of town on a Saturday night to have fun"... so can 808 STATE survive the ...
The Haçienda: Working on a Building of Love
Retrospective by John McCready, The Face, May 1997
It gives us such great joy to sayThat fifteen years ago todayA club was born — the HaçiendaA venue for the maddest bendersSo as you ...
Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 2 March 1991
808 STATE are one of the few genuine 'pop groups' of the underground scene. Not for them a bunch of hairy '60s riffs or ideologies, ...
808 State, N-Joi: G-Mex, Manchester
Live Review by John Robb, Sounds, 23 March 1991
THE RETURN to G-Mex, the core combat zone of the Manchester thing, could have been disturbing. Like, is there a thing going on anymore? The ...
Step Right On Up: Happy Mondays/808 State: G-Mex, Manchester
Live Review by John Robb, Sounds, 31 March 1990
With rave rock shifting into top gear, 8000 watch its spiritual fathers Happy Mondays go mad in Manchester G-Mex. John Robb witnesses one of the ...
Report by Len Brown, The Observer, 17 December 1989
Techno-beat may have played itself out in the capital, but in Manchester it's the rhythm which has sparked a working-class musical revolution. LEN BROWN reports ...
Interview by Lloyd Bradley, Q, April 1991
EASTERN BLOC RECORDS in Manchester's rapidly-becoming-fashionable Oldham Street is, at first glance, no different to any other specialist dance music emporium. ...
Björk, Underworld, 808 State: Irvine Beach '96, Irvine Beach Park, Scotland
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 14 September 1996
BEACHED WAILS ...
808 State: Club Citta, Kawasaki
Live Review by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 28 March 1992
FLASH IN JAPAN ...
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