Defunkt
15 articles
List of articles in the library
Live Review by Roy Trakin, Melody Maker, 9 February 1980
EVEN THE decidedly old-wave, uptown industry water-hole Trax has caught the Funk Flu that's hit this borough like an epidemic. People are dancing to progressive, ...
Defunkt, the Raybeats, James Chance: Funky, Punky and Chic
Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Melody Maker, 15 March 1980
The Raybeats and Joe Bowie's Defunkt are working on New York's newest fusion: a post-No Wave music in which James Chance's punk meets George Clinton's ...
Interview by Steve Bloom, Downbeat, June 1981
THE PURPLE tights and checkered t-shirt crowd knows for sure. They meet to the beat every night in sundry rock clubs, discharging a generationful of ...
Live Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 6 June 1981
Make my funk the D-funkt ...
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 13 June 1981
BOWIE (JOE) beats the Apple and subverts Paulo Hewitt ...
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 20 June 1981
PRESENTING upwardly mobile uptown jazz/funk from New York, Defunkt are a sharp six-piece fronted by the ever-cool Joe Bowie, who plays trombone, conducts the band ...
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, August 1981
SCREAM or be screamed at. MOVE or be removed. TAKE what you can or be taken, LOOK out or be looked for. Make them dance, make ...
Defunkt, 23 Skidoo: The Venue, London
Live Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 7 November 1981
Closer to the Bone ...
Will Punk Jazz Replace The Sounds Of Funk?
Overview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 15 November 1981
PUNK JAZZ? It's hard to imagine a more unlikely musical combination. Punk rock favors short, fast songs and disparages musical technique in favor of "anyone-can-do-it" ...
Defunkt: The Life and Death of Romance
Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 29 May 1982
Neo-realist funkt, anyone? Joe Bowie describes his big city reggae to Richard Cook. ...
Defunkt: Too Fierce For Radioland
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, June 1982
Joe Bowie, singer-songwriter-trombonist-leader talked to Kris Needs and Killing Joke bassist Youth. ...
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, August 1982
According to Joe Bowie, only his trombone and his funk-jazz band Defunkt stand between him and the imminent nuclear apocalypse. LESLEY WHITE talks to the ...
Talking Heads, Defunkt: Greek Theater, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 10 August 1982
TALKING HEADS: WHOLE LOTTA RHYTHM ...
Defunkt: Albany Empire, London
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 15 July 1983
DEFUNKT ARE in the anomalous position of being an American band playing in a singularly American style who find themselves prophets without honour — or ...
Joe Boyd: "Our own little Motown"
Interview by Mark Cooper, Q, June 1987
In the late '60s, Joe Boyd helped create a peculiarly English form of folk-psychedelia, producing albums for Fairport Convention, The Incredible String Band and Nick ...
see also Punk-Funk All Stars
see also James White and The Blacks
see also Melvin Gibbs
back to LIBRARY
