The La's
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Interview by John McCready, New Musical Express, 24 October 1987
"WE CAN'T really play but we’re having ago. And we love music, that’s why we’re having a go... our songs are just dead catchy tunes ...
Interview by Julian Henry, Underground, January 1988
The La's earn 'totally normal' tag! ...
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 17 December 1988
THURSDAY, A PACKED Marquee. Onstage, four anoraky boys with jangling guitars. Mick Mercer's idea of Nirvana; my idea of no good reason to miss Neil ...
Interview by John McCready, The Face, 1989
INSPIRED BY a single, ‘There She Goes’, and an assortment of odd, beautiful and tangential B-sides built from nothing but raw creativity, I feel like ...
Interview by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 10 June 1989
THE LA'S ARE NOTHING if not perfectionists. After two years work they've just completed their debut LP - no wonder they look knackered as they ...
Live Review by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 21 October 1989
LA VIE EN ROSE(S) ...
Interview by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 13 October 1990
With rave reviews greeting their debut album release you'd think THE LA'S would be dead chuffed. So how come BOB STANLEY encounters a band drinking ...
The La's: This Could Be The La's Time
Interview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 20 October 1990
It took three years to make, it cost an unfeasibly huge sum, it's stuffed with great songs – but THE LA's still hate their new ...
Interview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 24 November 1990
Thought of anything nice to say about your album yet? ...
The La's: Town And Country Club, Kentish Town, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, Sounds, 24 November 1990
Thrills and (s)pills ...
Review by Tom Graves, Rock & Roll Disc, June 1991
RIGHT OUT OF the box The La’s had me hooked like a red snapper. All my complaints of yore about the bored soul at the ...
The La's: Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 1991
The La's: Tuneful, Fiat-Footed at the Fonda ...
Some Mavers Do Have ’Em: The La’s in America
Report and Interview by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 3 August 1991
The La's are sat outside a cafe in New York's Chelsea district with their manager Rob, [photographer] Tim Jarvis and me.They are relaxing before tonight's ...
Have Mersey: An Interview with The La’s’ Driving Force and Angriest Member Lee Mavers
Interview by Tom Graves, Rock & Roll Disc, September 1991
JUST WHEN YOU think you’ve seen or heard everything that could happen in the music business, something like the La’s imbroglio comes along. The ...
The La's, Sultans Of Ping FC, Spitfire, The Popguns: Sussex University Carnival, Falmer
Live Review by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 13 June 1992
SOMETHING HAS to happen to the Popguns soon. I've never pretended they were great favourites of mine, but every time I hear them, I'm taken ...
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 15 April 1995
Simple as. When Lee Mavers talks, in that cracked-up Mersey drawl of his, he talks. ...
Report and Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 5 December 1998
Lee Mavers of the La's was a star in the early nineties and idolised by Oasis. Then he fell foul of drugs and disappeared. Amid ...
The La’s: The La’s (Go! Discs)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 26 January 2001
WHO REMEMBERS the La’s when they first popped out of the Liverpool woodwork? A cherubic quartet of scallies, they were pure cutesy retro, ’60s revisitors ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 2001
LONG OVERDUE re-release of debut by great lost Britpop precursors ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, bbc.co.uk, 10 May 2010
Shows how a lasting reputation can be founded upon one lucky strike. ...
Eric's, Probe and the Armadillo: The Story Of Liverpool Music, 1976-1988
Retrospective and Interview by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 10 April 2018
Through a series of interviews, Patrick Clarke charts the history of Liverpool's brilliant, bitter and burgeoning music scene of 1976-1988, from Eric's and Probe to ...
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