Lindisfarne
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Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 11 March 1972
DEFINING Lindisfarne's success is rather like pulling the wings off a butterfly at present but there seems little doubt after having seen them on stage ...
Obituary by Chris Ingham, MOJO, January 1996
WHEN I WAS 15 – AND FIVE YEARS AN EX-PAT GEORDIE – MY contemporaries idolised Strummer and Weller. I wanted to be like Alan Hull. ...
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Lindisfarne, Unicorn, Gillian McPherson: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Andrew Means, Melody Maker, 15 May 1971
THE HARSH, throbbing music of Lindisfarne generates a degree of immediacy that's uncommon. They are professional and yet there is an inherent roughness that never ...
Bob Johnston: The most envied man in pop
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 19 June 1971
Roy Carr talks to the man who records Dylan, Cash and Cohen ...
Report and Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Melody Maker, 18 December 1971
"No, we'll never work as hard as this again. It's killing the magic. And it's not doing us much good either" - Si Cowe, guitarist, ...
Lindisfarne: Selling Newcastle
Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 22 January 1972
LONG AGO AND far away when Hyde park was just a flower pot and underground meant the Bakerloo line to me I was given to ...
We Can Swing Together: A Day In The Life Of Lindisfarne
Report by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 26 April 1972
SIMON COWE ordered a pint of cider and told me he hadn't eaten anything for two days. He'd had plenty of cider though. ...
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 27 May 1972
LINDISFARNE'S MERCURIAL rise to fame in the past year has done little to alter the outlook of their chief songwriter, James Alan Hull. Hully remains ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 8 June 1972
FOG ON the Tyne has been just about the biggest album in Great Britain this year. The single off the album, 'Meet Me on the ...
Pub Fights, Gales, Oldies: The Gt. Western Festival Saga
Report by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 6 July 1972
LONDON — "Somebody leaped out at her from behind some bushes in our driveway," explained a seething Lieut-Col. Michael Underwood, "and gave her a black ...
Lindisfarne: Dingly Dell — A track by track review
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 29 July 1972
"WE'RE NOT WORRIED ABOUT A TITLE — the album doesn't need a title because the music says it all," Alan Hull declared as Lindisfarne put ...
Review by Ed Jones, Cracker, September 1972
WHEN I HEARD LINDISFARNE'S FIRST ALBUM, Nicely Out Of Tune, with its standout track, 'Lady Eleanor', a year and a half ago, I thought that ...
Lindisfarne: Suffering from a Surfeit of Kindness
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 2 September 1972
IF IT WERE ever possible to kill a group with kindness then Lindisfarne might be the first victims of their own success. Their new album ...
Lindisfarne: You Can't Carry On Being a Geordie Band Forever
Profile and Interview by Dave Laing, Let It Rock, October 1972
FINCHLEY CENTRAL, you'll recall, was a hit record for the New Vaudeville Band (I think it was the follow-up to the equally appalling 'Winchester Cathedral').It's ...
Lindisfarne, Genesis: Dublin Stadium, Dublin
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 7 October 1972
TO BE CASUAL is to be Lindisfarne, but even the most relaxed of bands have a hard time putting over a set of new numbers ...
Report and Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 7 October 1972
"FIVE CRATES OF Brown ale and a crate of Guinness please." Twelve quid across the bar to a landlord shaking his head in disbelief, and ...
Lindisfarne: The Boogie Merchants
Profile by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 4 November 1972
ROSALIND RUSSELL traces the history of the band, through their schooldays, previous groups in which they played, and their emergence first as Newcastle's top outfit ...
Lindisfarne: On and Off the Wagon
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 18 November 1972
THERE HAVE BEEN more dazzling, more debauched rock'n'roll roadshows. Some of the more spectacular have been known to cushion the strain of touring with sultry ...
The Kinks, Lindisfarne: Kennedy Centre, Washington DC
Live Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 18 November 1972
ON THEIR day the Kinks are one of the most compelling bands in Britain, and the most uncomplimentary appraisal is that Ray Davies has probably ...
British Folk Rock: Robin Hood Rides A Chopper
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 18 January 1973
Plainsong: In Search of Amelia Earhart (Elektra)Richard Thompson: Henry, the Human Fly (Warner Bros.)Steeleye Span: Below the Salt (Chrysalis)Incredible String Band: Earthspan (Reprise)Pentangle: Solomon's Seal ...
Alan Hull: Playing In The Band
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 10 March 1973
ALAN HULL, who has led Lindisfarne a stormy path across the other side of the world, is back in Barnet – the Mecca of the ...
On Reflection: Alan Hull of Lindisfarne
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 14 April 1973
FOR SEVERAL weeks there had been rumbling and muttering noises suggesting that all was not well with Lindisfarne. It was Alan Hull in a careless, ...
Wet City: Sly and Company Live in London
Report by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 21 July 1973
LIKE THE WEATHER, the music at London’s White City on Sunday was a mixture of fair and foul. ...
Lindisfarne: How Wee Wee Music Went Down The Drain
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 13 October 1973
LAST WEEK I heard the new Lindisfarne album, provisionally titled Don't Rip It...I'll Take It By The Yard with sleeve complete and scheduled for release ...
Traffic, Lindisfarne: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 28 September 1974
Terrible Traffic ...
Retrospective by Jerry Gilbert, ZigZag, March 1975
THREE YEARS AGO it seemed like the end of an era. ...
Lindisfarne: Dance Your Life Away
Review by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 13 December 1986
IT'S PHENOMENAL. Soon a whole city will be swinging together. Every Christmas, like clockwork, a bunch of hairy, balding middle-aged men take the stage and ...
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