Cracker
Cracker was a cultural listing magazine published in Edinburgh during the 1970s.
19 articles
Interview by Ed Jones, Cracker, November 1971
I interviewed him in the afternoon, before his concert on 30 October 1971, at The Empire Theatre, Edinburgh — that began at 11.30pm — as ...
Soft Machine: Interview with Hugh Hopper
Interview by Ed Jones, Cracker, January 1972
WELL, YA KNOW HOW IT IS ON SATURDAY EVENINGS. The rain was terrible, and I couldn't get a bus and, well, by the time I ...
Family's Roger Chapman: Aff His Heid?
Interview by Ed Jones, Cracker, 15 January 1972
AS ROGER CHAPMAN of Family burst on to the Empire Theatre stage the other night, the ecstatic roars from the audience were counterpointed by knowing ...
Roy Harper: "Maybe I'm A F***ing Idiot."
Interview by Ed Jones, Cracker, February 1972
THE MUSIC PRESS USUALLY PORTRAYS ROY HARPER as a kind of fringe lunatic whose gloomy and paranoid view of the world reflects a personal pain ...
Curved Air: Sonja Kristina — Curved Air
Interview by Ed Jones, Cracker, April 1972
GLITTER-GARBED and blond-streaked, Sonja Kristina had just returned from a bill-topping Curved Air tour of Germany the day that we met in her London PR's ...
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 ...
Mike Hart: Basher, Chalky, Pongo And Me
Review by Ed Jones, Cracker, September 1972
ONCE UPON A TIME there was a 10-years-in-the-business guitarist/ songwriter who had to get his second solo L.P. together while simultaneously trying to keep his ...
Live Review by Ed Jones, Cracker, October 1972
AS WE CRUISED TOWARDS GRANGEMOUTH in the Cracker-mobile, hoping for a day of peace'n'love near Falkirk, our suspicions should have been aroused by the RAC's ...
Alice Cooper, Flo & Eddie: With Alice in Glasgow
Report by Ed Jones, Cracker, November 1972
GREEN'S PLAYHOUSE is like a vast seedy Roman amphitheatre, a black roaring cauldron of sweat, smoke and screams. The Glasgow audience is tough, gritty and ...
Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds Of Fire (CBS)
Review by Ed Jones, Cracker, January 1973
AROUND O-LEVEL time in 1964, I went to the Usher Hall to see the Moody Blues in concert. 'Go Now', that anthem of pleasant teenscene ...
Beck, Bogert and Appice: Beck, Bogert & Appice: Beck, Bogert & Appice
Review by Ed Jones, Cracker, April 1973
THE FIRST I REMEMBER HEARING OF JEFF BECK was when he was in The Yardbirds, around the time Clapton and Jimmy Page were coming up ...
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Kelvin Hall, Glasgow
Live Review by Ed Jones, Cracker, June 1973
WHY DOES EVERYBODY TALK ABOUT GLASGOW as if it's some kind of Clockwork Orange nightmare? In Glasgow the policemen ask you to go to the ...
Report by Ed Jones, Cracker, June 1973
AT 18, RICHARD BRANSON STARTED a nationwide magazine called Student, from a basement in Connaught Square, London. Realising that literacy was a faltering skill among ...
Live Review by Ed Jones, Cracker, 26 September 1973
AFTER MORE THAN AN HOUR'S TEDIOUS WAIT while the roadies languidly set up their gear, Argent began with 'It's Only Money': strong vocals, synthesiser from ...
Status Quo: The Empire, Edinburgh
Live Review by Ed Jones, Cracker, October 1973
FOR A KICKOFF, let's get one thing straight: Status Quo's popularity depends not at all on critical approval or otherwise. Their audience at The Empire ...
Wizzard On Tour: Where’s The Backpipes?
Report and Interview by Ed Jones, Cracker, October 1973
THE ACREAGE OF FADED DENIM at the Edinburgh University Student centre of a Friday night is truly staggering. Staggering too are the majority of the ...
Review by Ed Jones, Cracker, November 1973
I WAS SURPRISED when Faust's third album, The Faust Tapes, became a chart hit (even at only 48p.) because it seemed so wilfully arbitrary and ...
Chick Corea, Return to Forever: Chick Corea: Return To Forever (ECM)
Review by Ed Jones, Cracker, February 1974
WITH THE demise of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, other record companies are looking for their own spacey, super-excellent, speedy-riffing jazz-rock group to grab some of the ...
Review by Ed Jones, Cracker, February 1974
REMEMBER CONCEPT ALBUMS? Remember when sounds meant being zonked? Remember Hieronymus Bosch album covers? Remember when rock was hippy-fascist acid guilt trips? Remember when they ...
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