Plan B
Plan B was a monthly music magazine founded in June 2004 by writer Everett True, and based in London, England. It catered mainly towards independent music, but also documented alternative culture such as film, comics, video games, visual art and books. The magazine ceased publication in May 2009.
37 articles
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Blonde Redhead: The Social, Nottingham
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Plan B, June 2004
I LET MY daughter do my make-up tonight. She has a delicate touch, combined with an innate understanding of excessive face paint and its ability ...
Live Review by Stevie Chick, Plan B, June 2004
I WANT TO BELIEVE in impossible things. I want to believe in true love in a cynical world. I want to believe that, yes, Andy ...
Profile and Interview by Stevie Chick, Plan B, June 2004
Graham Coxon just wasn't made for these times. It's OK — the fairies are keeping an eye on him. ...
Live Review by Frances Morgan, Plan B, June 2004
SAW LIARS TWO years ago, uncomfortable on a big stage. They looked sharp and they played sharp. I liked it a lot. They looked itchy-scratchy ...
Profile and Interview by Frances Morgan, Plan B, June 2004
FOUR JAPANESE women are running through the Camber Sands car park, wrapped in dresses and blankets and ponchos, straight hair blowing in the east wind. ...
Review by Everett True, Plan B, June 2004
POLLY HARVEY. This is her seventh album. It's better than her sixth, 2001 's set of NYC travel diaries, Stories From The City, Stories From ...
The Von Bondies: Sex the Von Bondies Way
Interview by Everett True, Plan B, June 2004
The anatomy of a Detroit love affair; or, why we no longer want to fuck The Von Bondies ...
Review by Everett True, Plan B, June 2004
IT'S SONIC YOUTH. It comforts. It cajoles. It caresses. It's classic rock. ...
Can: Monster Movie/Tago Mago/Ege Bamyasi/Soundtracks
Review by Frances Morgan, Plan B, September 2004
MY MEMORIES aren't sepia-tinted; they're midnight-blue and smile-white, fleet-footed but with ash on my toes and holes in my tights where I kicked off my ...
Joanna Newsom: Daydream Believer
Profile and Interview by Frances Morgan, Plan B, September 2004
Joanna Newsom is a new kind of folk heroine, plucking out spells and lullabies on 46 thrumming strings. ...
Joanna Newsom: Komedia, Brighton
Live Review by Everett True, Plan B, September 2004
THE GIRLS ARE chattering, talking in hushed whispers: "God, but she's so beautiful." Yeah, but it's a strange idyll of beauty, so Southern USA, so ...
Marianne Faithfull, Tom Waits: Marianne Faithfull: Before The Poison; Tom Waits: Real Gone
Review by Everett True, Plan B, September 2004
WHAT KEEPS FOLK like Waits and Faithfull from phoning it in? Why do they feel a need to reinvent themselves, seek out new styles like ...
Retrospective and Interview by Everett True, Plan B, September 2004
20 years ago, Marine Girls made two albums of beautifully minimal girly pop based round a shared love for flapjacks, Young Marble Giants and the ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Review by Neil Kulkarni, Plan B, September 2004
HEY, LOOK, I believed once. I realised I was buying well-read misogyny, suckered into being controlled by a perfect simulacrum of anarchy. ...
The Dirtbombs: The Beach, Brighton
Live Review by Stevie Chick, Plan B, October 2004
ALL WE CAN HEAR is the jackhammer beat, drummers Ben Blackwell and Patrick Pantano pummelling the traps with hypnotic, metronomic klang, cowbell and bass drum ...
Comets On Fire, Julian Cope: Comets On Fire/Julian Cope: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Stevie Chick, Plan B, February 2005
EVEN THOUGH THE rock star's wearing denim jeans, a strong waft of leather-kekkedness has wandered idly to Seats 2 & 3, Row E, Upper Stalls. ...
Profile and Interview by Frances Morgan, Plan B, February 2005
Baroque electronic antiquarians Jeans Team dream of a Berlin-on-Sea. ...
M. Ward: M Ward: Transistor Radio
Review by Frances Morgan, Plan B, February 2005
THE TRANSISTOR RADIO — best friend of the Shaggs ("My companion is with me wherever I go/My companion is of course my radio"), occult portal ...
Live Review by Frances Morgan, Plan B, February 2005
HE'S SINGING guide vocals, marking the chords on a chiming Gibson. Wordless lilts warm him up and take us down; sweet meetings of finger and ...
Lydia Lunch: The Bottom Line: Everett True meets Lydia Lunch
Interview by Everett True, Plan B, February 2005
"I ALWAYS BRING my prophylactic along on touragainst other people's germs — the mic cover. If you smell mics, you know why. They're raunchy. When ...
The Mars Volta: Frances The Mute
Review by Stevie Chick, Plan B, February 2005
A thing of gaudy glory and ensnaring riddles that returns all the concentration you invest in it. ...
Review by Frances Morgan, Plan B, February 2005
THE LINE between my eyebrows deepens, furrows, branches into tiny new rivulets of experience. My ear canals are bruised and my perfect pitch flattened (by ...
Arcade Fire: King's College, London
Live Review by Frances Morgan, Plan B, April 2005
WE WERE LATE, and lost. We took the lift and arrived at the wrong floor. I asked a white-shirted boy where the band were. Which ...
Interview by Neil Kulkarni, Plan B, April 2005
"BOREDOM IS SO PRODUCTIVE. It makes you want to please yourself and no one else. I'm just hopeful that other people can dig what I'm ...
Interview by Neil Kulkarni, Plan B, April 2005
ASK HOOD whether their new album, Outside Closer, is a break with or continuation of their past work, and this is how much they're willing ...
M. Ward: M Ward: Have Love Will Travel
Interview by Everett True, Plan B, April 2005
A visit to soulful songwriter M Ward's Portland home: Schumann, Sonic Youth and "musical silence". ...
Born Heller: 12 Bar Club, London
Live Review by Frances Morgan, Plan B, May 2005
FEBRUARY WAS so cold it was almost fun. Snow whipped round the corners of buildings, full in your face. Under the railway arches, I found ...
Nirvana: The Betrayal Of Olympia
Retrospective and Interview by Everett True, Plan B, May 2005
How the home of K Records, Sub Pop, Riot Grrrl and the punk rock librarians gave rise to Nirvana, and became subsumed into the myth ...
Orange Juice: The Glasgow School
Review by Everett True, Plan B, June 2005
"They say there's a thousand like you/Maybe that's true/I fell for you and nobody else" — 'Falling and Laughing' ...
Sleater-Kinney: The Power Of Three
Interview by Everett True, Plan B, June 2005
Seven albums in, trailblazing Olympia trio Sleater-Kinney still feel like punk rock ruffians. ...
The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan
Review by Stevie Chick, Plan B, June 2005
THERE WAS almost a point, deep into Elephant, where you could sense something slipping away from Jack White. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Everett True, Plan B, August 2005
SO THURSTON MOORE'S leaning over the front of the stage, lanky, his instrument howling with distortion; one moment he's sawing at the edge of an ...
Review by Everett True, Plan B, August 2005
NICE TITLE. (It references the fourth Ramones album, where Tommy added both acoustic guitar and solos, a pin-perfect mixture of the NYC band's minimal and ...
Live Review by Everett True, Plan B, October 2005
HOW COOL IS this intoxication? She struts onstage dressed like a goddamn old-fashioned rock'n'roll star in her man's jacket and dirty boots. She pirouettes a ...
Franz Ferdinand: T.V.O.D.: In the green room with Franz Ferdinand
Interview by Everett True, Plan B, October 2005
FOR SHEER ENNUI and inertia, waiting in a Channel 4 green room for a band to finish 40-mmute take for a TV show so you ...
Young Marble Giants: The Big And The Small
Interview by Everett True, Plan B, February 2006
A rare audience with early Rough Trade enigmas, Young Marble Giants ...
Interview by Neil Kulkarni, Plan B, April 2007
WHAT ARE you playing at? "Not what you think" whispers Infinite Livez, Big Dada's most wayward emissary and co–creator (alongside Swedish electrojazz–duo Stade) of a ...
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