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Alice Cooper: Alice Cooper Goes To Hell
Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 10 July 1976
THIS ALBUM HAS already received an almost unamimous thumbs-down form the staff, which really suprises as it's no better or worse than Welcome To My ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: The Giraffe Looked At Siouxsie
Report by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 17 February 1979
"WHAT DO you think of it, then?" sneered Siouxsie Sioux as we slipped into the Kurfurstendamm, Berlin's notorious main strip, which is like Oxford Street ...
The Cure: A Demonstration Of Household Appliances
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 May 1979
THE OFFICES of Fiction Records are located a stone's throw from Willesden High Street — a handy five-minutes stroll from the tube station — sequestered ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie And The Banshees: Join Hands (Polydor)
Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 1 September 1979
(IT'S MY party and) I'll mystify if I want to! ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: There Was I Waiting At The Church
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 22 September 1979
NICK KENT feels the wrath of Siouxsie Sioux and Steve Severin ...
The Cure: Capitol Theatre, Aberdeen
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 22 September 1979
THIS GIG with The Cure supposedly supporting the Banshees had a somewhat surprising outcome which you'll have read about last week in this journal but ...
The Cramps: Palladium, New York
Live Review by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 12 November 1979
PUNK AND PUMPKINS at the Palladium, turned for a night into a seance for Houdini. Garish garb and glorious: the human Quaalude, a walking cassette ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie And The Bitter Pill
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 23 February 1980
Siouxsie isn't just concerned about being a rock musician, she has strong feelings on other matters as well. Interview by ROSALIND RUSSELL ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Haul Of Mirrors
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, May 1980
SIOUXIE AND THE BANSHEES MAY CALL THEIR NEW LP KALEIDOSCOPE, REFLECTING THEIR NEW, MULTI-FACETTED STRENGTH. HERE THEY TALK ABOUT THE NEW SONGS AND PLANS... ...
Bauhaus: University of Surrey, Guildford
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 24 May 1980
TAKE RISKS and you win some and you lose more than you would if you didn't. Bauhaus declared their intentions with the title of their ...
The Cure: Seventeen Seconds (Fiction) ****½
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 24 May 1980
REALLY HANDY for you isn't it, reviewing an album a month after release when it's already up to 20 in the charts? Sorry. Don't blame ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Kaleidoscope (Polydor)
Review by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 26 July 1980
STRANGE TO think that, as the Banshees' contemporaries head off for the fourth or even fifth time in the studio, Kaleidoscope marks only the third ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees: In From The Cold
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 2 August 1980
ROSALIND RUSSELL INTERVIEWS; SIOUXSIE AND STEVE SEVERIN WARM UP ...
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 28 February 1981
SIOUXSIE AND The Banshees are now one of the great British bands. There is no way to conceive just how radically they have been transformed ...
The Cramps: Psychedelic Jungle (IRS)
Review by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 14 May 1981
FROM THE DEPTHS of the primeval rain forest they came, bathed in hideous blue light, muttering of voodoo and rotting bones and things that go ...
The Cure: Swaying with the Cure
Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 16 May 1981
READING ON a rainy Sunday afternoon is about as cold and empty as an English town can get. There's no one on the street and ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees: Juju (Polydor POLD 1034)
Review by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 20 June 1981
Single file Siouxsie ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie and the Banshees: A Kiss In The Dreamhouse (Polydor)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, unpublished, 1982
WITHIN STRAIGHT-LACED Vienna at the turn of the century, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were producing graphic works which rebelled against the dying vestiges of ...
The Virgin Prunes: Virgin Prunes: The Venue, London
Live Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 23 January 1982
THE VIRGIN Prunes are Irish. This has got nothing whatsoever to do with the comically inept state of their performance art, but it might explain ...
Bauhaus: Darkness and Degradation in Sound and Word
Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, February 1982
But first let’s talk about Northampton! ...
Poison Girls, Rubella Ballet: Rubella Ballet: Pop! Go the measles
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 13 March 1982
MICK SINCLAIR accepts a dinner date from Rubella Ballet ...
Bauhaus: Breaking Down The Walls Of Art-Ache
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 20 March 1982
"When we heard that you were going to interview us, we came up with two possibilities: a, being physical violence, and b, being a reasoned ...
Christian Death: Only Theatre Of Pain (Frontier)
Review by Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 17 April 1982
HERE I sit, twiddling my thumbs, meanwhile – "Incurable disease on the day of rest/Walking on the water in a sea of incest/I've got the ...
Siouxsie & the Banshees: Stare Case
Report and Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 12 June 1982
Siouxsie raises eyebrows in Sweden ...
45 Grave, Vox Pop: California Screamin': 45 Grave and Vox Pop
Profile and Interview by Byron Coley, New York Rocker, September 1982
"All I can say is that everyone in Vox Pop is smarter than everyone in 45 Grave."--Jeff Dahl, May '82"I'm smarter than everyone in Vox ...
Interview by Jon Wilde, ZigZag, October 1982
Unrolling, unfolding from Panic Button to unrestrained passion called Sex Gang Children which rigidly refuses to slip and slide conveniently into anybody's scheme of things; ...
Southern Death Cult: The Last Tribe
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 2 October 1982
Post punk comes the last tribe, SOUTHERN DEATH CULT, a Bradford group who attack the centralisation of media and political power in London. PAUL MORLEY ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie and the Banshees: A Kiss in The Dreamhouse (Polydor)
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 6 November 1982
IT'S RARE for a group to make their fourth LP and still be provocative, still be interested in themselves, let alone break any substantially new ...
Profile and Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 4 December 1982
A PERSISTING feeling about this lot, an initial notion akin to hurt and confused indifference that just won't say goodbye, is my proof that I'm ...
Sisters of Mercy: Razor Shock: Sisters of Mercy
Report and Interview by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 1983
HOW ODD this all looks, reflected in the opaque black lenses of Wayne Hussey's absolutely Ian Hunter shades. ...
Sisters of Mercy: The Sisters Of Mercy: The Devils Floorshow
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 15 January 1983
Adam Sweeting unravels the stream of consciousness gushing forth from the SISTERS OF MERCY. ...
Sex Gang Children, Southern Death Cult: Positive Punk: Blood And Roses
Overview by Richard North, New Musical Express, 19 February 1983
PART ONE "Don't dream it, be it." — Rocky Horror Show ...
The Lords Of The New Church: I Just Wanna Testify
Report by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1983
IT'S LIKE a scene from a Lisa Robinson rock novel, here at Swingo's Hotel in downtown Cleveland. The lobby's a baroque mishmash of fake 18th-century ...
Xmal Deutschland: Fetisch (4 AD)
Review by Richard North, New Musical Express, 21 May 1983
GERMAN GOTHIC ...
Sisters of Mercy: Sisters Under The Scales: The Reptile House EP
Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 16 July 1983
DEEP IN the woods a funeral is swinging ... ...
The Cult: Death Cult: Trinity Hall, Bristol
Live Review by Richard North, New Musical Express, 17 September 1983
OH QUEL CULT! ...
Bauhaus, Peter Murphy: Peter Murphy: Searching for Satori
Interview by Helen Fitzgerald, Melody Maker, 8 October 1983
Almost two months after the Bauhaus split PETER MURPHY finally breaks his silence and lets his mask slip. Wounded but not beaten, he confides all ...
Flesh For Lulu: A Glimpse of Stocking
Interview by Jon Wilde, ZigZag, December 1983
THE FAINT echo of a song mingled with his rush of black lust as he drew closer, sensing the heavenly, vital air about her. The ...
Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, June 1984
IT WOULD take a century of three-foot-thick ZigZags to truly describe the weird scenes, huge fun, turmoils, wobblers, windups, triumphs and downers of nearly three ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Hyaena (Wonderland/Polydor)
Review by Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 4 August 1984
THE NIGHT Siouxsie wore her hyaena suit and made mischief of one kind and another God called her "Wild Thing!" and she threatened to engulf ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 11 August 1984
"WE'RE ABOUT as gothic as goldfishes," pin-points bassist Pete, pulling on his can of Special Brew, deep within the bowels of Blackwing Studios. ...
The Cult: The Cultivation Of A Better Noise
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 6 October 1984
The tribal panavisuals of The Cult have rallied hordes. But CYNTHIA ROSE discovered the true extension chords lurking in the minds behind the war-paint. DEREK ...
Sisters Of Mercy: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 2 November 1984
THERE WAS a time when the Sisters of Mercy would have provided not so much a performance in themselves as an excuse for the audience ...
Report by Hugh Jarse, ZigZag, February 1985
Hugh Jarse reveals exemplary behaviour following Flesh For Lulu across America. ...
Coil: The Soil And Spoil Tactics Of Coil
Interview by Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 20 April 1985
WHEN YOU'RE up to your nose in shit, goes the Spaghetti wisdom, keep your mouth shut. ...
The Cure: Robert Smith: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, October 1985
"We can't make it. We are ready to die when we are born. We are the patsies. And I hate the intellectual freak who realises ...
The Cult, Barbra Streisand: The Cult: Love (Sire); Barbra Streisand: The Broadway Album (Columbia)
Review by J. Kordosh, Creem, April 1986
STONEY END ...
The Cure, The Waterboys: Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 28 April 1986
THE CURE stepped boldly from the shadows to close the series of Sound Waves For Greenpeace shows with a towering set which lasted nearly two ...
10,000 Maniacs, The Cure: The Cure/10,000 Maniacs: The Pier, New York City
Live Review by Abby Weissman, East Coast Rocker, 23 July 1986
THE CURE do what they damn please; it is both their strength and their curse. During their ten years together, the band has changed attitude ...
Fields Of The Nephilim: Shoot It Up: Fields of the Nephilim
Profile and Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 13 September 1986
THE FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM – hardly a moniker you can shoot from the hip. They wear Stetsons and describe their music as "Spaghetti Metal!" ...
All About Eve, Xmal Deutschland: Xmal Deutschland, All About Eve: The Underground, Croydon, London
Live Review by Jon Wilde, Sounds, 27 September 1986
PUPPET SHOW ...
Interview by Sylvia Patterson, Smash Hits, 5 November 1986
The Mission might have a big hit with 'Stay With Me', but they still can't afford their own make-up bags — so they have to ...
The Cult: All You Need Is Love Rock!
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 2 April 1987
HOWARD JOHNSON tries very hard not to say 'I told you so' (and fails) as THE CULT cast aside any 'Gothic' or 'Alternative' tags that ...
Live Review by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 2 May 1987
'WARP FACTOR BORE ...
The Cure: Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (Fiction)
Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 30 May 1987
THE PERFECT KISS ...
The Cure: In Search Of El Dorado
Report and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, July 1987
EARLY IN THE evening of 27 March 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Robert Smith is sipping tea in the air-conditioned cool of The Cure's luxury ...
The Mission, Sisters of Mercy: Sisters Of Mercy: The Man Who Told The World
Interview by Neil Perry, Sounds, 19 September 1987
Two years in the twilight world, ANDREW ELDRITCH hits back with the 1987 SISTERS OF MERCY. In this interview with NEIL PERRY he discusses his acrimonious split ...
Sisters of Mercy: The Sisters Of Mercy: After The Flood
Interview by Ted Mico, Melody Maker, 14 November 1987
Having amazed the populace with the overwhelming choral glory of 'This Corrosion,' the Sisters Of Mercy are back with a vengeance with a new album, ...
Review by David Sinclair, Q, January 1988
WHILE ANDREW ELDRITCH has been away, all sorts of musical mice have been out to play. In the wake of the first and last Sisters ...
Fields Of The Nephilim: The Marquee, London
Live Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 16 January 1988
NEPHI-PHLEGM ...
The Mission: The Maturing of The Mission
Interview by Neil Perry, Sounds, 6 February 1988
Following a hectic and often hair-raising year, including four months spent aboard a bus touring the States, THE MISSION are propelling themselves into 1988 with a new ...
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 9 April 1988
MISSION II: On Monday, The Mish came a cropper, limping off after a malformed 'Tower Of Strength' appropriately put paid to a well-below-par showing. ...
Fields Of The Nephilim: Leeds Polytechnic
Live Review by Dave Simpson, Record Mirror, 4 June 1988
AND IT CAME to pass that a fog did descend upon the earth, and out of the mist there did come... a RIFF! ...
Skinny Puppy: Fulham Greyhound, London
Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 4 June 1988
AS SKINNY PUPPY'S frontman Kevin Ogilvie – a man known to friends as Nivek Ogre – hoists a hideously pathetic dog dummy over his shoulder ...
Live Review by Neil Perry, Sounds, 1 October 1988
The winds of change ...
Diamanda Galás: The Demon Diva
Interview by Mark Sinker, Melody Maker, 7 January 1989
As the AIDS epidemic spreads and all pop can do is turn a blind eye, Diamanda Galas is the only singer left to stand and ...
The Cure: The Curious Case Of The Cure
Interview by Johnny Black, The Times, 26 April 1989
IF ANY ROCK millionaire other than Robert Smith claimed not to know the chart position of his latest single, it would be impossible to believe. ...
Review by David Sinclair, Q, May 1989
Led-heavy and light of finger, The Cult are back ...
The Mission, Pete Wylie: Hillsborough: You'll Never Walk Alone
Live Review by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 13 May 1989
IN THE WAKE OF THE HILLSBOROUGH TRAGEDY, THE MISSION, PETE WYLIE, MICK JONES AND THE LA'S PERFORMED AT LIVERPOOL'S ROYAL COURT THEATRE TO RAISE MONEY ...
The Mission: Sands Centre, Carlisle
Live Review by Neil Perry, Sounds, 13 May 1989
The misters of mercy ...
Fields Of The Nephilim: Attractions Fatalist
Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, 20 May 1989
THE THING I most enjoy about Carl McCoy is his refusal to jump through the traditional music industry hoops. ...
Fields Of The Nephilim: Apocalypse Now (or maybe next week)
Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 10 June 1989
Their latest single is about Armageddon and Fields Of The Nephilim mainman Carl McCoy reckons that the end is nigh. Cathi Unsworth listens to his mystical musings and gets a few survival ...
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 13 July 1989
Once postpunk's bad boys, the members of the Cult have found fame with Sonic Temple ...
The Cure On Tour: Mope Rock For The Masses
Interview by Michael Azerrad, St Louis Post Dispatch, 27 August 1989
THINGS DON'T LOOK good. A couple of days after two extraordinary sold-out concerts at Paris' 15,000-seat Bercy Auditorium, The Cure is getting ready to play ...
Interview by Christine Natanael, Metal Mania, September 1989
WHAT DO you get when you cross Frank Zappa, Alice Cooper, Grandpa Munster, Skinny Puppy, The Cramps, Batman, Tarzan, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and a ...
Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Revolution, September 1989
LAST TIME I saw Robert Smith of the Cure, he was lying on a bed of spider webs and being swallowed by and giant gummy ...
The Cure: Searching For The Cure
Report and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 7 September 1989
Can the masters of "mope rock" enjoy life at the top? ...
Overview by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 23 September 1989
It's been the decade of the goth — but, somewhere along the line, the innovation of the Birthday Party, the Banshees and the Sisters gave ...
The Creatures, Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie Sioux: Mellowing of a Banshee
Interview by Lucy O'Brien, The Guardian, 25 October 1989
Lucy O'Brien on Siouxsie Sioux's new Creature comforts and lasting spirit ...
Fields Of The Nephilim: The Nod Corner
Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, 23 December 1989
THE MOMENT IS breathtaking. One minute, he's Nod, drummer of Fields Of The Nephilim, chatting placidly of a pint of Flowers Best. Next minute, he's ...
The Mission: It's For You-Hoo!
Profile and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, Q, February 1990
IN A CRAMPED loft-conversion on the outskirts of Leeds, something of a party atmosphere prevails. Ring pulls are being pulled, Silk Cuts smoulder in ashtrays, ...
Review by Robert Sandall, Q, March 1990
THE GOOD NEWS is that The Mission's third album is easily their best. ...
Peter Murphy: Deep (Beggars Banquet)
Review by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 12 May 1990
PETER MURPHY knows what time it is. He's clocked the hippy-gumbo dancing hordes, seen the shaggy clothes and witnessed the wazzy smiles. He's even checked ...
Peter Murphy: Town & Country Club, London
Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 26 May 1990
IT'S WHEN I burst out laughing and everyone looks at me like I'm insane that I realise what a tragic, inopportune night this is. Just ...
Peter Murphy: Town And Country Club, London
Live Review by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 26 May 1990
"I WAS walking down the high street/When I heard footsteps behind me/And there was a receding blonde goth/In various shades of black and grey/Posing away." ...
Report and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 26 July 1990
Black capes, death fixations, Shelley recitals and an infinite supply of doom and gloom. Caroline Sullivan visits the haunts of the original Gothfathers to see ...
Flesh For Lulu: The Dome, London
Live Review by Nicky Charlish, Melody Maker, 8 August 1990
FROM The intro, 'Slide', onwards, we're into a festival of high-speed, thumpy noise, delivered in a style that's a crazy cross between 'Floodland'-era Sisters Of ...
Gene Loves Jezebel: Astoria, London
Live Review by Nicky Charlish, Melody Maker, 25 August 1990
THAT'S funny! A few seconds ago, I was in Charing Cross Road. Now I'm in Kensington Market. But, of course, there's a simple explanation. This ...
Sisters of Mercy: The Sisters of Mercy: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 24 November 1990
Masterful release ...
Interview by Betty Page, Vox, December 1990
If Disintegration led to just that for self-confessed 'English werewolf in Crawley' Robert Smith, what on earth will happen to him with the release of ...
Alien Sex Fiend: Curse (Phonogram)
Review by Nicky Charlish, Sounds, 8 December 1990
SILENCE at the back there! ...
Sisters of Mercy: The Sisters of Mercy: Leeds University
Live Review by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 23 February 1991
Mission accomplished ...
Fields Of The Nephilim: Graveyard Shifts: Fields Of The Nephilim
Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, 23 March 1991
Does the release of their new live album, Earth Inferno, mark the end of an era for Fields Of The Nephilim? Why does Carl McCoy ...
Sisters Of Mercy: Be Advised – They're No Angels
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 29 March 1991
BACK IN THE early '80s Tony James, former bassist of Generation X, was plotting his next assault on the pop world: a controversial sex-drugs-and-outrage spectacle ...
The Dead Boys: No Compromise, No Regrets
Obituary by Nina Antonia, Spiral Scratch, 11 June 1991
STIV BATORS, a man whose name read like an anagram, managed the rare feat of creative reincarnation, within the span of what was to be ...
Killing Joke: Armageddon Outta Here
Report and Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, 22 June 1991
The millennium is coming and Jaz Coleman is waiting. On the eve of the Joke's latest UK tour, he talks to CAROL CLERK about white ...
All About Eve: Camden Underworld, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 7 September 1991
EVE ANGELICAL ...
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 30 November 1991
IN DIN COUNTRY ...
Sisters of Mercy: Some Girls Wander By Mistake
Review by Robert Sandall, Q, June 1992
"I LIKE to think it was the songs that made this band," Andrew Eldritch writes in the sleevenotes, "I know it wasn't." And as this ...
Review by Mat Snow, Q, July 1992
Was goth really any more than wearing silly clothes and humming funereal dirges? ...
The Mission U.K.: Angst And Ecstacy
Interview by Christine Natanael, Reflex, 27 August 1992
IT'S A GRAY DAY in New York City, and God's pissing on the midday masses as they hustle to their power lunches. The weather matches ...
The Cure: How Did This Get To Be A Superstar?
Profile and Interview by Stuart Maconie, Q, July 1993
Who are you calling laughable, dull, unattractive, doleful, po-faced, lazy and badly attired? He forgot gloomy and morbid, but you get the picture. Despite a ...
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 7 August 1993
GOOD VIOLATIONS ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 11 September 1993
GOSH, DIDN'T we all lose sleep worrying whether Curve were the genuine indie article when they arrived with an almighty belch called 'Ten Little Girls' ...
Review by Mat Snow, Q, October 1993
The Cure are a cult band much as Scientology is a cult religion: their adherents are legion and the degree of cultist identification is intense. ...
Interview by Susan Compo, Spin, November 1993
After nearly 15 years as the pope of mope, the Cure's Robert Smith longs to let his hair down, watch some soccer, and read a ...
The Cure's Simon Gallup (1995)
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages audio, 1995
The Cure's bass player Simon Gallup talks about Lol Tolhurst, about getting married, and about the band's life on the road.
File format: mp3; file size: 49mb, interview length: 51' 04" sound quality: ****
Marilyn Manson: The Afterlife Of Brian
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 30 August 1997
You may think that MARILYN MANSON (or Brian to his mum) is just a spooky goth who smokes human bones and sings about scabby angels ...
Marilyn Manson: Alternative Cult Star
Interview by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 20 September 1997
He's seven-foot tall and rips his stomach to shreds with a half-broken bottle on stage. But, heh, he's still little Brian to his mum. We ...
Marilyn Manson at CMJ Musicfest
Report by Jeff Apter, nyrock.com, October 1997
THERE ARE MANY perceptions of Marilyn Manson. The most common, in no special order, are that he's a baby eater, a Satan worshiper, and a ...
The Cure: American Legion Hall, Hollywood
Live Review by Sara Scribner, Los Angeles Times, 30 October 1997
Cure's Dark Songs of Desire Still Resonate ...
The Cure: Galore: The Singles 1987-1997
Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 1 November 1997
IN AN UNGUARDED moment, Mick Jagger once admitted that there came a point in the mid-'70s – once the Stones had made Exile On Main ...
Marilyn Manson: The Man Who Fell To Earth
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, September 1998
THE ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR is no more. ...
Marilyn Manson: Mechanical Animals (NOTHING) ****
Review by Ian Gittins, Q, November 1998
Return of the Thin White Berk. ...
Marilyn Manson: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 20 December 1998
Satan's little helper ...
Mortiis: "Boy. I'm really nervous!"
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 25 September 1999
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the real Mortiis ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, January 2000
MOCK AT your peril: word oozing from the bat-infested, lightning-flecked towers of the grown-up music press suggests that the year 2000 will spawn a goth ...
Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 11 February 2000
IF LIFE REALLY begins at 40, then pity Robert Smith, a man who has spent more than 20 years ruminating on the sheer hopelessness of ...
Profile and Interview by Chris Campion, Dazed & Confused, September 2000
ANTICHRIST. MESSIAH. Celebrity. Pariah. Marilyn Manson, the celebrity death cult leader everyone loves to hate, is a dark star whether the religious right like it ...
Placebo: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 1 November 2000
IT'S HALLOWEEN, so it's fitting that the evening's main attraction is a petulant succubus wearing a tight purple suit and nail varnish. If you hadn't ...
Review by Ned Raggett, Freaky Trigger, 22 July 2001
… and Willful Withdrawal in a New Summer of Love ...
The Creatures, Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie Sioux: An Interview
Interview by Paul Mathur, This is not Retro, May 2002
I GUESS THE OBVIOUS QUESTION IS WHY ARE THE BANSHEES BACK, AND HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT? ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie and the Banshees: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 13 July 2002
IN 1975, POP'S womankind was still meekly 'Loving You' (it's easy, cos you're beautiful) and 'Standing By Your Man' (and showing the world you love ...
Marilyn Manson: Sympathy For The Devil: Marilyn Manson
Interview by Miles Marshall Lewis, Oneworld, April 2003
BRIAN WARNER took the long, hard road out of hell (Canton, Ohio, to be exact) to emerge in 1994 on Portrait of an American Family ...
Marilyn Manson: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, June 2003
THE CABARET is excellent, of course. You come expecting a hilariously over the top gothic freakshow, choreographed by the ghost of Cecil B. DeMille and ...
Comment by Tom Cox, Observer Music Monthly, September 2003
In part one of an epic investigation into the lost pop tribes of Britain, Tom Cox travels to Leeds to meet fans of magick, Max ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Blender, October 2003
VITAL STATISTICS:SONG: 'Just Like Heaven'Artist: The CureLabel: ElektraPerformers: Robert Smith : guitar/vocals; Porl Thompson - guitar; Lol Tolhurst - keyboards; Simon Gallup – Bass; Boris ...
Live Review by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 4 October 2003
"NOW, IF YOU work in a record store, or you have a degree in Musicology," spits Lux Interior with an exaggerated sneer, "you might file ...
The Cure: Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities – 1978–2001: The Fiction Years
Review by James Hunter, The Village Voice, 25 May 2004
THE CURE'S Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities: 1978–2001: The Fiction Years is titled with the exhaustiveness that can, in every sense, characterize box sets. ...
Live Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 10 October 2004
The Ice Queen thaws. We melt ...
Siouxsie Sioux: 100 Club, London
Live Review by John Doran, Classic Rock, December 2004
Two shows in one week for the iconic 'anti-Blondie' – one a lo-fi hits set, and one with 18-piece orchestra . Hark at her! ...
Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, February 2005
FIVE YEARS. It's a long time by most people's standards, but when such a period passes between albums by Nine Inch Nails, the turbulent electro-noir ...
Nine Inch Nails: Fighting Tooth And Nail
Interview by John Doran, Classic Rock, July 2005
After finally admitting to himself that he was in the merciless grip of alcohol and drug addiction, Trent Reznor (aka Nine Inch Nails) got himself ...
The Alarm, The Birthday Party, Flesh For Lulu, Sisters of Mercy: Goth: Back to the Batcave
Overview by Jenny Valentish, Australian Guitar, October 2005
"WE HATED BEING called goth," muses the impeccably suave Flesh For Lulu frontman Nick Marsh. "If they called you a goth then you couldn't be ...
Placebo: Empress Ballroom, Blackpool
Live Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 9 April 2006
"I WAS CONFUSED by the birds and the bees", the Lilliputian, Luxembourgeois leader of Placebo sings, beneath the gilded plaster of Paris of the 110-year-old ...
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 11 April 2006
A DECADE ON FROM THEIR CHART DEBUT — and almost as long since they were hip — Placebo have a renaissance on their hands. Their ...
The Cramps, The Gun Club, Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds: Kid Congo Powers
Profile and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 14 September 2006
THE LATE 1970s were a time of ignition. Punk rock set a fuse that burned through every aspect of the arts, and the lives of ...
The Horrors, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Sisters of Mercy: Back in Black: The Goth Revival
Report and Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 29 September 2006
THE FAVERSHAM, a pub close to Leeds University, is a brightly decorated bar, popular with lawyers and office workers. But a couple of decades ago ...
Review by James Hunter, The Village Voice, 25 September 2007
ON HER RECENT Out of the Woods, Tracey Thorn, singing about artists who awed her early on, mentions "Bobby D in '63". But she also ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: 20 Minutes To 20 Years: The Banshees' Tale
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Record Collector, November 2007
As editor of legendary fanzine Zigzag, Kris Needs had a front row seat for the explosive rise of Siouxsie & the Banshees. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, April 2008
They came from Northampton, in a hearse. They posed as bats, "improved" 'Ziggy Stardust', and battled malevolent energies within their own band. As another comeback ...
The Cure: Robert Smith: What becomes of the brokenhearted?
Profile by Andy Gill, The Independent, 7 November 2008
From Smashing Pumpkins to Edward Scissorhands, the Cure's Robert Smith has been influencing pop culture for decades. It's just a shame that the band's new ...
Depeche Mode: Universal Truths And Sounds
Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, April 2009
It's all tea and biscuits for Depeche Mode these days, and a trip back to the future ...
The Cramps: Lux Interior, 1946-2009
Obituary by David Hepworth, The Word, April 2009
SOMETIME IN THE mid-'70s, Erick Purkhiser of Stow, Ohio, exchanged his given name for words he found in an automobile catalogue. ...
Marilyn Manson: God Of Fucking About
Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, June 2009
He promised us champagne and caviar, but now he's only capable of delivering cola and crisps. To John Doran, he's become little more than the ...
The Cure: Disintegration (Deluxe Edition)
Review by David Quantick, Uncut, July 2010
Smith & co's America-conquering eighth album. Its brilliance is in its confidence, says David Quantick. ...
Cradle of Filth: Is Dani Filth Suffolk's greatest icon?
Comment by Johnny Sharp, The Guardian, 5 January 2011
When the county's tourist board launched a poll, it didn't count on it being hijacked by Cradle of Filth fans ...
Bauhaus, Peter Murphy: "I'm a myriad of colours": Peter Murphy interviewed
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 26 July 2011
"I duck and I dive and I'm too fast to catch and I'll always be pretty." Peter Murphy discusses Bauhaus, Dali's Car, his new solo ...
Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, July 2012
ROBERT SMITH, Cure keyboard player Roger O'Donnell and I are in a black van — the sort of multi-seat box soccer "moms" ferry their offspring ...
Dead Can Dance: Back From The Grave!
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, December 2012
Resurrected after 16 years – the high priest and priestess of global goth-ambience, Dead Can Dance. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Martin Aston, The Guardian, 10 October 2013
Little was known about Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, the enigmatic founders of celebrated indie label 4AD, until they were tracked down in the US. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, November 2013
A new book, Martin Aston's Facing The Other Way, tells the story of a label that scored just a single number one hit during the ...
Nick Cave: The SICK BAG Song (Canongate)
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Guardian, 28 March 2015
WHEN YOU'VE personally witnessed Nick Cave nodding out on heroin and slowly lowering his head into a candle flame – his mass of dyed black ...
Live Review by David Bennun, The Guardian, 17 November 2015
WHAT A CURIOUS, synthetic experience it is to see Chvrches. Not that there's ever anything amiss with pop feeling synthetic. What makes Chvrches odd is ...
Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan: "Why I don't understand my own band"
Profile and Interview by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 1 June 2017
WHEN NEIL TENNANT of the Pet Shop Boys was the assistant editor of Smash Hits, he made the following observation: ...
Alice Cooper: Alice's biggest shock of all
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 18 November 2017
Forget the guillotine, noose and snakes – the master of the macabre's fans will be stunned by his enduring passion for God, golf and marriage ...
Bauhaus: A post-punk primer on the "founding fathers of Goth"
Retrospective by Martin Aston, The Vinyl Factory, 16 January 2019
BÉLA FERENC Dezső Blaskó, or Bela Lugosi as he is better known, died in 1956, but his reputation and aura not only survive but thrive ...
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