Ian Winwood
Ian is a music journalist of almost 30 years' standing. Over the course of an imbalanced career, his work has appeared in The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Kerrang!, Rolling Stone, Q, MOJO, Revolver, The Daily Mirror, NME, and more. He is the author of three books, while his fourth will be published by Faber & Faber in 2022. He lives in Camden Town with his fiancée and their two cats. A proud citizen of the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire, for his sins he supports Barnsley Football Club.
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Snake River Conspiracy: Tobey Torres: Celebrity Skin
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 25 November 2000
Snake River Conspiracy singer Tobey Torres is a self-confessed attention seeker who loves life in the spotlight. But then a career in "exotic dancing" will ...
Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 24 March 2001
Just Push Eject: Boston's Stadium rock legends slip up ...
Papa Roach: Oi! We want a word…
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 14 April 2001
With album sales of three million behind them, life is peachy for Papa Roach right now. Or it would be if they hadn't just got ...
Bad Religion: The Process of Belief
Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 19 January 2002
Bad Religion reform for belief-affirming 12th album ...
Live Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 19 January 2002
The Nu Testament: P.O.D. convert London town ...
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 19 January 2002
On the long, straight drive from Los Angeles airport, down a curving freeway, past oil wells and gas stations, diners and office supply stores, onto ...
Profile and Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 26 January 2002
Four men from northern Sweden are giving The Hives a run for their money in the incendiary rock 'n' roll stakes. But selling records is ...
Foo Fighters: Overdoses. Courtney Love. The Pressure of recording a new album.
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 30 March 2002
The last 12 months haven't been easy. But Foo Fighters mainman Dave Grohl says that he's happier than ever… ...
Lemmy and Keith Allen: Grumpy Old Men
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 27 April 2002
Q: What do you get if you bring together two old school frinds with a reputation for raising hell? A: Lots of booze, lots of swearing ...
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 29 June 2002
With their third album, The Remote Part, Idlewild’s time has arrived. Roddy Woomble will reflect upon this once he’s revealed the secrets of serving milk… ...
Queens of the Stone Age: Mean Fiddler, London
Live Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 6 July 2002
THERE ARE people everywhere. Crowded at the front of the stage, clogging the bar, hanging on the stair rails, queuing for the toilets. The room ...
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 13 July 2002
For the past nine weeks, Green Day have been blasting across America on the Pop Disaster tour… Their mission: "To reclaim our throne as the most ...
Live Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 20 July 2002
OUTSIDE THE Astoria, on the Charing Cross Road, "Filthy Phil The Preacher" is holding a Bible and a broken megaphone. ...
Guns N' Roses: London Arena, London
Live Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 7 September 2002
AS THE ALLOTTED showtime of 9pm approaches, it's quite something to think about what might happen here if Axl Rose doesn't show up. ...
Murderdolls, Slipknot: Joey Jordison: Parallel Lives
Profile and Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 28 September 2002
In Slipknot, Joey Jordison gets to rage. In the Murderdolls, he gets to rock. In both, he shits in public… ...
Sum 41: Does This Look Infected?
Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 23 November 2002
Ill Communication: Canadian punkers return with superior second record. ...
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 8 November 2003
Hundred Reasons make terrible rock stars. They do, however, make fantastic rock albums. This despite being crippled by panic attacks, chronic geekyness and rampant alcohol ...
Foo Fighters: "Us or Nirvana? I'm prouder of us!"
Interview by Ian Winwood, New Musical Express, May 2005
DAVE GROHL IS SITTING in a spacious room with his band the Foo Fighters. They're seated in a ragged semi-circle, and at the moment the ...
Nickelback: My five-year feud with Nickelback
Essay by Ian Winwood, The Guardian, 5 March 2008
The band sent me flowers for my funeral, then challenged me to a fight. None of it caused me as much pain as their music. ...
The Astoria: Share your beer-stained memories
Report by Ian Winwood, The Guardian, 13 January 2009
YOU CAN ALWAYS tell when a gig at the Astoria has just finished because you'll be greeted with the sight of 2,000 people spilling out ...
Review by Ian Winwood, bbc.co.uk, 1 October 2012
Intergalactic rockers return with a typically outlandish sixth album. ...
Report and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 1 July 2019
Playing with fire ...
Tool's Fear Inoculum is finally here: why did it take so long?
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 30 August 2019
EARLIER THIS MONTH, Tool joined the modern world. After manning the virtual-picket line since 2001, the Californian cult rock quartet finally relented and allowed their ...
Billy Bragg interview: "I can't watch Question Time anymore — it's like the Coliseum"
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2019
ON THE SONG 'Old Clash Fan Fight Song', a bash-em-out deep cut from the Fight Songs album of 2011, Billy Bragg sings of "a mate ...
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 14 October 2019
IN 2001, WILCO fired the first shot in a war against an industry that had done them wrong. When Reprise Records rejected their fourth album, ...
Sex Pistols, The Stranglers: The true punk confessions of Stuart Pearce
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 6 November 2019
ON THE MORNING of the 23rd of June 1996, Stuart Pearce was the most famous person in the country. The previous afternoon, England had beaten ...
Slayer: A requiem for Slayer: The poignant, pulverising end of "the band that terrorised the world"
Report by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 29 November 2019
AT 23:00 Pacific Coast Time on Saturday 30th November, the world of metal will enter a period of mourning. At this time, onstage at the ...
Tal Wilkenfeld: Queen of the Bass: Why Tal Wilkenfeld is every rock star's secret weapon
Profile and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 16 December 2019
Adored by Prince, Jeff Beck and the Who, thirtysomething jazz prodigy Tal Wilkenfeld is one of the most in-demand musicians in the world. And it's ...
Rush didn't chase fame, hits or groupies — yet there will never be a better rock band
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 14 January 2020
SUCH WAS the secret appeal of Rush that in the summer of 2008 the band's three members were invited onto American television for only the ...
Aerosmith: How Aerosmith are still rocking after 49 years: "We did drugs, drugs - and more drugs"
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 28 January 2020
IN THE AUTUMN of 1972, Aerosmith's Joey Kramer was walking in the group's adopted home-city of Boston. With work finished on the quintet's eponymous debut ...
Marc Almond: "The Royal Family are the one continuous thread that holds Britain together"
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 13 February 2020
The non-stop Soft Cell singer on his confrontational past, Twitter troubles, and why he doesn't mind being part of "the establishment". ...
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 18 February 2020
TONIGHT, THE 02 Arena in London will host the 40th edition of the BRIT Awards. Presented by Jack Whitehall and featuring appearances from Rod Stewart ...
Ice-T: "I don't hate cops – I hate racists"
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 13 March 2020
ON SEPTEMBER 30th, 1992, Ice-T performed a concert with his metal band Body Count at the Jack Adams Stadium in San Diego. On a bill ...
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 27 March 2020
IT IS ALMOST eight years since the video clip for 'Don't Give Up' first appeared on YouTube. Written and sung by Peter Gabriel, and featuring ...
Guide by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 22 April 2020
LAST WEEK, A STORY appeared in the New York Times that predicted that live music would not return to the world's stages until the autumn ...
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 24 April 2020
ONE OF MY favourite memories of a life spent loitering in the company of musicians is of the time the Beastie Boys danced for me. ...
The Scorpions: Can a power ballad change the world?
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 20 May 2020
A hit podcast investigates the theory that the German rockers' global smash was written by the CIA. But the truth is even more incredible. ...
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 3 June 2020
IN THE SUMMER of 1981, Paul Simon received a call from the Long Island concert promoter Ron Delsener. The 44-year-old Tri-State impresario was speaking on ...
Paul Simon: How Graceland saved Paul Simon — and offended the anti-apartheid world
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 10 June 2020
Forged in South Africa, the 1986 masterpiece drew accusations of 'cultural appropriation', offence and theft. What were Simon's intentions? ...
Lamb of God: Metal's moral backbone: the uncompromising, righteous rise of Lamb Of God
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 23 June 2020
AS A YOUNGER man, D. Randall Blythe conducted social experiments with bleach. As jocks in passing cars screamed insults, the singer with the metal band ...
Comment by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 8 July 2020
IN THE FIRST decade of the 21st Century, the British rock magazine Kerrang! ran a small weekly item called "Stimulants". Secreted away at the bottom ...
Public Enemy: Chuck D: "The presidency aged Obama – what will it do to Biden?"
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 13 July 2020
The hip-hop pioneer talks about the ongoing protests in America, the forthcoming presidential election and how to face down the KKK. ...
Def Leppard: "We never wanted to smoke weed and stick two fingers up to The Man"
Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 21 July 2020
ON THE FIRST day of December 1987, Def Leppard arrived for a concert at the Tacoma Dome in Washington state. Embarked on the initial North ...
Review by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 29 July 2020
AT FOUR PM on Tuesday 28th July, the English singer Frank Turner leans over a table in a small room in South West London and ...
Peter Gabriel, Genesis: The shambolic Genesis reunion that saved Peter Gabriel from financial ruin
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 6 August 2020
Womad crippled Peter Gabriel, so his former bandmates offered to keep the bailiffs away. If only they could remember how to play together… ...
Biffy Clyro: "We wanted to be the opposite of Oasis"
Profile and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 19 August 2020
IN THE AUTUMN of 2004, Biffy Clyro offered me a job as a roadie. It was an unpaid short-term position that consisted of just one ...
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 16 October 2020
IN THE SUMMER of 1987, Mötley Crüe embarked on a tour of the largest indoors venues in North America. Travelling aboard a private jet, the ...
James Taylor: "I took legal heroin – it's the safest way to be an addict"
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 7 December 2020
ON THE AFTERNOON of 7th December 1980, James Taylor was accosted by a stranger who knew his name. As the singer-songwriter battled his way home ...
Chumbawamba: How 'Tubthumping' shook the world
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 15 February 2021
IN 1997, OUT OF NOWHERE the English anarchist punk band Chumbawamba sold more than five million albums. In attaining triple-platinum status, in the United States ...
Judas Priest's Rob Halford on booing Thatcher and those "death pact" accusations
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 26 October 2021
The heavy-metal singer, now 70, talks about "subliminal messaging" and why even arteries rupturing on stage can't bring his band down ...
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 26 November 2021
The revered keyboardist saved Let It Be and put his fingerprints on countless rock classics. But he kept his true self hidden to the end. ...
Alice Cooper, Lemmy: A Walk on the Wild Side of Sunset: Remembering Lemmy and the Hollywood Vampires
Book Excerpt by Ian Winwood, 'Bodies' (Faber & Faber), April 2022
This is an excerpt from Ian's new book Bodies: Life and Death in Music, published by Faber on April 21. ...
Metallica: How Metallica's 'Master of Puppets' turned rock upside down
Report by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 8 July 2022
The feral, ferocious anthem turned Metallica from noisy upstarts into global stars. And now, thanks to Stranger Things, it's happening again. ...
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