Jack Barron
Between 1982 until 1996, Jack Barron wrote for Sounds, Zig Zag, NME, the Guardian and Volume. In 1998 he wrote features and reviews for Melody Maker.
Other than writing pieces for music magazines, Jack has worked as a TV Director and editor making various television documentaries and children's programmes which have been broadcast on Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV and Discovery.
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Clint Eastwood & General Saint: Bishops Park, Fulham, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 18 September 1982
Fruit for thought ...
Explainer: Man From The Ghetto (Sun Burst SB/LP05)****
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 2 October 1982
SOCA it to me ...
Dennis Brown: Hornsey Town Hall, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 16 October 1982
THE PARANOID inside can't help wonder if there is some kind of conspiracy going on... ...
Michael (Mikey) Smith: Michael Smith: Mi Cyaan Believe It (Island)
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 13 November 1982
Keep on believing ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 20 November 1982
CONTRAST: "Biddy-biddy bong-bong, biddy bong-bong, biddy bong-bong, biddy men. Bong bong, biddy bong-bong, biddy bong-gong, biddy geng, biddah-men ahwooy biddy-men. Ehyaaah!" (Rough translation of intro ...
Gregory Isaacs: Gregorian Rants
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 4 December 1982
The elusive Mr Isaacs tracked down by Jack Barron ...
Culture: University Of London Union, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 11 December 1982
HAVING RUPTURED with cultural brothers Walker and Paley, and with a new album Lion Rock booming out from the city's more select record shops, Joseph ...
Michael (Mikey) Smith: Mikey Smith: Poet and His Roots
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 8 January 1983
Mikey Smith recites to Jack Barron ...
Clint Eastwood & General Saint: Action Stations
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 23 April 1983
JACK BARRON jumps aboard the EASTWOOD AND SAINT express ...
Report by Jack Barron, Sounds, 16 July 1983
Jack Barron meets the toast of the town ...
The Fall: I Don't Know What's In There
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 13 August 1983
"AS A kid I used to be obsessed that like I was reincarnated from the trenches of the First World War. I used to think ...
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 20 August 1983
DATELINE DUBLIN: 3.30am Monday. There will no doubt be some measured reports of U2's home-coming gig. But I really hate measured reports. ...
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 10 September 1983
I WAS STILL trying to figure out what UB40 had done with all the money they'd earned – there just had to be an interesting ...
Chic: Believer (Atlantic Records) *½
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 1984
ANYONE FOR aural necrophilia? Like all dead boring musical activities, there is little mutual satisfaction to be gained here. ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 19 May 1984
Philip Levi chats up Jack Barron ...
New Model Army: Re-Make Re*Model
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 16 June 1984
"IT'S STRANGE, pop music, isn't it? You've got men dressing up as women and women dressing up as men. Don't you think there's something sinister ...
Tina Turner: Private Dancer (Capitol)
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 23 June 1984
AM I the only person who thinks Tina Turner looks, um, more sensual when she's fully clothed rather than parading acres of well preserved flesh? ...
Black Uhuru: International Anthem
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 7 July 1984
SO...WHAT is life? A location and time? Hardly. We could be almost anywhere, but... ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 14 July 1984
"THIS IS really embarrassing, we've come thousands of miles and now this happens," sighed Hugh Masekela looking at the vast blue tent-balloon Espace Balard venue ...
The Skatalites: Return Of The Big Guns (Island White Label)****.5
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 14 July 1984
KA-BOOM. KA-BOOM. Ka-boom. This is where it all began and has now returned to, more or less. ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 21 July 1984
"Sweet as a nut? Just level vibes, seen?" ...
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. ...
Aswad: Rebel Souls (Island)****
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 27 October 1984
GETTING A sense of perspective on Aswad is difficult at the best of times, and it's even worse with the release of this elpee because ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 15 December 1984
HIS BOTTOM lip trembles as he bites his fingernails. Beneath the familiar lazy flop of a frizzy blond fringe, his eyes are filmed with liquid. ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 5 January 1985
HOT TOWN, it's summer in the city. Basing Street, West London to be exact, the pleasure dome of ZTT records. The Art Of Noise have ...
Smiley Culture & Bobby Boom: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 5 January 1985
THE INTERPRETER of reggae mirth who says he MCs not for treasure but for pleasure inverted frowns to dental crowns, sore feet to blue beat, ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 19 January 1985
JERRY DAMMERS cut himself with a razor this morning. A short tear of paper covers the wound just below his equally brief right sideburn. ...
Profile and Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 29 January 1985
"LAYDEEZ AND gentlemen, will you please take your seats for Dick Whittington now, the show starts in five minutes," wheezes a voice from the Tannoy ...
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 9 February 1985
DUB CRAWL ...
New Model Army: Between the Wars
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 27 April 1985
Are New Model Army really as ugly as they say? Jack Barron flutters his eyes and confesses. ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 4 May 1985
"HEY! LOOK at this weird architecture," enthuses Peter Principle, surveying the sight he's just stumbled across by opening the curtain in my hotel bedroom. I ...
Dire Straits: Brothers In Arms (Vertigo)
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 18 May 1985
ON TWO consecutive nights last week, I sat in a park in Tel Aviv and sometimes winced as I watched Dire Straits play. What amazed ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 1 June 1985
THE ONLY kind of sex I can imagine performing to the exquisite, perfumed garden noise of Rain Parade is tender. Maybe this is why Matt ...
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 15 June 1985
Most wanted man Brute Springsteen sweats it out in his rock 'n' roll cell. Jack Barron swallows the key ...
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 29 June 1985
"JESUS WEPT," from St Mark's Gospel is, I'm assured, the shortest verse in The Bible. That his Divinity did so over this event when 40,000 people decamped ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 27 July 1985
All aboard The Blasters' American Express, en route to the heartland of rock 'n' roll '85 style. "That'll do nicely," exclaims an impressed Jack Barron ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 7 September 1985
SATAN IN a shitlake, I'm here on serious medical business and I've left the pliers on the anvil at home after cuffing the slave-girls. ...
The Woodentops: Wag Club, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 14 September 1985
PLENTY SMILES and plenty frowns, the Woodentops were dancing on the feet of salesmen and women tonight, stubbing their toes but keeping their shoes clean ...
The Jesus & Mary Chain: Psychocandy (Blanco Y Negro BYN7 pre-release tape)*****
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 2 November 1985
CHRIST! THE crucifixion of preconceptions on the Calvary of pop. ...
Crime & The City Solution: Crime and Punishment
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 9 November 1985
"I KNOW THE worst joke I've heard all week," begins Harry Howard, cheerfully. Crime's bass player is about to provide me with a solution to ...
Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Abbey Road Studio, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 4 January 1986
SPUT THE DOGS ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 18 January 1986
Kicking and screaming into '86 against injustices to the oppressed and themselves come THE REDSKINS. JACK BARRON explores the left side of their collective brain ...
Jeffrey Lee Pierce: impurely an entertainer
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 25 January 1986
JEFFREY LEE PIERCE is a nice man when he's sober but when he's got three fingers in his mouth he's a scream. JACK BARRON held ...
Augustus Pablo: Rising Sun (Greensleeves GREL 90)***⅝
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 29 March 1986
IN THE Chinese puzzle box of sound that comprises reggae's radiological dubstream, there are two types of artist: Augustus Pablo and The Rest. ...
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 12 April 1986
THE IMPERFECT kiss. Tonight I should have stayed at home and played with my pleasure zone. ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 7 June 1986
Defender of the Filth. Talking dirty or sex therapy? JACK BARRON gets his beret unscrewed by New York's first lady of sleaze, LYDIA LUNCH. ...
Queen: A Kind Of Magic (EMI) **½
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 7 June 1986
TO DISMISS this out of hand would be as thoughtless as giving a cigarette to a man dying of cancer. There must be something to ...
George Clinton: Electric Spankatizer Yeah
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 1 August 1986
SPACE: THE FINAL FRONTIER OR THE GAP BETWEEN GREEN POINTY EARS? ...
Paul Simon: Graceland (Warner Brothers)***
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 6 September 1986
GRACE UNDER PRESSURE ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 20 September 1986
As the RUN DMC tidal wave breaks over the British coastline and the country reels to its knees, it's maybe time to ponder the principles ...
Cameo: Word Up! (Phonogram/Club Records)***2/3
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 11 October 1986
WORDS UPSIDEDOWN: Because you're not the only one whose heart has been broken and Blackmon's approach will serve to remind you of this – and ...
Iron Maiden: Apollo Theatre, Oxford
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 18 October 1986
ON THE opening night of the British leg of their world tour to promote an album called Somewhere In Time, Iron Maiden play like pirates, ...
The Pretenders: Get Close (WEA)***
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 25 October 1986
JUST LIKE nectar poured over old scars, one of rock's most distinctive vocalists, Chrissie Hynde, comes out of hibernation with a miasma of sentimentality, cynicism ...
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 15 November 1986
IF SUCCESS in the pop game is partly dependent on timing, then Furniture must be one of the unluckiest groups I've come across. After years ...
Elvis Costello: The Royalty Theatre, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 29 November 1986
CROCODILE SMILES ...
Pop Will Eat Itself: Would You Let Your Sister Date One Of These Guys?
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 6 December 1986
Brash, wild and loudmouthed, POP WILL EAT ITSELF may be the rock noise of 1986 but are they ideologically sound? JACK BARRON looks behind their ...
Sound Of Silence: The Rise Of The Compact Disc
Report by Jack Barron, Sounds, 13 December 1986
You don't have to be a classical fanatic or yuppie stadium rock lover to appreciate compact disc – the quiet revolution has hit the indie ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 17 January 1987
No other group creates such extreme reactions as SWANS. For some, they are a bunch of American charlatans making the worst noise in the world; ...
Fats Comet, Mark Stewart, Tackhead: Fats Comet, Tackhead, Mark Stewart: Astoria, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 16 May 1987
AS MARK Stewart, seven foot of laconicism, sang quoting Burroughs, tonight was the time to "Play it all, play it all, play it all back. ...
The Beastie Boys: Burden of the Beasties
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, The Guardian, 23 May 1987
WHEN THE Beastie Boys step on stage in Brixton tonight at the start of their British tour everyone – the media, authorities, and fans alike ...
The Beastie Boys: Keep Taking The Tabloids
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, James Brown, Sounds, 23 May 1987
Must they keep flinging this filth at our pop kids? No, not the brilliant BEASTIE BOYS but the British national press attempting to stir up ...
Cookie Crew, Schoolly D, The Three Wise Men: Schoolly D: University Of Essex, Colchester
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 30 May 1987
ANOTHER SATURDAY night. The Cookie Crew have already pushed sensuality into the cause of women MCs, Three Wise Men have re-freshed us with the politics ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 6 June 1987
Ten years down the road and thousands of gigs on, BAD BRAINS are still chasing the goal of a mass audience. JACK BARRON measures their ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 6 June 1987
Or timeless as ever? Only time will tell, say WIRE, back with An Ideal Copy and not a hint of retrogression anywhere. Seconds clocked by ...
The Replacements: Replacing Lost Energy
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 27 June 1987
For a group whose songs are so openly confessional, THE REPLACEMENTS' public image remains a closed book. JACK BARRON attempts to penetrate the facade of the Minneapolis boogie ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 11 July 1987
More than merely another hip hop outfit, Manhattan's MANTRONIX are breaking new ground with their brand of hardcore confusion. JACK BARRON meets CURTIS "MANTRONIK" KAHLEEL ...
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 18 July 1987
THE 'OFFICIAL bootleg' is an interesting development in deception. Several have already sneaked out from beneath the Mute umbrella but this pair, including Head Of ...
Einstürzende Neubauten: Five On The Open Ended Richter Scale (Some Bizzare BART 332/CD)*****
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 18 July 1987
GOOD VIBRATIONS ...
Depeche Mode: The Dire Straits Of The Synth Generation?
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 5 September 1987
THE SUN RISES just after five in the morning. As a freshly finished glitter-mix booms, "Everyone's looking for a reason to live/If you're looking for ...
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 5 September 1987
'BRANES 'N' BRAWN ...
Einstürzende Neubauten, Showaddywaddy: Kilburn National, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 19 September 1987
SAY WADD? ...
Cameo: Empire Pool Wembley, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 10 October 1987
TRAPPED BY THEIR UNDERPANTS ...
Public Image Ltd: John Lydon: I Cry Alone
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 10 October 1987
DAY-GLO PINK mini-dreads erupt from his scalp like antennae made of candyfloss. Iceberg blue eyes stare from cigarette ash skin. A smirk. A belch of ...
Guns N' Roses: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 17 October 1987
"THIS SONG is my favourite," screams part-man-mostly-dog guitarist Slash, Guns N'Roses' mascot pimple. "It's for all you thrashers out there and it's dedicated to BLOW-jobs ...
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 12 December 1987
With A R Kane and Dinosaur Jr, Croydon noiseniks LOOP are busy reviving indie white rock fortunes. JACK BARRON asks how long before these bands ...
The Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (EMI America Import LP only)
Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 16 January 1988
EXPLODING PARTY PEPPERS ...
Spoonie Gee: The Wag Club, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 30 January 1988
UNDER PLAIN RAPPING ...
The Mighty Lemon Drops: World Without End (Chrysalis/Blue Guitar LP/cassette/CD)
Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 13 February 1988
WITHOUT BEING patronising I kind of feel sorry for this lot. Anybody who was fortunate enough to be involved in C86 — the 'movement' that ...
Gladys Knight: All Our Love (MCA)
Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 27 February 1988
SINCE WINNING the Ted Mack Amateur Hour TV show at the age of eight and picking up $2000 for her rendition of Nat 'King' Cole's ...
Rick Rubin: The Devil's Disciple
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 16 April 1988
Beelzebub or Midas? Def Jam supremo RICK RUBIN walks the fine line between brilliance and stupidity. JACK BARRON joins him on the tightrope and enters ...
James Blood Ulmer: Pied Bull, Islington, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 30 April 1988
DRUNK ON BLOOD ...
Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 30 April 1988
LOVE AND BULLETS ...
Public Enemy: Too Black Too Strong
Interview by Jack Barron, James Brown, New Musical Express, 21 May 1988
PUBLIC ENEMY — simply the most creative rappers around? Or a dangerous game with the politics of race? JAMES BROWN and JACK BARRON lay it ...
Gary Glitter, The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu: The JAMS: Wizards of Scam
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 25 June 1988
While hundreds of hippies besieged Stonehenge, three mysterious cloaked figures slipped through the security net to pay their own strange homage to the Summer Solstice. ...
Bros: "Bros Not Dross" Shock: Bros: City Hall, Sheffield
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 2 July 1988
WHAT IS IT about Bros? ...
Nick Cave, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nick Cave: The Needle And The Damage Done
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 13 August 1988
NICK CAVE – the voice of desperation; singer, writer, actor, junkie! JACK BARRON, branded by the Bad Seed a "filthy little prick", gets to grips ...
The Jungle Brothers: Burning Bright
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 13 August 1988
Fearing the worst JACK BARRON penetrated the steaming undergrowth of New York to reach THE JUNGLE BROTHERS and finds not red-eyed monsters but fresh-faced missionaries. ...
Ciccone Youth: Youth Programming (Bastards)
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 10 September 1988
THE LAST THING I remember before unconsciousness descended like a gun-butt to the head was Thurston Moore's evil grin and his instruction, "Relax, nothing bad ...
The Jungle Brothers: Zap Club, Brighton
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 17 September 1988
BUNGLE BROTHERS ...
EPMD, Stetsasonic: Stetsasonic, EPMD: International 2, Manchester
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 1 October 1988
SONIC BOOM BOYS ...
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 15 October 1988
LONDON BRIDGE is falling down, Big Ben has struck one minute to midnight and had his hand's burned. And all is not well in this ...
The Wedding Present: Town And Country Club, London
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 20 October 1988
DAVID GEDGE, six foot plus of gangly manhood in a vile paisley shirt, steps through the balloon infested stage and grabs the microphone with a ...
U2: 'In Ireland People Are Scared of Success...'
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 20 October 1988
THE FULFILLMENT of any U2 project will always set tongues a-wagging in Dublin. Aside from being one of the country's major industries, the quartet are ...
My Bloody Valentine: Dream Demons
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 10 December 1988
THE JOURNALIST, immobilized by a massive student demonstration in Central London, is late. A couple of miles up the road in a Kentish Town bar ...
The Cold Crush Brothers: Cold Crush Brothers: Troopers (B-Boy/Westside LP/Cassette/CD)
Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 17 December 1988
SQUASHED OFF in the opposite direction are the Brothers. While hip hop in general is surfing on a newfound musical sophistication, with crews like The ...
Ice-T and the Rhyme Syndicate: The Pink Toothbrush, Rayleigh
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 11 February 1989
GUNS AND BOZOS ...
The Beastie Boys, Slayer: Def Jam: Def On The Rocks?
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 11 March 1989
Formerly the most formidable crossover label in existence, DEF JAM has been out of the limelight since a split in the ranks saw Rick Rubin ...
The Stone Roses: Stone Roses: Stone Roses (Silvertone)
Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 29 April 1989
THIS IS Rain Parade at ease after the storm. This is Dream Syndicate going through a recurring nightmare. This is an aural Big Mac laced ...
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 20 May 1989
HOUSE SEARCH ...
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 3 June 1989
NENEH CHERRY is a different style of woman, a popstar determined to be real, not plastic, positive and above all herself. With her single 'Manchild' ...
The Stone Roses: Bliss This House
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 10 June 1989
"THE BAND? Sorry mate, they've just left. Urgent business." Outside Walsall's Junction 10 Club, the Stone Roses' tour van is disappearing around the corner when ...
Chaka Khan, D Mob: D Mob: Mixing With The Mob
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 24 June 1989
From DJ to A&R man, to the mixmaster behind D MOB's summer of '88 hit 'We Call It Acieed', DANNY D has moved on to ...
Boogie Down Productions, KRS-One: KRS-1: We Are 1
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 22 July 1989
Metaphysics... conspiracy theories...the harmony of the Universe...and YOU thought KRS-1 was just a hot rapper! JACK BARRON gets philosophical with the boss of Boogie Down. ...
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 29 July 1989
THE TRAIN TO Rugby rattles down the track. On my lap lies an inch-thick collection of press on Spacemen 3. One quote in particular leaps ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 5 August 1989
NEON NIGHT, LA. Clad in leather and flashing skull'n'dagger tattoos, Chris Holmes of WASP — the Peter Sutcliffe of heavy metal — is lounging on ...
Boy's Own Party: East Grinstead
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 2 September 1989
BY THE time we got to Grinstead we were... oops! Wrong summer of love...No wallowing in mud here, no bad acid, no teds and no ...
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 2 September 1989
BY THE time we got to Grinstead we were...oops! Wrong summer of love...No wallowing in mud here, no bad acid, no teds and no people ...
Happy Mondays: Thieves Like Us (and so do the police)
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 16 September 1989
Just back from their first trip (sic) into the Satan-worshippin' heart of Amerika, HAPPY MONDAYS tell JACK BARRON how they proved more than a match ...
Inner City: Paradise Postponed
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 23 September 1989
I CAME TO see 'Paradise'. I heard it, looked at it, sniffed it, and thought that I was in Kentish Town. In short, I was ...
Report by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 30 September 1989
This week NME devotes its Dance/Club page to a cool and unsensational look at the drug Ecstasy. Report by JACK BARRON ...
Report by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 25 November 1989
In search of Die Neue Deutsche Tanz (New German Dance) JACK BARRON travelled to Berlin to meet the artists behind the Teutonic Beats label — ...
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 2 December 1989
I FIRST meet novelist Trevor Miller at 5am outside a London rave called Method Air after a night of dancing so manic and intense it ...
The Beloved: They Wanna Be Loved
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 27 January 1990
THE BELOVED may have started life as dodgy New Order copyists with that ubiquitous Peel session under their studded leather belts, but now they're Dance ...
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 10 February 1990
Rave promoters gathered with Dance fans in London's Trafalgar Square last week to protest against proposed legislation to outlaw all-night parties. JACK BARRON joined the ...
Happy Mondays: Homage to Catatonia
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 31 March 1990
It's just another manic HAPPY MONDAYS, as the Manc scuzz bags-made-good wreak havoc in a nab-it-all frenzy through Europe on their way back to a ...
Live Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 14 July 1990
IBIZA THE ACTION ...
Anthrax: Persistence Of Time (Island LP/Cassette/CD)
Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 1 September 1990
TICK TOCK, tick tock begins this album. Predictable or what? Then the bowels of the earth open up and you are farted via geetars and ...
KISS 100 FM: The Embrace Is On
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 1 September 1990
WHEN KISS 100 FM starts broadcasting legally on September 1, sending the freshest of dancebeats into the ether around London, it will be the final ...
Pop Will Eat Itself: Canoe Dig It?
Report by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 6 October 1990
All Hands on Dick as Dave 'Chippolata' Harper of RCA goes canoeing with Pop Will Eat Itself done up in rubber in downtown Staines, home ...
Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 1 December 1990
"Sometimes a wind blows/And the mysteries of love come clear" – 'Mysteries Of Love', Julee Cruise ...
S'Express: S'exual Intercourse
Interview by Jack Barron, Record Mirror, 30 March 1991
Having learnt to expect the unexpected from S'EXPRESS it comes as no surprise to hear that Mark Moore and his Amazonian partner Sonique have covered ...
Andrew Weatherall: Rimini: Let's Take a Trip!
Report by Jack Barron, i-D, September 1991
Damned by the Pope as the "most debauched area in Italy", Rimini is fast becoming a Euro-clubber's hedonist mecca. And when hundreds of Brits touched ...
David Byrne, Morcheeba: Morcheeba: Calm before the storm
Interview by Jack Barron, Vox, April 1998
They were quietly successful with their dark, hip-hop textures and Skye-scraping vocals. Now, with their genre-defying second LP, Big Calm, MORCHEEBA are quietly heading for ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jack Barron, Melody Maker, 13 March 1999
It was the scene that produced some of the best bands the world had ever seen. Now, with the Happy Mondays reforming end The Stone ...
Happy Mondays: 192-Hour Party People
Report and Interview by Jack Barron, Melody Maker, 15 May 1999
The Kings of hedonism HAPPY MONDAYS have just completed their triumphant eight-date comeback tour. We joined them on the road to hear about their slightly ...
Gong: The Gong Remains The Same
Retrospective and Interview by Jack Barron, Record Collector, October 2010
Jack Barron celebrates the 40-year celestial trip of "Europe's Grateful Dead". ...
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