Jim Arundel
Jim Arundel, aka Jim Irvin, was the leader and singer with Furniture before becoming a writer and editor with Melody Maker.
24 articles
List of articles in the library
Massive Attack: Massive: Blue Lines (Circa)
Review by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 30 March 1991
RHAPSODY IN BLUE ...
The Real Milli Vanilli: The Moment Of Truth (Chrysalis)
Review by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 18 May 1991
QUICK, RESERVE me a large box with a photo and a pun! ...
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 20 July 1991
Into the dressing room of the Manchester International comes a figure in tight yellow tartan flares. "The chicks love these strides, man. Ha ha. Anyone ...
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 20 July 1991
LFO are a perfect example of the kind of thing that makes fogeys furious. They hit the charts from nowhere while still in their teens, ...
Spiritualized: Young, Gifted and Tongue-Tied
Interview by Jim Arundel, Sally Margaret Joy, Melody Maker, 17 August 1991
JASON PIERCE is the man who makes Marcel Marceau seem positively gobby. You'd get more anecdotes out of a house-brick, they told us as we ...
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 26 October 1991
Stereolab are onstage. There are seven of them tonight; five male (two guitars, bass, drums and keyboard) and two female (singing). They are supporting, so ...
William Orbit/Bassomatic: Inner Space
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 4 January 1992
It's four in the afternoon, which is a bit early in the day for William Orbit, especially as he awoke with a migraine. ...
PJ Harvey: Sex and Bile and Rock and Roll
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 8 February 1992
IT'S SUNDAY AFTERNOON, grey and bitter and it looks like rain. Your flatmate, Lisa, and her gangly boyfriend, Ben, are in her room. They're burning ...
Massive Attack: Wheeling In The Years
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 22 February 1992
BRITAIN IS CRAP, we decide over lunch in a Bristol restaurant where we're waiting for Massive Attack. The food is cold, the service is virtually ...
Lou Reed: The Velvet Undertaker: Lou Reed at the Palace Theatre, Manchester
Live Review by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 28 March 1992
A CURSORY listen to Lou's latest, Magic And Loss, and you'd be forgiven for thinking that Tragic Old Toss might have been a better title. ...
Jane Siberry: Rhyme and Seasons
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 9 May 1992
"It's not art, it's a power struggle. It captures me and I capture it back," says Jane Siberry at the start of one of her, ...
Review by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 9 May 1992
PURE POP FOR NOW PEOPLE ...
Arrested Development: 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of... (Cooltempo)
Review by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 23 May 1992
IMPOUND WE TRUST ...
Buffalo Tom, Pavement, Sebadoh: Buffalo Tom/Pavement/Sebadoh: The Cattle Club, Sacramento
Live Review by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 13 June 1992
ERIC IS STRANDED alone onstage behind his drum kit. Sebadoh have been announced but it's clear that the rest of the band aren't even in ...
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 4 July 1992
Tanya Donnelly and I have met before. She was a nervous, skittish platinum blonde then who kept leaving the room to be ill, clutching her ...
Bark Psychosis: Ghosts In The Machine
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 26 September 1992
0 minutes 01 seconds 'Scum' begins. ...
Saint Etienne: St Etienne: Let's Be Avenue!
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 17 October 1992
I wanted to talk to St Etienne because I don't like their records as much as everyone else seems to. I don't believe that they're ...
Pavement: Surreally Saying Something
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 20 March 1993
In America, pavement don't seem any more surreal than drive-in burger joints, gun-toting grocers and Manhattan cable TV. ...
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 16 October 1993
At the open air theatre on the THE sun-blasted campus of San Diego State University, the golden-limbed teens in the box-fresh sneakers and blue and ...
Marvin Gaye: Here, My Dear (Motown)
Review by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 1 December 1993
ALMOST SILENTLY, Motown have finally issued this all-but-forgotten masterpiece on CD. ...
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 29 January 1994
At last count Tricky owes me two stereos and an eardrum. Yup, when the bassline to 'Aftermath' thunders into your life your woofers are history, ...
Nirvana: Kurt Cobain 1967-1994
Obituary by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 16 April 1994
In Bloom — The Musical Legacy of Kurt Cobain ...
Tindersticks: Amsterdam (This Way Up WAY3299 9 tks/45 mins/£5/No MC)
Review by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 21 May 1994
PLAYED AT Zane-bothering volume in the Review Room, it's almost like being there. Amsterdam, last February 8, I mean; dope smoke up your nose, sticky ...
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