Kit Aiken
A pseudonym for Chris Ingham.
29 articles
List of articles in the library
Ben Folds Five: Interview with Ben Folds (December 1997)
Interview by Kit Aiken, extracted in Uncut (July 1999), 1997
KA: What's on this new compilation (Naked Baby Photos) on Caroline? ...
Godley & Creme: Kevin Godley on Consequences
Interview by Kit Aiken, unpublished, 15 December 1997
NOTE: Unedited text of an interview for the piece that appeared in the March 1988 issue of Uncut. * ...
Godley & Creme: Godley And Creme: Consequences (Mercury)
Retrospective and Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, March 1998
KEVIN Godley and Lol Creme were the edgier, brighter half of the astoundingly fertile smart-pop quartet that was 10cc, 1973-1976. They were film-obsessed hipster pasticheurs, ...
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, April 1998
SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL movies (La Passione) and life threatening illnesses (collapsed colon and peritonitis) out of the way, Chris Rea is back making music like nothing has ...
Bernard Butler: People Move On
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, May 1998
Ex-Suede/McAlmont & Butler guitarist's solo debut ...
Julian Lennon, Sean Lennon: Julian Lennon: Photograph Smile; Sean Lennon: Into The Sun
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, June 1998
IT'S HARD ENOUGH for musicians to get out from under the shadows of the giants, but if your father was one of the most loved, ...
Tori Amos: From The Choirgirl Hotel (East West)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, June 1998
Fourth album from singer/songwriter with a fan base of two million. ...
Genesis: Archive 1967-75 (Virgin)
Review and Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, September 1998
4CD box mainly featuring the Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford incarnation of seminal progressive band with live cuts, a rare ...
XTC: Transistor Blast: The Best Of The BBC Sessions
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, December 1998
FOUR-CD set of BBC sessions 1977-89 and In Concert 1978/9 ...
Alexis Korner: Bootleg Him (1973)
Sleeve notes by Kit Aiken, Castle, 1999
Its hard to overstate Alexis Korners contribution to the development of British popular music. His position as a tirelessly driven champion of The Blues in ...
Sleeve notes by Kit Aiken, Castle, 1999
THE Körners were an Austrian Jewish family who escaped war-torn Europe to settle in London. Youngest son Alexis, having spent much time away from his ...
Frank Sinatra: The Capitol Years (Capitol)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, January 1999
Box set featuring all twenty Capitol albums 1953-61 plus rarities disc ...
Review and Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, February 1999
TO ANYONE growing up through the punk era, Yes were the ultimate enemy. In those primitive cool days, laser shows, flowing locks, portentous mysticism, flamboyant ...
Belle and Sebastian: Tigermilk (Jeepster)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, August 1999
Legendary debut by elusive Glasgow eight-piece pop co-operative, remastered, first time on CD; an original vinyl copy will part you with £250. ...
Aztec Camera, Roddy Frame: Aztec Camera: The Best Of (Warners)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, September 1999
Roddy Frames hits and misses 1983-98 For a while, in the early 80s, there were emerging young songwriters — among them Messrs. Frame, ...
Review and Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, September 1999
THE SNAZZIEST, JAZZIEST dance crew of the period. Their one world spirituality, sunny mysticism and conspicuous musicality makes them a real genre one-off. Never as ...
Aztec Camera, Roddy Frame: Roddy Frame
Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, September 1999
You were such a formed writer so young. Do you rate that stuff now? ...
The Jam, Ocean Colour Scene: Steve Cradock on Jam tribute album Fire and Skill
Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, October 1999
KA: What did The Jam mean to you? ...
Supergrass: Supergrass (Parlophone)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, October 1999
Third album from the scampish Oxford trio ...
Bryan Ferry: As Time Goes By (Virgin)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, November 1999
Standard time for legendary art-rocker and model ...
Beck: Midnite Vultures (Geffen)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, December 1999
Beck out-hips himself with his fourth album for Geffen, his sixth in all ...
Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, December 1999
BERNARD Butlers had a bad back. According to his osteopath, he has songs hidden in his shoulders, "Hes really lovely, a natural healer. Guitar posture, ...
XTC: Wasp Star: Apple Venus Volume 2
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, June 2000
Magnificent guitar-centric follow-on set to the orch-pop of Volume 1 ...
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, June 2001
Their Virgin albums 1978-1991, digitally remastered and available either as limited edition Japanese-import miniatures or full-artwork, extra-tracks British releases ...
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, July 2001
13 of the 30-odd albums released in the his lifetime: five twofers from the Sixties, an expanded 30th anniversary edition of his 1971 classic and ...
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, October 2001
All the studio albums 1973-1981, digitally remastered with statistic-stuffed notes and bonus tracks previously only heard on 1994's Thank You For The Music box ...
Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five: Ben Folds: Rockin' The Suburbs** (Epic)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, October 2001
FOR ALL the kick-ass live excitement and increasingly refined recorded achievements of his piano-led power trio, it was inevitable that the most musically literate pop ...
XTC: Andy Partridge: Fuzzy Warbles 1/Fuzzy Warbles 2
Review and Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, February 2003
Frontman of much-loved — and much-bootlegged — eccentric English pop band clears out his compositional closet on the first two CDs of a 10-disc series. ...
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, December 2003
The Beatles' 1969 back-to-basics project remade. In other words: de-Spectorised, remixed, re-sequenced. ...
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