Michele Kirsch
Michele Kirsch wrote extensively for NME and City Limits.
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41 articles
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Shelleyan Orphan: Helleborine (Rough Trade)
Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 9 May 1987
SHELLEYAN ORPHAN are composers Caroline Crawley and Jemaur Tayle, who both love classical instruments, and have a thing about the poet Shelley. ...
The Blow Monkeys, Curtis Mayfield: Rejoice!
Interview by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 9 May 1987
Surgery's open, and here's busy Doctor Robert of THE BLOW MONKEYS: banned by the BBC, co-singing with Chicago soul legend CURTIS MAYFIELD and activating with ...
Sweet Honey In The Rock: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 23 May 1987
VOX NECTAR ...
The Replacements: Taking Out The Trash
Report and Interview by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 13 June 1987
Yup, THE REPLACEMENTS, infamous Kiss fans cum tack rock merchants, have cleaned up and become, in their own words, a respectable "showband", with a brilliant ...
Interview by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 20 February 1988
When two tribes go to war... As the Great Frankie Case ends, MICHELE KIRSCH talks to the victorious HOLLY JOHNSON ...
Penelope Spheeris: Last of the Mohawkans
Interview by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 7 May 1988
PENELOPE SPHEERIS is the West Coast punk auteur whose movies have traced the decline and fall of hard core culture. Dudes completes her trilogy of ...
Whitney Houston: NEC, Birmingham
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 7 May 1988
THE MOMENT OF TRUTH, SORTA ...
KRS-One: KRS-1: View From The Bridge
Interview by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 21 May 1988
KRS-1, tough turned thinker, raps for condoms and chillin' against crack and killin'. And yet he's seen toting a gun and posing a la Black ...
The Darling Buds, The Wonder Stuff: The Wonder Stuff, The Darling Buds: London University
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 9 July 1988
THE CHUNDER STUFF ...
JVC Force: Can you feel the force?
Interview by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 30 July 1988
Blasting the Bronx from their offshore base "Strong Island" come JVC FORCE, making hits but not taking any. MICHELE KIRSCH survives the barrage ...
Nico, The Velvet Underground: Nico: Last of the Bohemians
Obituary by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 30 July 1988
NICO, HIGH priestess of Teutonic angst, died in Ibiza last Monday night of a brain haemorrhage. She was found unconscious by the side of her ...
Prince & The Revolution: Camden Palace, London
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 6 August 1988
TWICE IN my life I've shouted "It's better than sex", and twice I've been wrong. First time I was chasin' Pop Rocks exploding candy with ...
K.T. Oslin: This Woman (RCA LP/Cassette/CD)
Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 17 December 1988
FOR THE lack of money pretensions, K.T. Oslin and her band of devout followers is, collectively, a good thing. Slightly overrated, certainly overproduced, but never ...
Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians: the New Marquee, London
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 11 February 1989
DAY DREAM RELIEVER ...
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 18 February 1989
MAMA'S FROCK is straight out of the best little top shop whorehouse in Texas. Daughter goes for a more conservative tailored black suit. Mama could ...
Alyson Williams: Dominion Theatre, London
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 13 May 1989
SEX 'N' SALVATION UNDER THE LASH ...
Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe: Johnny Cash: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 27 May 1989
I'M GOING by the rest of the crowd on this one, but it would seem that the pleasure to be had in being 'taken back ...
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Tom Petty: Full Moon Fever (MCA LP/Cassette/CD)
Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 24 June 1989
HAVING LIVED next door to the Tom Petty Experience — a guy who strapped himself into his Strat to make up new solo parts for ...
Bobby Brown: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 1 July 1989
SEX AND HUGS AND RIGMAROLE ...
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 9 September 1989
PRETTY UPMARKET for a rent party, or a money for drugs party, or a money for a new pair of trousers for building site bottom ...
24-7 Spyz: Subterrania, London
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 16 September 1989
FINGERSTICKIN' GOOD ...
Mary Margaret O'Hara: Mary Mary Quite Contrary
Interview by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 2 December 1989
Gawky Canuck MARY MARGARET O'HARA unfit for Irish TV shock! So should we be flinging her magical-pop-with-freaky-dancing at our kids? Most deffo, reckons MICHELE KIRSCH. ...
Butch Hancock: Own & Own (Demon LP/Cassette/CD)
Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 6 January 1990
OUT OF the Texas troubadour tradition croaks the least famous former Flatlander (early '70s cult Country band — write a letter to Fred Fact for ...
Timbuk3: Edge Of Allegiance (IRS LP/Cassette/CD)
Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 27 January 1990
TIMBUK3 MIGHT be singing for the patriots or potheads of America; depends how much you swallow their irony, and if you believe you can love ...
The Roches: Dominion Theatre, London
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 24 March 1990
YOU HAVE to understand, weird was not always marketable. Here we have three sisters from New Jersey who've been standing on a stage with acoustic ...
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, September 1990
DURAN DURAN, like most early '80s hygienic post-punk pop, played alongside current chart hits has you yearning for stuff you hated first time round. Compare ...
Peter Blegvad: King Strut And Other Stories
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, September 1990
HE'S BEEN in all the right bands (Golden Palominos, Slapp Happy) and some of the wrong ones (Henry Cow), but Peter Blegvad has stayed on ...
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, September 1990
THESE WERE the bad guys in Purple Rain, which was just a movie, so it doesn't mean that they treat Prince like shit in real ...
2 Live Crew: As Clean As They Wanna Be (Luke)
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, October 1990
WASHING DIRTY LINEN IN PUBLIC ...
Monie Love: Down To Earth (Warner Bros.)
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, October 1990
FEMINIST RAPPER Monie Love uses the word "sister" so much as a term of spiritual endearment to all creatures feminine that it's a dead givaway ...
My Life Story: Powerhaus, London
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 26 January 1991
THE JAMES Bond theme 'You Only Live Twice' fills the air with its dense, muzak-y glamour as we spy the mermaid decopaged music stands swaying ...
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, April 1991
MORE TWISTED tales from the cynical heart of America between the wars (Vietnam and this one), or at least between girlfriends — the weird ones. ...
Nanci Griffith: Late Night Grande Hotel
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, October 1991
INFAMOUS for posing for pictures with books by her favourite Southern authors — Larry McMurtry (Deep South epics) and Carson McCullers (Ballad Of The Sad ...
Billy Bragg: Don't Try This At Home
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, November 1991
ON 1988's Worker's Playtime LP, Billy Bragg was "Waiting for the great leap forwards". It's been a long time coming, but he's made that leap, ...
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, February 1992
AMERICAN SINGER/ SONGWRITER Tori Amos sounds a lot like Mary Margaret O'Hara and Victoria Williams. And while it'd be nice to think that whatever she ...
Lyle Lovett: Joshua Judges Ruth (MCA)
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, May 1992
LOVETT CALLS this his "gospel death" album — partly because there's a long song about how fun funerals are, how you get to see all ...
Mary Coughlan: Sentimental Killer (East West)
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, May 1992
IN TERMS of her accent, Coughlan is to Ireland what the Proclaimers are to Scotland. She has an almost conversational approach to jazz blues, singing ...
Michelle Shocked: Arkansas Traveller (London)
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, May 1992
SHE'S DUMPED the big band from 1990's Captain Swing and gone back to her mountain music roots — not folk whimsy but hardcore hillbilly stuff. ...
Sinead O'Connor: Am I Not Your Girl?
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, October 1992
WRITERS BLOCK? Contractual obligation? Or just a really long joke without the funny bit? Sinead O'Connor has made a record of cover versions of songs ...
Kathy Mattea: Walking Away A Winner (Phonogram)
Review by Michele Kirsch, Vox, June 1994
THE TITLE speaks volumes for Mattea's earthy alto, which swells with cola-commercial can-do positivity, even on the sad songs. While this is a vocal quality ...
Shania Twain: Shania Twain (Phonogram 514 422-2) 8
Review by Michele Kirsch, Vox, June 1994
HEAR MY TWAIN A-COMIN' ...
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