Michele Kirsch
Michele Kirsch wrote extensively for NME and City Limits.
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20 articles
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Bobby Brown: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 1 July 1989
SEX AND HUGS AND RIGMAROLE ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Whitney Houston: NEC, Birmingham
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 7 May 1988
THE MOMENT OF TRUTH, SORTA ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Sweet Honey in the Rock: Sweet Honey In The Rock: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 23 May 1987
VOX NECTAR ...
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 ...
Shania Twain: Shania Twain (Phonogram 514 422-2) 8
Review by Michele Kirsch, Vox, June 1994
HEAR MY TWAIN A-COMIN' ...
Alyson Williams: Dominion Theatre, London
Live Review by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 13 May 1989
SEX 'N' SALVATION UNDER THE LASH ...
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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 ...
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