Mike Stand
Mike Stand was an alias for the one and only Phil Sutcliffe - très droll, n'est-ce-pas?
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Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, April 1981
"GOD HOLD you in the palm of His hand," said Saxa pulling the bedclothes up to his chin. "He close it and you are dead. ...
Crass Words: The Aesthetics of Anarchy
Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, December 1981
A Report from the House of Crass ...
Bauhaus: Darkness and Degradation in Sound and Word
Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, February 1982
But first let’s talk about Northampton! ...
Meat Loaf: Loaf Story, Or How To Sell Eight Million Albums When Nobody’s Looking
Profile and Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 17 September 1981
MEAT LOAF'S Bat Out Of Hell album was unquestionably one of the rock phenomena of the last decade. And, of course, success is wonderful... but ...
XTC: Optimism Is Next Week’s Thing
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 18 September 1980
TERRY CHAMBERS said, "I want to talk to you". I said, "Fine". Fine. Then the drummer walked away and I didn't see him again until ...
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 27 November 1980
TOYAH WILCOX is 22. Before this winter she had featured in four movies, Quadrophenia, Derek Jarman’s Jubilee and The Tempest, plus The Corn Is Green ...
The Jam: Riding Waves And Setting Standards
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 6 March 1980
WHEN I met Paul Weller I saw red. His shirt, his trousers, his pullover, his shoes – and I daresay his St. Michael Y-fronts – ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers: Bob Marley: Better Off Dread
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 7 August 1980
IF THE first time you heard Bob Marley and the Wailers was when ‘Could You Be Loved’ came skanking out of the radio, you probably ...
Soft Cell: Bedsitting with Soft Cell
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 12 November 1981
‘BEDSITTER’? I’M not knocking it, but the table in Marc Almond’s Leeds bed-sitting room probably said more on the subject than the complete lyric of ...
Spandau Ballet: Journey to Glory: Spandau Ballet
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 20 August 1981
OH THE languid suave of it! Oh the sunshine, the street café, the iced cocktails! Oh the elegant beaus and the graceful belles! Oh to ...
Dexys Midnight Runners: Hearts Full Of Soul: Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, May 1980
Dexy's Midnight Runners are working towards (cue fanfare) The End Of Rock As We Know It. Punk, heavy metal, ska, country & western, reggae, everything ...
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 3 September 1981
"HAVEN'T YOU heard? I'm a Fifth Columnist for the Year Of Disabled People. They've bribed me massively." ...
The Passions: Ships That Passion The Night
Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, August 1980
"I MET THESE skinheads on the tube the other day who recognised me from a gig. They said they didn't know my name but they'd ...
Hazel O'Connor: Cracked Actress: Hazel O' Connor
Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, May 1981
HAZEL O'Connor lives on the fourth floor of a redbrick building in West Hampstead that looks as though it should belong to the water board ...
Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, June 1980
‘A FOREST’ a hit? Improbable as it sounds, yes. The Cure are on the move again. ...
Depeche Mode: No Time To Even Think
Interview by Mike Stand, New Sounds New Styles, March 1982
"HELLO MARTIN," I said to the spikey redhead peering round the door. "Andy," said Andy, smiling nonetheless. ...
Madness: The Importance of Being Nutty
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 17 April 1980
Mike Stand diagnoses Madness ... ...
Ian Dury: The Royal Academy of Jackthelademy
Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, December 1980
THE ARTIST, cultivator of a thousand verbaceous boarders, sits on a plastic chair in this desert of a room. Cropped short his greying hair gives ...
Joe Jackson: Indifferent To Joe
Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, May 1980
ROCK 'N' ROLL is supposed to be from The Wrong Side Of The Tracks and I suppose the Joe Jackson Band's rehearsal room qualifies. It's ...
Ian Dury, Chaz Jankel: Ian Dury and Chaz Jankel: Teeth and Smiles
Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, September 1981
IAN DURY is in prime form. He is just back from a short holiday in Greece and is, if not exactly bronzed, then distinctly off-white, ...
Kate Bush: Things Your Mother Never Told You
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 18 October 1979
NOW HOW can I put this without being rude? When I first heard 'Wuthering Heights' Kate Bush's voice reminded me of, well...come on, out with ...
Duran Duran: In New York New York With Duran Duran
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 15 October 1981
So good they named 'em twice. Postcard from Mike Stand. ...
Tenpole Tudor: Let's Get Serious
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 26 November 1981
MIKE STAND DISCOVERS THE OTHER SIDE OF EDDIE TENPOLE ...
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 26 June 1980
Mike Stand takes his 2HB and a C90 up the M6 to meet UB40 ...
The Selecter: 'Two Tone, Black And White, That's The Whole Thing'
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 10 January 1980
Mike Stand (a sort of grubby grey) checks out The Selecter ...
Classix Nouveaux: Art Nouveaux
Profile and Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 2 April 1981
Mike Stand presents a crash course in the Classix ...
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 23 July 1981
Mike Stand gets the lowdown on electro-disco from Rusty Egan. ...
Profile and Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 21 January 1982
"THE WEIRD thing is we've sold nearly a million albums back home and about 20 in the UK," say the Go-Go's, sounding a little bemused ...
Sham 69: Jimmy Pursey: People Try To Put Me Down...
Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, May 1980
"PEOPLE PUT me down as a loudmouth. Well, I've got a lot to talk about," said Jimmy Pursey and proved it at once by descending ...
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