Paul Moody
Paul is a writer and musician. His first band, The Studio ’68! recorded an album called Portobellohello in 1992. He later joined the NME and then toured the world in psychedelic renegades Regular Fries. More recently he co-wrote a book called Looking For The Moon Under Water, based on George Orwell’s description’s of his perfect pub (published by Orion). He now lives in Hastings and dreams of the perfect wave.
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Manic Street Preachers: Cube Club, Kentish Town, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, Sounds, 27 October 1990
Preaching to the perverted ...
Ocean Colour Scene: Ladbroke Grove Subterania
Live Review by Paul Moody, Sounds, 24 November 1990
AT TIMES tonight, Ocean Colour Scene really do make sense. When Stephen Craddock's guitar bursts into 'Yesterday Today' and singer Simon matches it with a ...
The La's: Town And Country Club, Kentish Town, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, Sounds, 24 November 1990
Thrills and (s)pills ...
The Railway Children: Mean Fiddler, Harlesden, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, Sounds, 5 January 1991
SOMETIMES BAGGY really doesn't mean comfortable. Just look at the Railway Children. I've barely got my Manc-detector working before they crash into 'It's Heaven' and ...
Blur: Mother’s Litter Helpers: Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 1993
AND THE FOOLS laugh loudest. Blurs rise and fall has all the comic nuances of Reginald Perrins. Two years ago they were pops champagne Charlies: ...
The Boo Radleys: Giant Steps (Creation)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 1993
TIME FOR a rethink. At some point (just between the dreamy acoustic sway of Wish I Was Skinny and Leaves And Sand I think, but ...
Radiohead: Turn On, Tune In, Rock Out: Radiohead at the Richmond, Brighton
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 27 February 1993
WE COULDN’T have waited much longer really, could we? What with Suede so colossal, and the likes of The Auteurs and Kinky Machine still rubbing ...
Levitation, Spiritualized: Spiritualized, Levitation: Hackney Empire, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 17 April 1993
A BALD man in a silver suit is pumping plumes of silver smoke from the balcony in between playing mood-altering ambient tape-loops. Below him, the ...
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 1 May 1993
Cancel room service! The man who styled and managed those grubby pop hopefuls The Rolling Stones — forever staining the world with the concept of ...
Depeche Mode: Hanover Garbsen Stadium
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 19 June 1993
IN A marquee in the middle of a German field, Martin Gore is being cross-examined about the quasi-religious imagery of his lyrics by a frizzy-haired ...
Prince: Birmingham National Indoor Arena
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 7 August 1993
THE TINY FIGURE in silky lemon and black trouser-suit and Spanish heels is talking. ...
Radiohead: Creeping Up With The Joneses
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 11 September 1993
Their album outsells Suede's by 15 to 1, their single is in the Top 50 and MTV can't play their video enough times — in ...
The Orb, System 7: Trekroner Fort, Copenhagen
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 11 September 1993
SOMETHING'S ROCKING IN THE STATE OF DENMARK ...
2 Unlimited: Maastricht Bleepy
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 18 September 1993
For Holland's 2 UNLIMITED, purveyors of mindless Euro techno-pop (without lyrics) it's business as usual; flights to exotic destinations, endless interviews and their nth appearance ...
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 25 September 1993
SO THIS is how the other half live. It's a drizzly Sunday night and nine quid to get in, but the Haçienda is bulging under ...
The Wonder Stuff: Midlands Blank: The Wonder Stuff: Construction For The Modern Idiot (Polydor)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 2 October 1993
"Here's a question for you: are The Wonder Stuff still a credible band?" — Miles Hunt, NME, May 1990. ...
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 9 October 1993
RAWK! THIS WAY... ...
The Lemonheads: Come On Feel The Lemonheads
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 9 October 1993
FIRST, THE good news; this album will drive people mad. For Evan Dando, deeply dippy, crack-smokin, high priest of slackerdom, has actually managed to create ...
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 23 October 1993
SOME LIKE IT HUT ...
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 23 October 1993
WILD, KEEN, HAIRY HIP KIDS ...
Snoop Doggy Dogg: Muttley Crude: Snoop Doggy Dogg: Doggystyle (East West)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 4 December 1993
CULTURE ALIENATION, boredom and despair: such are the imperatives of Snoop Doggy Dogg's world. ...
Paul Weller: Wild Wood (Go! Discs)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 1994
SOMETHING TO mull over. Paul Weller has been having hit records for 16 years. Wild Wood the follow-up to his wildly-underrated debut solo outing ...
Blur: We Can Be Eros… Just For One Day
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 5 March 1994
Breaking out of the Camden bootboy mould that brought more bovver than they’d bargained for, BLUR are back with more songs about penile dementia, lager ...
Beck: Mellow Gold (Geffen/All formats)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 19 March 1994
INGOT'S DREAMING ...
The Chemical Brothers, Death In Vegas: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 19 April 1994
"E'S, COKE, anything you want..." Yeah, you gotta admit it: Brixton knows how to party. No sooner have you navigated your way around the slurring ...
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 21 May 1994
IT IS the night before the local elections, the one chance to hit the BNP where it really hurts... and Bath is sound asleep. Down ...
Report and Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 28 May 1994
Five years ago GALLIANO was just a sticky Mediterranean drink. Now they're a band on the verge of major success, spearheading the movement that's the ...
D:Ream: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 4 June 1994
PETER CUNNAH cannot dance to save his life. Of course, he knows this full well. Not for him the thrust of the hips to send ...
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 4 June 1994
RIDE STRIPPED BARE ...
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 23 July 1994
PETE TOWNSHEND, Broadway hit musical owner and destroyer of 1001 guitars, is lounging in the shade of a Twickenham afternoon like a man who's just ...
Green Day: The Dookies Of Hazards
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 3 September 1994
Smothered in mud, wrestling with bouncers, GREEN DAY are The Monkees, The Kinks, The Banana Splits and The Ramones in one handy million-selling punk rock ...
Radiohead: March Of The Modulations: Radiohead: Garage, Glasgow
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 8 October 1994
LET'S GET straight to it. Radiohead are fundamentally a very good group. They have a guitarist with space alien good-looks and the natural swagger of ...
Brand New Heavies: Mississippi Earning
Report and Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 15 October 1994
Audiences across the Atlantic have taken to THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES like their long lost brother/sister, seduced by the glamour of these sharp-dressed poppy funksters. ...
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 29 October 1994
Dartmoor, Devon, and the mist-shrouded figure wrapped in a Victorian great-coat playing the role of Flashman can only be BRETT ANDERSON. But how is Housewife ...
Jamiroquai: Cardiff University, Wales
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 11 November 1994
Champignon, The (Stevie) Wonder Hoarse ...
The Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique (Capitol)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 19 November 1994
JUST CHILLIN', like Bob Dylan. Paul's Boutique, five years on from its release way back in August '89, is still an electrifying blast of cool. ...
Urge Overkill: Cocktail of the Unexpected
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 3 December 1994
Supersuave trashlords with cocktail lounge tendencies, Chicago's URGE OVERKILL are finally surfing the British chart on the back of a surprise hit, taken from the ...
PJ Harvey, Tricky: Town & Country Club, Leeds
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 18 March 1995
THE REBIRTH OF GHOUL ...
The La's: There He’s Gone: Lee Mavers
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 15 April 1995
Simple as. When Lee Mavers talks, in that cracked-up Mersey drawl of his, he talks. ...
Marion, Menswear: Passage Du Nord Ouest, Paris
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 13 May 1995
VIVE LA PRANCE! ...
Paul Weller: Woking Back To Happiness: Paul Weller
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 13 May 1995
Its taken over a decade, but with his new album PAUL WELLER has finally gone back to his roots, the part of his life that ...
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 20 May 1995
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN ...
Black Grape: Pips Out For The Lads
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 3 June 1995
If you expected old fruit SHAUN RYDER to come back as reconstructed new man you were pissing in the wind. PAUL MOODY discovers that the ...
The Verve: Manchester Roadhouse
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 17 June 1995
SO THATS what it sounds like. A long, curdled up intro, all ghostly pyrotechnics and a death rattle of drums, then suddenly, whoosh! And the ...
Lenny Kravitz: Circus (Virgin/All formats)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 9 September 1995
CIRCUS TO REQUIREMENTS ...
Green Day: Insomniac (WEA/All formats)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 7 October 1995
SLEEPY JOE ...
Blur: Can't Fight This Fleeing: Blur: The Great Escape (Parlophone)
Review by Paul Moody, Vox, November 1995
"I'm not walking out of this/I want to stay this way forever" — Blur, 'Blue Jeans', 1993 ...
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 4 November 1995
CLOTHES ENCOUNTERS ...
The Bootleg Beatles, Oasis: Oasis, Bootleg Beatles: Earls Court, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 18 November 1995
THE STARDUST BROTHERS ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Moody, Dazed & Confused, 1996
BECKS OFFBEAT HUMOUR and devil-may-care demeanour usually leaves journalists baffled, and interviews that reveal very little. But this time Beck is unafraid to drop his ...
Denim: Denim On Ice (Echo/All formats)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 17 February 1996
SICK AND SATIRED ...
Madonna: Ray Of Light (WEA/CD/Tape)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 28 February 1996
HOW TIME flies. Four years, one child and the rise and fall of the most successful female-led uprising since the suffragettes and the lady Madonna ...
Ride: Tarantula (Creation/All formats/Available for one week only)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 2 March 1996
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOILS ...
Northern Uproar: Concorde, Brighton
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 27 April 1996
THE WONDER BUMFLUFF ...
Charlatans, The (UK): Rockfield: Searching For Console Rebels
Report and Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 11 May 1996
Rockfield: you know, the legendary Welsh studio where Oasis, the Roses, Iggy et al record amid scenes of mayhem. Sort of. Well, it seems Bebop ...
George Michael: Older (Virgin/All formats)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 25 May 1996
VICTORY MATURE ...
Ben Folds Five: Grease Is The Word
Report and Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 1 June 1996
LET'S SEE: Mike Flowers is the polyester-wigged new James Last of the cheesy-listening plague that's, erm, "sweeping the nation". So that must mean that Ben ...
The Sultans of Ping FC: Le Zenith, Paris
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 27 July 1996
EEK! FOUR years from the end of the millennium and there's still hundreds of scrawny, scrag-haired boys in trouser-sized pipecleaner jeans wanting to be The ...
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 24 August 1996
CONTEMPORARY FEMALE singer-songwriters, then: fiercely independent, forever marketed as several colours short of a full palette and ever-prone to massive crossover success care of the ...
Kula Shaker: They Camelot, They Saw, They Conquered
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 21 September 1996
They rave about King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table, elevated consciousness and all things mystical. They predict — oh lordy! — imminent, ...
Beth Orton: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 28 September 1996
OH ALRIGHT, Beth ain't quite this big on her own terms yet (tonight's mini-set is as special guest to grim old folkie John Martyn) but ...
The Boo Radleys: Kilburn National, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 28 September 1996
EXPERIMENTAL EVERYTHING ...
Soundgarden: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 5 October 1996
DESPAIR-SHAPED ...
Screaming Trees: Rock City, Nottingham
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 16 November 1996
TAKE A BOUGH ...
The Black Crowes: Astoria, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 30 November 1996
A DOZEN CRIMSON rugs strewn across a stage; the waft of incense burning sweetly from the monitors; an anaemic band clad only in the finest ...
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 14 December 1996
IN THA DOGG HOUSE ...
Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa: Pamela Des Barres: Supergroupie
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 4 January 1997
Legendary supergroupie PAMELA DES BARRES has toured the dark side of rock'n'roll and lived to tell the tale. But what does she make of young ...
Pavement: Brighten The Corners
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 8 February 1997
OI, DAMON! Got that limited-edition, ultra-rare, one-sided King Kong seven-inch remixed by John McEntire? Whaddyamean, "No"? ...
Bush: Forum, Kentish Town, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 22 February 1997
THICKET TO DERIDE ...
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 24 May 1997
THAT SNORING SOUND you can hear throughout the 69 minutes and 16 seconds of Ladies And Gentlemen…? Why, that's the sound of a young Brian ...
Michael Jackson: King of Pap: Michael Jackson: Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 19 July 1997
IT'S 5PM on anovercast Wednesday in Sheffield and the Most Famous Man On Earth is late. ...
Cornershop: When I Was Born For The 7th Time (Wiiija/All formats)
Review by Paul Moody, Melody Maker, 6 September 1997
THINK BACK. Remember when dissing Morrissey mattered, Huggy Bear were considered to be avant-garde situationists and Tony Parsons was happily sounding the death knell on ...
Primal Scream: International Language of Screaming
Report and Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 6 September 1997
So what if Primal Scream have cancelled tour dates, lost a band member and played a shaky live performance? They're just minor glitches which cannot ...
The Rolling Stones: Bridges To Babylon (Virgin)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 20 September 1997
TO CALL the Stones dinosaurs three years from the end of the century is to put tyrannosauraus rex and his Jurassic associates to shame. It ...
Mark Hollis: Hi-Elegy: Mark Hollis: Mark Hollis
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 17 January 1998
BEFORE WE GET to the heart of the matter: Mark Hollis used to be the singer in Talk Talk, a group who began their career ...
Craig David: Any Flava You Like!: Craig David: Slicker Than Your Average (Atlantic)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 9 November 2002
SOUTHHAMPTON'S SOULMAN COVERS ALL BASES IN BID FOR SERIOUS STATESIDE R&B WEDGE ...
The Libertines: Englishmen Abroad
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 21 December 2002
Those respected gentlemen of Albion, The Libertines, chose to limber up for Christmas with a typically debauched tour of mainland Europe. And, considering they fully ...
The Libertines: Sun, Sea, Sangria, Skag… The Libertines: Roxy Discoteca, Valencia
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 18 January 2003
Is Spain ready for the sex and drugs-fuelled invasion of The Libertines? ...
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 21 June 2003
The Coral may have recently performed in Utah to a crowd of eight, but their giant New Brighton circus tent bash will bring them triumphantly ...
Beck, Blur: Beck: Main Stage, Reading, Saturday 6.35pm; Blur: Main Stage, Reading, Saturday 9.30pm
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 30 August 2003
Battle of the Old-Timers: Funky robots take on a chaotic Blur ...
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 12 September 2005
THE BRAVERY, THEN: priapic quiff-rockers about to de-flower(s) the Killers-obsessed indie-nation, or calculating chancers set to self-destruct in their own tsunami of hype? ...
Dirty Pretty Things: Waterloo To Anywhere
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 21 April 2006
Carl's new gang put the past — and Pete — behind them on their classic debut ...
Kasabian: Empire (Sony/BMG) ****
Review and Interview by Paul Moody, Uncut, September 2006
Leicester's dance-rock ruffians continue their plan for global takeover with second album ...
Kasabian: Sweet & Tender Hooligans
Interview by Paul Moody, Uncut, October 2006
With a swaggering new album, and a killer live reputation, megaphone-mouthed Kasabian are a band so in demand that even Pete Townshend is prepared to ...
Arctic Monkeys: It's great when you're ape… yeah!
Interview by Paul Moody, Uncut, December 2006
In just 12 months, Arctic Monkeys have become the biggest band in the land. Uncut took the boys back to where their incredible story began ...
The Horrors: Strange House (Loog) ****
Review by Paul Moody, Uncut, April 2007
SHOCK HORROR! SOUTHEND GOTHS' REMORSELESS FIRST ...
The Libertines: Up The Bracket
Review by Paul Moody, Uncut, July 2007
Before the supermodels, the drug busts and the tabloid fallouts, Doherty and Barat cooked up a little cracker. ...
Hawkwind: The Making Of 'Silver Machine'
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Moody, Uncut, September 2007
Drugs, insanity and a "Chuck Berry riff played backwards"; Hawkwind tell the story of 'Silver Machine', the only Top 3 single ever recorded entirely on ...
Richard Hawley: From Sheffield….to Eternity!
Profile and Interview by Paul Moody, Uncut, September 2007
It's taken 25 years for Richard Hawley to be celebrated as the "Sheffield Sinatra". But how did Pulp, death and a diet of "Grolsch and ...
Hard-Fi: Once Upon A Time In The West
Review by Paul Moody, Uncut, October 2007
The Sound Of The Suburbs: Leone-Inspired Second Album From Staines Asbo Rockers. ...
Review by Paul Moody, Uncut, November 2007
Punk Veterans Unite To Unleash Raw, Roaring, Back-To-Basics Debut. ...
Press Release by Paul Moody, WME Entertainment, January 2008
"I'VE GOT something to say" whispers Martina, barely ten minutes into The Blue God, her first album for five years. "Have you?" It's a neat ...
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 29 February 2008
WELL, WHAT DID YOU EXPECT — Adele? Putting former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan — not so much human as a walking medicine cabinet — ...
The Prisoners: The Last Fourfathers
Review by Paul Moody, Uncut, March 2008
IN 1985, GRAHAM DAY was 21. His band, the Prisoners, had already made a name for themselves as part of the Milkshakes-led Medway Scene — ...
Review by Paul Moody, Uncut, April 2008
Britpop alumni enter their Berlin period. Sort of. ...
The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age Of The Understatement
Review by Paul Moody, Uncut, May 2008
NOW IT ALL makes sense. Anyone who, on hearing Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare, wondered where Alex Turner had mislaid his melodies now has their ...
Profile and Interview by Paul Moody, Uncut, July 2008
They started the band as "a positive jam", but now The Hold Steady have become one of the best in America. With an astonishing fourth ...
Review by Paul Moody, Uncut, October 2008
Scots rockers' impassioned throwback to pop's golden age. ...
Traffic: Getting It Together In The Country
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Moody, Uncut, November 2008
Dust down the Tibetan Book Of The Dead and buy in the "apple yoghurt". In 1968, Traffic — four blazing talents of rock, R'n'B, jazz ...
The Enemy: Music For The People
Review by Paul Moody, Q, May 2009
The Coventry trio face the classic second-album conundrum — play it safe or stretch themselves. The answer: try and do both. ...
Review by Paul Moody, Q, September 2009
TWO YEARS AGO, Jamie T's debut Panic Prevention laid down roots for a new kind of British pop; a frantic urban fusion of ska, hip ...
Noir Désir: Bertrand Cantat: Rock Idol Kills Lover
Report by Paul Moody, Q, November 2009
In 2003 Bertrand Cantat was France's biggest rock star. Then his girlfriend, actress Marie Trintignant, was found dead in his hotel room. ...
Live Review by Paul Moody, Q, January 2010
SEVEN O'CLOCK in Kentish Town and it appears The Forum has been invaded by a flashmob of glamorous fortune tellers. At the bar, there are ...
The Kissaway Trail, Midlake: Midlake, the Kissaway Trail: The Tabernacle, London ****
Live Review by Paul Moody, Q, April 2010
THE TABERNACLE is just about perfect for Midlake's long-awaited return to these shores. Built in 1887, and close to Mick Jagger's Powis Square crash-pad in ...
Rufus Wainwright: Cash For Questions
Interview by Paul Moody, Q, April 2010
FOR THE RECORD, THEN, OUR INTREPID DIVA: DOES HAVE HIS LEDERHOSEN CUSTOM-MADE, WAS TEMPORARILY SENT BLIND BY INJESTING TOO MANY DRUGS AND, OH YES, SINCE ...
KT Tunstall: A Round With KT Tunstall
Interview by Paul Moody, Q, March 2011
She's the eco-conscious singer-songwriter who loves Professor Brian Cox and avoids being "a champion wanker". But, be afraid: this self-confessed "single malt girl" can drink ...
Arctic Monkeys: Suck It And See
Review by Paul Moody, Q, July 2011
IN THE SPRING of 2006, with the reverberations from the success of Arctic Monkeys' debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not ...
Mick Farren: You Say You Want A Revolution: Mick Farren Looks Back
Book Excerpt by Paul Moody, 'Search For The Lost Chord', July 2013
RBP contributor Paul Moody interviewed Mick earlier this year while researching his new book Search For The Lost Chord: Looking For The Spirit Of Rock'n'Roll. We're ...
The Struts: Bristolian Rhapsody: How the Struts put the pout back in pop
Profile and Interview by Paul Moody, The Guardian, 5 March 2019
He's the leotard-clad double of Freddie Mercury with the showboating to match. Struts frontman Luke Spiller reveals how he owes it all to Justin Hawkins ...
Michael Kiwanuka's music is medicine for the soul
Interview by Paul Moody, AnOther Magazine, 31 October 2019
The softly-spoken singer opens up to Paul Moody about the 70s, self-expression and his self-titled new album, which comes out tomorrow ...
HMLTD: Why London band HMTLD are the real (meal) deal
Interview by Paul Moody, Another Man, 11 February 2020
HMLTD's Henry Spychalski talks to Paul Moody about the band's debut album West of Eden and why they're trying to offer an alternative version of ...
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