Wyndham Wallace
Wyndham Wallace is genuinely the name of an Englishman who's lived in Berlin, Germany since 2004, after spending the previous eight years running the UK office of Berlin's City Slang Records. His first book, Lee, Myself & I (about his friendship with Lee Hazlewood) was published in May, 2015 by Jawbone Press. He often works as a music and (occasional) travel journalist, writing regularly for (amongst others) Uncut, The Quietus and Classic Pop (for whom he is the New Releases reviews editor), as well as contributing to other publications including The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Electronic Beats, BBC Music (RIP) and Slow Travel Berlin. He is also a writer/editor/photographer for the acclaimed A Poor Man’s Connoisseur Guide series, which has now published three volumes (Oslo, Tromsø and Træna), and his photographs have been published in The Guardian, Berliner Zeitung, Uncut, View and more.
In addition, he consults for two of Norway’s finest festivals, by:Larm and Træna, and managed legendary singer/songwriter/producer/entrepreneur Lee Hazlewood, as well as Nashville musician Cortney Tidwell, writing lyrics for both. He’s also been known to provide English language subtitles for German films, including Jan Ole Gerster’s award-winning Oh Boy (aka A Coffee In Berlin); Sebastian Schipper’s extraordinary My Name Is Victoria (for which he also acted as music consultant, working with composer Nils Frahm) and Mitte Ende August; Justus Von Dohnányi’s Disaster; Christian Alvart’s Banklady and Sigrid Hoerner’s Miss Sixty. Furthermore, he’s written album liner notes and artist press biographies for a diverse range of artists. Of course he’s never met anyone else called Wyndham, but he knows they’re out there.
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World Domination Enterprises: A World Of Noise: World Domination Enterprises
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 1 September 2009
"We were the most exciting band in the world, but the world never quite realised it," claims mainman Keith Dobson of the gargantuan World Domination ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 28 September 2009
IT'S AN ACCIDENT of history that Moose are said to have inspired the term 'shoegazing'. ...
Vic Chesnutt's back with three new albums in as many months…
Report and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 18 October 2009
He calls himself "the biggest fuck up in the music business" but, according to Wyndham Wallace, Vic Chesnutt is turning into one of its greatest ...
Yello: Mad About Saffron: Thirty Years of Yello
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 4 December 2009
Yello's Dieter Meier sits down with Wyndham Wallace to discuss the duo's new album Touch and three decades as an aristocratic prankster. ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, 2010
Canadian trio take a trip to the Deep South. ...
Jenny Hval, rockettothesky: Jenny & the Jets: The Musical Universe of Rockettothesky
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 12 January 2010
Rockettothesky's Jenny Hval may have made little impact outside of Scandinavia, but that needs to change. According to Wyndham Wallace, she's one of the most ...
Micah P. Hinson: Micah P. Hinson and the Pioneer Saboteurs
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, May 2010
A powerfully ominous reshaping of old-school Americana. ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, August 2010
GUARANTEED WORLDWIDE coverage because of his day job as Radiohead's drummer and signed to Bella Union, a UK indie label currently at the top of ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, August 2010
Post-shoegazing classic reissued with bonus disc of demos. ...
Propaganda: Your Wish Is My Command: Propaganda's A Secret Wish
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 5 August 2010
Celebrating 25 years since its release, Propaganda's A Secret Wish has just been reissued with a bonus disc of rarities. Wyndham Wallace confronts their Sturm ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, 6 August 2010
A DOUBLE CD celebrating the retirement, after 25 years, of what was once dismissed as a little more than a prototype Norwegian boy band seems ...
The Jesus & Mary Chain: Upside Down – The Best Of The Jesus & Mary Chain
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, 27 September 2010
TO DECLARE, as this CD's artwork does, that East Kilbride's Jesus & Mary Chain are "arguably the last great British rock'n'roll band" is almost as ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, October 2010
NEIL YOUNG NOW belongs to that rare stratum of artists whose work is no longer judged purely on its merits but on the basis of ...
Simply Red: Let The Red Flag Fly: In Defence of Picture Book
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 27 October 2010
The Quietus battens down the hatches and prepares for a storm as Wyndham Wallace risks all to defend Simply Red's debut album, Picture Book, on ...
Janelle Monáe: Postbahnhof, Berlin — Not The Archandroid We're Looking For
Live Review by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 17 December 2010
Janelle Monáe's got it all, so why do we need any more? Wyndham Wallace reports from her recent Berlin show… ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, Summer 2010
Roll Over Beethoven: blurring the boundaries between indie and classical. ...
The Waterboys: There's Something In The Water: The Waterboys' This Is The Sea at 25
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 27 April 2011
Wyndham Wallace talks to Mike Scott of The Waterboys about his classic album This Is The Sea, 25 years on from its release… ...
How The Music Industry Is Killing Music And Blaming The Fans
Comment by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 24 May 2011
While the industry continues to blame illegal downloading for its financial woes, it's musicians who are paying the price while being forced to work harder ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 7 June 2011
FOUR YEARS or so ago, the oft-repeated story goes, Justin Vernon was holed up in a cabin in the rural wilderness of Wisconsin, recovering from ...
East River Pipe: "A Songwriter Who Works at Home Depot": F.M. Cornog of East River Pipe interviewed
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 15 June 2011
Cult singer songwriter Fred Cornog of East River Pipe talks to Wyndham Wallace about "scratching out a living, and trying to survive with a little ...
Cashier No. 9: Cashier No.9: To The Death Of Fun
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, 20 June 2011
RIGHT FROM the off, it's clear that Cashier No 9 are not another of those bands who seek to revel in self-pity and navel gazing. ...
Brian Eno/Rick Holland: Drums Between The Bells
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, July 2011
IT'S HARD TO know what's more surprising: the fact a man approaching his mid-60s continues to release groundbreaking music in such quantities that this is ...
Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Beyond the Pleasuredome: Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Liverpool
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 4 July 2011
Wyndham Wallace follows last year's celebration of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's landmark album, Welcome to the Pleasuredome, with a look at its neglected follow-up, Liverpool, ...
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 18 July 2011
Wyndham Wallace takes a road trip from London to Essen, Germany, with a truckload of CDs, LPs, and the unlikely company of the Charlatans' Tim ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, September 2011
OVER FOUR DECADES since the six shows - recorded over three nights in October 1968 and documented in this four CD set – that helped ...
Art of Noise: The Art Of Noise: Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, September 2011
Innovative, sample-pioneering debut on CD at last. ...
The Waterboys: An Appointment With Mr Yeats
Review by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, September 2011
THOUGH MIKE SCOTT'S attempt to marry the poetry of William Butler Yeats to his own music has been promised for two decades, it offers neither ...
Talk Talk: Laugh? I Nearly Died: The Story of Talk Talk's Laughing Stock
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 12 September 2011
A triumph of art over commerce or ruthless, selfish exploitation? On the 20th anniversary of its release, Wyndham Wallace looks at the complex story behind ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 25 October 2011
It's the music you can enjoy between meals without spoiling your appetite, made by the world's favourite band and hand-built by robots. Lipsmackin', thirstquenchin', acetastin', ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, November 2011
POP MUSICIANS have many aspirations, but one that is often hardest to fulfil is to be taken seriously. ...
Loney, Dear: "I Love Crying": Loney Dear's Lovely, Lonely World
Profile and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 17 November 2011
Emil Svanängen's sixth album has just been released to quiet but universal acclaim, yet still he's not happy. Wyndham Wallace explores the intimate, ingenuous universe ...
Gorillaz: The Singles Collection 2001-2011
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, December 2011
THINK OF BLUR'S Damon Albarn and one thinks of Britpop, which is rather unfair, given that he's spent the last fifteen years working on projects ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, Fall 2011
WITH THE CRITICAL mass now in her favour, a commercial breakthrough seems inevitable for St. Vincent, known otherwise as Annie Clark, poster girl for indie ...
Bat for Lashes: The Haunted Man
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, 2012
Ivor Novello Award winner takes things a little too seriously. ...
Patrick Watson: Adventures In Your Own Backyard
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, 2012
SOMETHING OF a star in his Canadian homeland after winning the 2007 Polaris Prize – the country's equivalent of the Mercury Prize – for his ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, January 2012
Classy Americana from Canadian chanteuse produced by Bon Iver. ...
Sunn O))): Black Gold Of The Sunn O))): Earth's Loudest Band
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 23 January 2012
Wyndham Wallace talks to Stephen O'Malley about volume, improvisation, the reissue of Sunn O)))'s debut album ØØ Void and Sunn O))) action figures… ...
David Sylvian: Laughter & Forgetting: The Strange & Frightening World Of David Sylvian
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 19 March 2012
A new compilation, A Victim Of Stars 1982-2012, celebrates thirty years of solo work by David Sylvian, who guides Wyndham Wallace through some of its ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, April 2012
TWELVE YEARS after their last studio album, Karl Wallinger has finally decided he's ready to resurrect World Party, the vehicle for his songwriting that birthed ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, May 2012
THEY CREEP up on you, Guillemots, as the best music so often does. There's no boasting, there are few brash novelties – unless you count ...
Richard Hawley: Standing at the Sky's Edge
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, May 2012
"… AND THIS ONE'S for all the men in the house." Yes, after a decade of seducing career couples with the Roy Orbison stylings of ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, May 2012
IF THE RELEASE of Sigur Rós' last studio album, Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust, led people to fear that the band's days crafting ...
Levitation: "Don't Question Everything": Levitation's Need For Not Revisited
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 15 May 2012
"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more." Wyndham Wallace celebrates a forgotten classic 20 years ...
Levitation: Whirled Around: The Rise & Fall Of Levitation
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 23 May 2012
20 years ago, on the eve of their debut album's release, Levitation looked like they'd explode. Instead, a year later, they imploded. Wyndham Wallace invites ...
Bobby Womack: The Bravest Man In The Universe
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, June 2012
THEY'RE CALLING IT a masterpiece. That's the way when these beloved legends come in from the cold: so welcome is their return that weaknesses are ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, June 2012
Can do: quintessential krautrock rescued from the archives. ...
Chilly Gonzales: Piano Solos II
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, August 2012
THOUGH HE'S BEST known for his mischievous, multiple redefinitions of hip hop – including his last release which, he claimed, was the world's first orchestral ...
Herbert Grönemeyer: Herbert Goes 'Banana': Germany's Biggest Star Takes On England
Profile and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 22 August 2012
Virtually unknown in Britain, Herbert Grönemeyer is a huge star in his native Germany, having sold 18 million albums. Now his sights are set on ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, September 2012
WITH OPENING track 'Sleeping Ute''s initially perplexing time signature and the subsequent psychedelic noises that tear from the speaker to speaker, it's clear success hasn't ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, September 2012
WHILE A MUSICIAN'S ability to overcome the temporary loss of a thumb certainly doesn't match the achievements of the Paralympians last summer, there's something similarly ...
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, Upon Paper, October 2012
"Breathe on me, eclipse my mind. It's in some kind of disarray." ('Chameleon Day') ...
Leslie Winer: "If I Hit You, You'd Feel It": Leslie Winer, Trip Hop's Forgotten Pioneer?
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 29 October 2012
Some argue that Leslie Winer aka © invented trip hop in 1990 with her ill-fated album, Witch. Now she's back with &c, a retrospective compilation ...
Cody ChesnuTT: Landing On A Hundred
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, November 2012
IF YOU'RE OF the opinion that soul music in the 21st Century lacks the authenticity of its golden late 1960s/early 1970s period, then Cody ChesnuTT's ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, November 2012
WHEN HANS-PETER Lindstrøm released Six Cups Of Rebel earlier this year, fans of the Norwegian producer might have wondered what they were putting in the ...
Tracey Thorn: Tinsel and Lights
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, November 2012
DECEMBER'S NORMALLY dominated by chart artists seeking to grab a slice of Christmas pie, whether it be Dean Martin, Cliff Richard or the latest X ...
Duran Duran: Looking Back to Planet Earth and Beyond: Five Decades of Duran Duran
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, December 2012
Please, please tell me now! As John Taylor publishes his autobiography, In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran, Wyndham Wallace accompanies him through ...
John Cale: Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, Fall 2012
IT'S UNFAIR THAT, almost half a century since their formation, John Cale remains best known for his role as co-founder of the Velvet Underground. ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, February 2013
Radiohead frontman remains instantly recognisable despite electronic disguise. ...
Ed Harcourt: Death Before Silence: Ed Harcourt's Baker's Dozen
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 4 March 2013
Singer, songwriter, pianist and all round bon viveur Ed Harcourt talks to Wyndham Wallace about his favourite records. ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, 4 March 2013
Prized session guitarist teases with six tracks of graceful simplicity. ...
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: From Kraftwerk to Craftsmen
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, May 2013
They were just "two guys with a tape recorder and a name as long as the stage they were standing on", but Orchestral Manoeuvres In ...
Travis: How We Learned to Hate Travis and Why We May Be Wrong
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 28 May 2013
With Where You Stand, their seventh album – and first for five years – due out this summer, frontman Fran Healy joins Wyndham Wallace to ...
Sinéad O'Connor: Institutionalised: The Faith and Courage of Sinead O'Connor
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 5 June 2013
Though her personal life has often overshadowed her career, Sinead O'Connor remains a treasured musical force. Belatedly back on the road to promote her most ...
Tears For Fears: This Is Going To Hurt: The Mad World Of Tears For Fears’ Debut LP
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 20 September 2013
In his 100th piece for The Quietus, Wyndham Wallace talks to five key figures behind Tears for Fears to present an epic oral history of ...
Kitchens of Distinction: An Accidental Comeback: Reassembling Kitchens of Distinction
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 23 September 2013
The return of Kitchens of Distinction was unexpected, even for the band. Wyndham Wallace joins them for their first face-to-face interview together in almost two ...
Morcheeba: Specs & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll: True Stories Of Morcheeba
Profile and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 18 October 2013
Morcheeba may no longer be flavour of the month, or even the decade, but they've lived it large and survived to tell great tales. As ...
Let's Take A Walk: Clara Hill Interviewed
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 29 October 2013
With her fourth album, former Jazzanova protégé Clara Hill has reinvented herself as a singer of experimental indie-electronic torch songs. Wyndham Wallace asks her how ...
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, November 2013
A new book, Martin Aston's Facing The Other Way, tells the story of a label that scored just a single number one hit during the ...
Talk Talk: Classic Album: Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, November 2013
Twenty five years ago, Talk Talk's fourth album was spurned upon its release, lasted only five weeks in the British charts and led the band ...
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 10 December 2013
Band Aid raised awareness of a disastrous famine, as well as huge sums of money to try ease it. But, one year ahead of its ...
Bark Psychosis: I Put A Spell On You: The Story of Bark Psychosis' Hex
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 14 August 2014
Twenty years after their debut album, Hex, Bark Psychosis' legacy may not be widely celebrated, but their influence is pervasive. Wyndham Wallace tells the complex, ...
Semibreve festival: Braga, Portugal
Report by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 3 November 2014
Wyndham Wallace reports from Braga on a weekend of eye-opening, ear-bending, mind-broadening performances at Portugal's premier digital arts festival. ...
Radiohead: World Class: How Radiohead Gave Us The Bends
Memoir by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 3 March 2015
Though The Bends has since been overshadowed by what followed, its release 25 years ago found Radiohead on the cusp of stardom. Wyndham Wallace joins ...
Book Excerpt by Wyndham Wallace, 'Lee, Myself & I' (Jawbone), May 2015
The following extract takes place within a few minutes of my first meeting with Lee Hazlewood in April, 1999, at New York's Grand Hyatt Hotel, ...
A-ha: Their Valuable Hunting Life: The Rocky Road to A-Ha's Hunting High & Low
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 22 September 2015
Thirty years after a-Ha unveiled their debut, Hunting High & Low – and as they release a new album, Cast In Steel – Wyndham Wallace ...
It's Immaterial: Living in an Immaterial World
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, October 2015
Emerging from the punk and art school scene of 1970s Liverpool, It's Immaterial are the band that time cruelly forgot. Despite one enduring big hit, ...
DM Stith: Interview: DM Stith on his new album Pigeonheart
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 6 June 2016
After touring with Sufjan Stevens, and working on the Revival Hour's debut album with the Earlies' JM Lapham, DM Stith discusses the difficult genesis of ...
It's Immaterial: "We got there!" Cult pop band It's Immaterial back after 27 years
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Guardian, 15 September 2020
The literate Liverpudlians had a one-off hit with 'Driving Away from Home' in 1986, but perfectionism and tragedy prevented their third album coming out until ...
Gomez's Tom Gray Discusses Musicians In Crisis
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, October 2020
The Gomez multi-instrumentalist speaks to Wyndham Wallace in a video interview about his #brokenrecord campaign, which has shone an unforgiving light on not only the ...
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