A QUICK ONE

Zeppelin takes off!

The band’s instant ESP captured in new early-years documentary, Becoming Led Zeppelin

Single again

Thirty years on, The Wedding Present are reprising their classic wheeze by releasing one 7” single per month in 2022

“I’m still very young”

Charles Lloyd has played sax with Howlin’ Wolf, The Band and The Beach Boys. At 83, he remains “drunk with the music”

“You think you’ve had a lot of fun/But you ain’t got nothing, you’re on the run”

BY now most of us,

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DECEMBER 2021 EDITOR Michael Bonner EDITOR (ONE-SHOTS) John

Dead Moon fever!

Bassist Toody Cole recalls her wild ride with the influential Portland DIY rockers

Billy Nomates

Increasingly soulful electronic punk from the straight-shooting one-woman band

UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month

Conversation Pieces

15 tracks of the month’s best new music

“I have great rhythm!”

AN AUDIENCE WITH DION

DEAN WAREHAM

I Have Nothing To Say To The Mayor Of LA DOUBLE FEATURE

ANOTHER GALAXIE

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DAMON ALBARN

The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows TRANSGRESSIVE 8/10

A to Z

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BEDOUINE

Waysides THE ORCHARD 8/10

MARGO CILKER

Pohorylle LOOSE 8/10

ENDLESS BOOGIE

Admonitions NO QUARTER 8/10

CURTIS HARDING

If Words Were Flowers ANTI 8/10

RICHARD DAWSON & CIRCLE

Henki WEIRD WORLD 9/10

LINDA FREDRIKSSON

Juniper WE JAZZ 9/10

THE BEATLES Let It Be (Special Deluxe Edition)

APPLECORPSLTD/CAPITOL/UME

EVERYBODY HAD A GOOD TIME

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RADIOHEAD

Kid A Mnesia XL 9/10

AtoZ

This month…

EARLY ELECTRONICS

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JOHN COLTRANE

A Love Supreme – Live In Seattle IMPULSE 10/10

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN

Crocodiles/Heaven Up Here/Porcupine/ Ocean Rain (reissues, 1980, ’81, ’83, ’84) RHINO 8/10, 8/10, 8/10, 9/10

LEO NOCENTELLI

Another Side LIGHT IN THE ATTIC 9/10

JOËL VANDROOGENBROECK

Far View DRAG CITY 8/10

The Spirit Of Eden

Zookeeper, garage-rock avatar, avant-garde explorer… Jack Cooper had already travelled long distances before he left the city for the right kind of quiet. But while this move has given Cooper fresh perspective, what does it mean for his band, MODERN NATURE? Tom Pinnock joins Cooper in a field in England: “I’m after openness and expansiveness now.”

COOPER’S CATALOGUE

The peaks of the songwriter’s work so far

Fully Qualifıed Outsider

With MICHAEL CHAPMAN’s passing, we have lost a true original: an indefatigable singer-songwriter who bridged the gap between the visionary guitarists of the ’60s and their 21st century counterparts. In this interview from 2016 – much of it previously unpublished – Chapman talks Tom Pinnock through the many highlights of his remarkable and enduring career: “All there is, is freedom.”

“HE WENT HIS WAY”

EYE WITNESS

Songs of the land, the sea and the stars

Riding high on the creative momentum of Fisherman’s Blues, in 1989 THE WATERBOYS reconvened at their new spiritual home on the west coast of Ireland to make the follow-up, with a seven-piece live band that had been hitting rare heights of roots rock rapture on tour. Mike Scott’s plan to broaden the sound didn’t quite go to plan, but as a new box-set reveals, Room To Roam was far from the misfire it was initially dismissed as. Graeme Thomson gets the whole story from the artists formerly known as “The Magnificent Seven”

THE MAGIC OF SPIDDAL HOUSE

‘otherwordly’ home to Roam BUILT in the early

HOW LONG WILL I LOVE YOU

The overdue rehabilitation of a Waterboys hit that never was

Laraaji

Cosmic zither improvs, orange togs, atmospheric landmarks and beyond

THE MESSENGER

Poet, jazz musician, rap pioneer, radical activist… GIL SCOTT-HERON broke a lot of ground during the early ’70s. As his landmark album Pieces Of A Man turns 50, collaborators and eyewitnesses tell Sam Richards about Scott-Heron’s creative peak, the power of his songs and the importance of what he was saying: “He was serving the entire community, the entire world, by bringing these things to light…”

REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE

Buyer’s guide to Gil Scott-Heron

“HIS VOICE IS SO POWERFUL”

Chicago jazz kingpin Makaya McCraven reveals what it was like to work posthumously with Gil on 2020’s We’re New Again

IN THE PINK

From Roger Waters’ kitchen table in the South of France to the cavernous soundstages of Pinewood Studios, stadia and beyond… With a new book featuring previously unseen artwork due out this month, GERALD SCARFE rebuilds Pink Floyd’s THE WALL. “They thought I was ‘fucking mad’,” he tells Nigel Williamson

Electrolite by REM

Tacked on the end of New Adventures…, this happy-sad elegy to Hollywood was initially disliked by Stipe, but “turned out to be one of our best songs ever”

BECAUSE YOU’RE YOUNG

On the cusp of a new century, what does DAVID BOWIE do? Having plotted a dramatic course forward across four decades, he decides instead to revisit a number of songs from the earliest days of his career. But the album he records, called TOY, is consigned to Bowie's vaults, where it has been the subject of much intense speculation ever since. To celebrate its imminent release -21 years late! -we bring you the definitive account of David Bowie's legendary lost album as told by Bowie's closest collaborators and confidants. “It’s a ghost album,” Tony Visconti tells Peter Watts. “I’m so glad people are now getting to hear it, because I think some of David’s finest work is on Toy.”

BRILLIANT ADVENTURE

What’s in it apart from Toy?

END OF THE ROAD

Larmer Tree Gardens, Wiltshire, September 2–5

NEW ORDER

The Piece Hall, Halifax, September 8

GENESIS

AO Arena, Manchester, September 24

A love letter to the old West End, a highstakes thriller, and an ‘unfilmable’ sci-fi tale, erm, filmed again...

LAST NIGHT IN SOHO While property prices make

REVIEWED THIS MONTH

LAST NIGHT IN SOHO Directed by Edgar Wright

ALSO OUT...

HALLOWEEN KILLS OPENS OCTOBER 15 Masked maniac Michael

LOOK AWAY

A sobering look at an industry overdue its #MeToo reckoning. By Lisa-Marie Ferla

SOMEWHERE YOU FEEL FREE: THE MAKING OF WILDFLOWERS

TRAFALGAR 8/10 Behind the scenes circa 1994 In

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CINEOLA 8/10 Matt Johnson’s regal return Tim Pope’s

THE NOWHERE INN

MODERN FILMS; DOC’N ROLL REGIONAL CINEMAS

BOOKS

WHEN Primal Scream were still a feeble indie

Not Fade Away

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