Baxter Dury
Dury’s new album has been described as “a 10-song gaze into the black hours and the characters and behaviours that swirl around them”. Who is Jonathan Wright to argue?
HEAVENLY RECORDINGS
THE NIGHT CHANCERS
What we can call, for want of a better phrase, rock music even now has a problem with the ageing process. It’s not that rock musicians don’t continue performing long past middle age, or that their back-in-the-day war stories get any less fascinating when related on BBC Four documentaries, or indeed within these pages, it’s just simply that most musicians make their best records when they’re younger.