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The Glasgow noise gremlins on turning down Lou Reed, touching George Clinton, going sports goth and “Stuart’s Penis”
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Andy Cairns reveals the Belfast venues that have fostered the city’s music scene
BRIDGET HAYDEN AND THE APPARITIONS
Cold Blows The Rain
DABBLING WITH GRAVITY…
Beyond her austere folk album: freeform drones, sinister synth ambience…
“It’s a bit of a weird costume, isn’t it? This ‘folk maiden’ thing…”
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JAMES BLACKSHAW
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BROWN SPIRITS
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THE LAST POETS
Africanism AFRICA SEVEN
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SIMON JOYNER
Nebraska songwriter on writer’s block and the complexity of grief
STRAW MAN ARMY
The NYC renegades on a fired up trilogy
DENNIS BOVELL
“Makes no difference if you change my name/In my heart I’ll remain the same”
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Dennis Bovell: “Following sound systems could be risky…”
LAURIE STYVERS
Let Me Comfort You: The Hush Rarities
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VARIOUS ARTISTS
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TERRY RILEY
Shri Camel (reissue, 1980)
THE SPECIALIST
AGARTHA Agartha: Personal Meditation Music (reissue, 1986) IMPORTANT
THE DUDE
Producer, arranger, composer, conductor, impresario and trumpeter, QUINCY JONES was one of music’s dominant forces for over half a century, whose genius gilded albums by artists including Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson and Miles Davis, as well as his own inimitable forays into jazz, big band, French pop, soundtracks and more. Neil Spencer reflects on Q’s remarkable life and achievements, from aspiring wiseguy to hit-making legend. “He could hear the complete thing,” recalls one former collaborator. “More than a dozen instruments, what they were doing, all in his head.”
2025 ALBUMS PREVIEW
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LUCINDA WILLIAMS
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MY MORNING JACKET
BLANKENSHIP; ALIYAH OTCHERE
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Genesis, Kraftwerk, Pentangle, Wilco, Bowie, The Beatles
SHELTER FROM THE STORM
Overcoming a period of dissociation and despair, Tamara Lindeman has found renewal through album THE WEATHER STATION’s new Humanhood – a record that seeks out connection and compassion in the face of daunting challenges. “It’s a document of where I was at, so it is what is,” she tells Jason Anderson. “But I’ve never worked so hard on a record ever!”
“God Make Me Funny”
Written for a radio ad, it became one of the most-sampled grooves ever, thanks to Herbie Hancock’s funky fusionists
ONCE UPON A TIME...
Next month, James Mangold’s film A Complete Unknown opens in cinemas, bringing to the big screen the early years of BOB DYLAN, from folk interloper to his electric apostasy at Newport in 1965. But how much involvement did Dylan himself have in this cinematic undertaking? Quite a lot, it seems… “His recollections and observations were critical,” Mangold tells Nick Hasted. “Including his sense that he hadn’t even come completely to terms with, or understood, what happened.”
“THEREʼS SO MUCH MUSIC”
A Complete Unknown’s Music Supervisor recalls recreating Bob
MY OWN VERSION OF YOU
More film takes on Bob
SWEET &TENDER HOOLIGANS
During punk’s most mischievous miscreants – until feuds, disagreements and differences drove them apart. Now reconciled and reunited, the pair look back at some of their most diabolical misadventures – and in doing so discover something about the enduring nature of… is it THE DAMNED’s heyday, CAPTAIN SENSIBLE and RAT SCABIES were friendship? “When I quit the band the very last time, my first emotion was anger and a feeling of ‘fuck them’,” hears Alastair McKay. “Then I thought, ‘So why did you stay in a band with them for so long?’ You realise, actually, it’s because you do have a great bond.”
NEAT NEAT NEAT
The best of the early Damned
WISH YOU WERE HERE
The madcap album that got away
The Go-Betweens
Members of the esteemed Australian indie outfit discuss their pre- and post-reformation albums
“I had this big imagination thing going on”
Fantastical creatures. The internet. Pop music. The creative spirit. Success. The nature of celebrity. That time she nearly set the house on fire... In a rare and revelatory interview from 2011 – most of it unpublished until now – KATE BUSH takes us inside her sensual world, offering us a deeper understanding of her remarkable working practices and inspirations. “The work is the interesting bit,” she told Andy Gill. “I don’t think that I’m that interesting.”
Moments of pleasure
Looking back on Kate’s magic in 2011
“A yeti eating rhododendrons...”
Night manoeuvres: (here and below right )scenes from
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JONATHAN BARNBROOK has worked with Damien Hirst and
The framing of the shrew
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BIG STAR: RADIO CITY 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
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THE SAINTS ’73-’78
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Not Fade Away
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