Gainsbourg in the Culture Bunker I: 1967 By early 1967, the French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg had been a professional performer for nearly...
Category: Loops
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Silent Disco
She’s dancing to a song you can’t hear, to inner signals rather than noise. They give such pure direction, for once there is an...
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Red Square and Southend
Talking to me last year about OffOnOff, a noise–jazz supergroup featuring members of Dutch punk collective the Ex and Italian math-rock trio Zu alongside...
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Why Don’t Groups Split Up Any More?
Why don’t groups split up any more? This immediately begs another couple of questions: why is it a problem if they don’t? Who demands...
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Party Time with David Mancuso and the Loft
Like a soup or a bicycle or Wikipedia, the Loft is an amalgamation of parts that are weak in isolation, but joyful, revelatory and...
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Sound Envisioned
Science Fiction and Future Music (aka Sonic Fiction, Part Two) You’re familiar, I expect, with that old chestnut about the futility of writing about...
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Untitled
I am, and have been for almost twenty years now, a rubbish raver. I’m a rubbish dancer, rubbish at drugs, rubbish at fashion and...
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Private, Post-generic Truths and the Bedroom Club Belief Eke
For too long too many have toiled for the promise that music is somehow imminently poised to change the world. ‘The’ world! There’s barely...
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1973
The hype surrounding cocaine was that it somehow opened up the gateway to thinking brilliant thoughts but the reality was invariably more brutal: sudden...
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In Conversation with John Walters
In 1987 I interviewed John Peel’s producer John Walters for a book I was writing about pirate radio and the early days of Radio...
