John Cale: Paradiso, Amsterdam
Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, November 1975
EUROPE'S MOST DECADENT capital: inflatable paramours dangling like trussed chickens in the windows of the sex shops, hookers in their shop windows, the smack centre of ...

Patti Smith: Horses
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, November 1975
FIRST ALBUMS THIS good are pretty damn few and far between. ...

This Heat Are No Picnic
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, August 1977
WHO IS this, anyway?" Giovanni Dadomo demanded. "The Caligari Brothers?" Funny you should say that, my pasta-eating pal. ...

Magazine: This Man Is Not A Minor Writer!
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, October 1977
For a start he's dispensed with words! ...

The Fall
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, ZigZag, February 1978
AH THE FALL! My mind fell on a quote that was all I knew of the name, something like '...there's hardly another band fit to lick ...

Magazine: Howard Devoto's Enigma Variations
Profile and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, February 1978
HOWARD DEVOTO gives good face. Unlined and triangular, topped with a vast expanse of forehead; the kind that popular folklore maintains is the unmistakeable dead-giveaway telltale ...

Wire
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, March 1978
WHEN WIRE came out of the Punk No-man's-land with their strikingly different debut album Pink Flag they seemed one of the hottest hopes for lifting rock ...

Throbbing Gristle
Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, March 1978
THROBBING GRISTLE: Drop that name in any conversation and watch the reaction. Giggling or nervous laughter, disgust or horror, blankness or a polite "Who?" Yeah, a ...

Wire: Limit Club, Sheffield
Live Review by Andy Gill, NME, May 1978
TO USE an alimentary analogy, punk can be seen as a kind of musical laxative, clearing away all that stodgy stuff that was blocking the system. ...

Magazine: Real Life
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, June 1978
'I'm faking an extravagant journey, also it seems to me...' ...

Industrial Paranoia: The Very Dangerous Visions Of Throbbing Gristle
Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, June 1978
'All art aspires to the condition of musak.' 'Most of the people who disapprove of musak... but we are doing it for your own good!' 'Possibilities ...

Magazine
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, June 1978
I THINK it was the Jesuits of whom it was said they always answer a question with a question. Or maybe it was the Jews. Whichever, ...

Alternative TV: The Image Has Cracked
Review by Paul Morley, NME, June 1978
MARK PERRY has been a confused person and, through that, confusing. ...

The Pop Group/This Heat: Collegiate Theatre, London
Live Review by Ian Penman, NME, July 1978
TWO SEEMINGLY unconventional, superficially 'bleak', jagged modern-music outfits. Both engineer music suggesting radical departure, still somehow ...

Jilted John
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, July 1978
MANCHESTER, 1977: the picture of a period stutters erratically to a docile completion. The picture is inconclusive, blotchy, but considering circumstances the best possible. ...

The Human League/Vice Versa: The Now Society, Sheffield University, Sheffield
Live Review by Andy Gill, NME, July 1978
THE NOW Society, a university-based organisation, has been putting on gigs featuring local, predominantly experimental bands (such are the local mores) for some time now; first ...

Cabaret Voltaire: Sheffield
Live Review by Andy Gill, NME, August 1978
CABARET VOLTAIRE performances, if I can make a sweeping generalisation, are always interesting but never satisfying. Interesting because they're prepared to probe, often at the cost ...

Magazine: The Lyceum, London
Live Review by Ian Penman, NME, August 1978
MAGAZINE, MYTHS AND MIRAGES ...

Joy Division: Band On The Wall, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, NME, September 1978
THOSE FAMILIAR with this young quartet. mainly through their excitable appearance on the "Short Circuit" pretty package, and to a lesser extent with their self produced ...

Cabaret Voltaire: Sheffield – This Week's Leeds
Profile and Interview by Andy Gill, NME, September 1978
UNTIL LAST YEAR, Sheffield was undoubtedly the most musically inactive city in Britain. For a city with over half a million people, the paucity of small ...

Joy Division: Band on the Wall, Manchester
Live Review by Mick Middles, Sounds, September 1978
IT WAS during the unforgettable summer of '77 that I had my first encounter with Joy Division (then named Warsaw). Through a steamy Electric Circus Sunday ...

Wire: But Obviously It Isn't
Interview by Andy Gill, NME, September 1978
"Well it's alright just listen
Can't wait for 78
God those r.p.m.
Can't wait for them
Don't just watch
Hours happen
Get in there kid
And snap them."
– Wire, 'It's So Obvious' ...

pragVEC: Another Strange, New And Enticing Pop Group
Profile and Interview by Ian Penman, NME, October 1978
A NEW extended play record to enthuse about. A new band to sell to you. Their name is pragVEC; the four tracks they've recorded are ‘Existential’, ...

The Pop Group/Nico/Linton Kwesi Johnson/Cabaret Voltaire: An Appraisal Of 'Next Year's Thing'
Live Review by Paul Morley, NME, October 1978
The Pop Group/Nico/Linton Kwesi Johnson/Cabaret Voltaire: Electric Ballroom, London ...

The Pop Group/LKJ/Nico/Cab Voltaire
Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, October 1978
Disorder by juxtaposition. Subversion by paradox. Nothing is as simple as we're told. New feelings. ...

Joy Division
Interview by Mick Middles, Sounds, November 1978
THROB,THROB, THROB, THROB. "Hey Miss, a bottle of Newcastle please, what? Oh, a bottle of Pils then." THROB, THROB, THROB, THROB. ...

Howard Devoto: Calm And Confusion
Interview by Paul Morley, Ian Penman, NME, December 1978
WERE YOU a wimp at school?
I wouldn't say I was a wimp. I think I did get bullied. ...

The Subway Sect: War Poet of The Modern World
Interview by Paul Morley, NME, December 1978
Old conceptions justified
Tradition stays in tune
You make guitars talk information
That tells you what to do
The lines that hit me
Again and again
Afraid to take a stroll
Off the ...

Public Image Ltd: Public Image
Review by Simon Frith, Melody Maker, December 1978
"I don't agree with bands who make records to please audiences." (Johnny ...

Siouxsie and the Banshees
Interview by Paul Morley, NME, December 1978
"Have a competition in the NME. In less than a hundred words, what do they get out of Siouxsie and the Banshees?" (Siouxsie Sioux) ...

Public Image Ltd
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, December 1978
JOHN LYDON lives in the upper maisonette of the end terrace of a row of sturdily built Victorian houses on the Fulham/Chelsea border. He picked it ...

Throbbing Gristle: D.O.A. (Industrial)
Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, December 1978
THE UNDERGROWTH OF pop...Take the mechanics of the situation as being something like this: you have a multi-million dollar industry, which has established channels whereby the ...

The Mekons: Blows Against Individuation
Profile and Interview by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, February 1979
The Mekons insist they're just a by-product of confusion. But 'intervention', a.k.a. 'going commercial', looms. ...

The Pop Group: First Steps In The Primal Skank
Report and Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, March 1979
Tribal customs live on, even in the era of Afterpunk. RICHARD WILLIAMS investigates The Pop Group. ...

The Mekons/The Fall/Human League/Gang Of Four/Stiff Little Fingers: The Lyceum, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, March 1979
AND THE STARS look very different today... For all practical rock purposes, we may as well own up that we are now living in the eighties. ...

Gang of Four: Dialectics Meet Disco
Essay by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, May 1979
This is the year of the second coming of British art-rock – although the new art-rockers won't admit it. MARY HARRON strips away the modish veils ...

Gang of Four: The Gang's All Here
Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, June 1979
...WELL ALMOST, AS GARRY BUSHELL DISCOVERS DURING A DRUNKEN DISCUSSION WITH THE GANG OF FOUR ...

Throbbing Gristle: The Factory, Manchester
Live Review by Mick Middles, Sounds, June 1979
WHEN I WAS watching Throbbing Gristle where were you? ...

The Private Life Of Public Image
Interview by Danny Baker, NME, June 1979
WHAT TIME IS it? It feels like five in the morning but it must be a lot later. Ugh, Jesus, I must be inside my own ...

The Pop Group: Idealists in Distress
Interview by Max Bell, NME, June 1979
They are young. They are talented. They are committed. They are now without a record company. 'So what seems to be the problem, boys?' asks Max ...

Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, July 1979
"To talk of life today is like talking of rope in the house of a hanged man." Where will it ...

Wire: 154 (Harvest)
Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, September 1979
WRAPPED IN an abstract minimal geo-deco sleeve (all straight lines and waves, pastel shades), with its own label and a "free" 45, the third Wire album ...

Gang of Four: Entertainment (EMI)
Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, October 1979
THE Four are ambitious; and so they accept the ...

Wire: Wider Vision
Interview by Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, October 1979
Wire don't sit comfortably in the publicity man's gullet. They're not easily categorised, seemingly spurning the hype-market. But they do conform in one way; they all ...

Public Image Ltd.: The Metal Box
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1979
FRIDAY EVENING in Chelsea and I'm looking for a house, panning the street on the odd numbers side. Nearly there and a door opens. Down the ...

The Fall: All Fall Down
Interview by Ian Penman, NME, January 1980
JUST ABOVE my typewriter on the mantlepiece is an eye-catching tube of 10 orange flavoured effervescent tablets. Each tablet contains 1g orange flavoured concentrated Vitamin C ...

The Mekons: Manchester Polytechnic, Manchester
Live Review by Mick Middles, Sounds, February 1980
I COULDN'T believe my ...

A Certain Ratio: The Graveyard And The Ballroom (Factory) ****
Review by Mick Middles, Sounds, February 1980
A CERTAIN Ratio (currently the hippest combo in Manchester) typify the approach, style, feel, and idealism of Factory Records. They are distant, difficult to touch and ...

Joy Division: Osbourne Club, Manchester
Live Review by Mick Middles, Sounds, March 1980
TO THE centre of the city in the night waiting for Joy Division. ...

Killing Joke
Profile and Interview by Peter Makowski, ZigZag, April 1980
MY FIRST sojourn into the pages of this fine mag and what a balls up. Cock up amundo, mate. ...

Public Image Ltd.: PiL in Hollywood
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, May 1980
HUDDLED ROUND the side with a crowd of disco dancers waiting for their fifteen minutes of fame, watching a fake Doobie Brothers run through their number ...

Vic Godard: Young Existentialist
Interview by Mick Middles, Sounds, July 1980
VIC GODARD makes Feargal Sharkey look like Gene Simmons. His normality is outrageous. When Vic Godard sits in his bedroom listening to Peter Skellern on his ...

A Certain Ratio: Failed CSE Rock!
Report and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, September 1980
WE LEAVE the grubby Hulme human hutch where some members of A Certain Ratio live. The view from this particular section of hutches is not completely ...

Echo & Bunnymen, U2, Delta 5: The Lyceum, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, September 1980
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN dwell in the magical land between life and art that is the territory of great rock'n'roll. Making music alone isn't enough to ...

Comsat Angels: Miracle Workers
Report and Interview by Andy Gill, NME, October 1980
"MILKY WAY – the gig you can do between tours!" Steve Fellows, singer, guitarist and lyricist with The Comsat Angels is right. There's very little sense ...

Au Pairs
Interview by Paul Morley, NME, October 1980
"THE TROUBLE with conversations like this," declares Pete, nodding sagely, knitting his eyebrows, as he refers to the complex peculiarities of a pop group who sustain ...

Killing Joke: The Killing Of Brother Paul
Interview by Paul Morley, NME, November 1980
IF I HAD heard how Jaz had let Youth know that I'd arrived, I wouldn't have bothered with the interview. Photographer Ray Stevenson told me later ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Welcome To The Bunnyhouse
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, November 1980
WHEN ECHO And The Bunnymen end their British tour with a date at Liverpool University, the Mad Hatter photographer (Joe Stevens) and I travel up to ...

ABC, Essential Bop, Restricted Code: Bristol Bop! Glasgow Pop! It's As Easy As ABC!
Profile and Interview by Paul Morley, NME, December 1980
LEMON SUCKING refers to the practice of sucking in the cheeks to affect the 'rock'n'roll' wasted look. Chewing, or neck bending, refers, I would suppose, to ...

Gang Of Four: Solid Gold
Review by Van Gosse, Village Voice, April 1981
GANG OF FOUR called their first album Entertainment!, as if shouting from the rooftops that it wasn't. ...

Throbbing Gristle Makes L.A. Debut
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, May 1981
Throbbing Gristle: Veteran's Auditorium, Culver City, CA ...

Scritti Politti
Profile and Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, November 1981
From the underground...To the charts? We want hits, say the former cult heroes. Quite right, says Ian Birch. ...

Scritti Politti
Interview by Tony Fletcher, Jamming!, 1982
THE ...

The Mekons Story (CNT) 1982
Sleevenotes by Lester Bangs, CNT Records, 1982
THE MEKONS are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll. They are also the finest artists ever to have graced this admittedly ...

Poison Girls: Total Exposure (xntrix)***½
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, January 1982
POISON GIRLS' music doesn't tell you anything new. Barely evolved from the ugly end of punk it grinds or charges along with an oppressive grimness I've ...

A Certain Ratio: Sextet (Factory)
Review by Chris Bohn, NME, January 1982
THE A CERTAIN RATIO anatomy of melancholy breaks down to a curdling rattle of bones, distant whistles, a few whispered words and a trickle of flat ...

Pigbag: Dr Heckle And Mr Jive (Y)
Review by Andy Gill, NME, March 1982
THE ACREAGE of cloth in Pigbag's collective trousers has been measured and, I'm afraid, found wanting. This is, apparently, an issue of some importance in the ...

The Fall: Hex Education
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, May 1982
COINCIDENCE AND surprise save the world from going flat! Like, the same issue of Artforum which boasts that superb Laurie Anderson flexidisc also has an art/rock ...

Gang of Four: Songs Of The Free (EMI)
Review by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, May 1982
AND SO the most highly-evolved piss artists in "rock" came to release their third LP. ...

Scritti Politti: The Sweetest Groove
Interview by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, May 1982
Everything's gone GREEN, the voice of SCRITTI POLITTI tells Lynden Barber ...

Cabaret Voltaire: 2X45 (Rough Trade)
Review by Richard Cook, NME, June 1982
WHAT IS least novel – and perhaps least satisfying – about the ascendancy of synthi-pop is its dependence on romantic humanist elements. Kraftwerk's love of melody, ...

23 Skidoo — Don't Play Funky For Me!
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, June 1982
"You see, the people who constantly listen to pop have their ears degraded by wrong style and reiteration, senseless reiteration..."
– Unity Mitford, taped on 'Porno ...

Rip Rig & Panic
Interview by Richard Cook, NME, June 1982
"OH NOOOO! Look at this one! Look at Springer's head!" ...

Au Pairs: Sex Without Stress
Interview by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, June 1982
HOW COULD they have known? The caption under the BBC1 column in the Sunday Times television listings for May 30 was unmistakeable. "6.10. Sense And Sensibility: ...

Cabaret Voltaire
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, June 1982
"THERE'S 70 million people on earth." "Where are they hiding?" ...

Fehlfarben: Before The Deluge
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, July 1982
UNDER THE nuclear shadow, something stirs. Looking west, it decides to reject the old men's fear and guilt. If the sands of time are turning radioactive, ...

Scientific Americans: Load And Go!; Human Switchboard: Coffee Break and other ROIR tapes
Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, August 1982
TIME FOR another recharge from my choice in chutzpah-driven indies: Neil ‘Let’s Get This Party Started’ Cooper’s Reach Out International Records (ROIR). Former booking agent Cooper’s ...

Scritti Politti: Songs To Remember (Rough Trade)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, September 1982
HERE IT IS: Scritti Politti's greatest hits. Let me assure you that this isn't a problem (I like albums with lots of singles on) and that ...

A Certain Ratio: I'd Like To See You Again (Factory)
Review by Leyla Sanai, NME, December 1982
I REALLY wanted to love the new A Certain Ratio LP. After countless plays I've accepted it's not going to click the way I'd hoped. A ...

The Raincoats: The Kitchen Tapes/The Bush Tetras: Wild Things!/Johnny Thunders: Too Much Monkey Business
Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, April 1983
THE LATEST trio of ROIR cassettes expands the label's category of historical documentation – a division which offers some excuse for the fact that Reachout tapes ...

SPK: Sound Stalkers
Interview by Chris Bohn, NME, April 1983
Maniac cab driver Chris Bohn takes you on a ride to the terminal zone with the New Zealand / Chinese alliance called SPK ...

Cabaret Voltaire: Taxi To The Terminal Zone
Interview by Andy Gill, NME, July 1983
"The way I see it is capitalism's a sponge – consider yourself to squeeze it. Squeeze it while it's here, be prepared to pick up the ...

New Order: Out Of Order
Report by Mick Middles, Sounds, July 1983
"How I wish you were here with me now."
– New Order, 'In A Lonely ...

Gang of Four: Hard (EMI)
Review by Mat Snow, NME, September 1983
THESE DAYS the barricades are thinly manned. Back in '79 Rock was Against Everything and The Gang Of 4 provided a soundtrack of surgical firepower and ...

Mission of Burma
Interview by Blake Gumprecht, Alternative America, Winter 1983
COMING TOGETHER in Boston four years ago, Mission of Burma's first single, 'Academy Fight Song', was released by Ace of Hearts a year after the band's ...

Scritti Politti: Say A Little Prayer For Green
Interview by Richard Cook, NME, March 1984
DEEP END, feet first. Is it true you're Mr Paranoid? ...

PiL: This Is What You Want, This Is What You Get (Virgin)
Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, July 1984
JUST when you thought you had the bugger pinned down as a spent force, a wasted opportunist and black and white photocopy of a colourful historical ...

Public Image Ltd.: This Is What You Want, This Is What You Get (Virgin)
Review by Biba Kopf, NME, August 1984
DEAR JOHN, the big kiss off: ...

Cabaret Voltaire: Rock With The Digital Cavemen
Interview by Richard Cook, NME, November 1984
AS ONE Voltaire remarks, it's good weather for journalism: weary skies stuffed with rainclouds over Sheffield and its hills. After London the gentle pace of this ...

Scritti Politti: Psyched Out
Interview by Gavin Martin, NME, June 1985
THE TWO singers, a tall fresh-faced Welshman and a soft spoken bleary-eyed Mancunian, felt ...

John Lydon: This Is What You Get
Interview by Paul Morley, NME, February 1986
THIS IS the beginning of an interview with the John Lydon who has drunk seven cans of Red Stripe lager, after breakfasting on oysters. ...

John Lydon: Apocalypse New
Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, May 1986
SOMEBODY told me John Lydon liked a drink. And this was indeed a large crumb of comfort. Suddenly, it was possible to establish some common interest. ...

John Lydon: I Cry Alone
Interview by Jack Barron, NME, October 1987
DAY-GLO PINK mini-dreads erupt from his scalp like antennae made of candyfloss. Iceberg blue eyes stare from cigarette ash skin. A smirk. A belch of indignation. ...

AUDIO: Scritti Politti's Green (1988)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, January 1988
Scritti's Green talks about making Provision, meeting Jacques Derrida, working with Miles Davis, Roger Troutman and Chaka Khan, hanging out with Kraftwerk and struggling to come ...

Negativland: Escape From Noise (Seeland)
Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, May 1988
DOORS SLAM/PEOPLE yell/Children scream/Sirens whine/Trucks rumble and roar/And rock music blares, as Negativland asks the musical question "Is there any escape from ...

AUDIO: PiL in Estonia, part 1 (1988)
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, August 1988
Live Aid? Bollocks! Mat Snow battles the airport tannoy to hear pearls of wisdom from John Lydon and band. ...

The Picturesque Sound of Pere Ubu
Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, September 1988
IS THE ROCK world finally ready for Pere Ubu? The critically acclaimed sextet from Cleveland, which finishes a two-night stand at Club Lingerie tonight – its ...

John Lydon: …Heeere's Johnny!
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, July 1989
IN THE BAR OF the North London rehearsal studio complex, John Lydon, wearing a typically loud shirt, a pair of unorthodox dark spectacles and the kind ...

Division On: Joy Division
Interview by Len Brown, NME, May 1990
"FUNNY. I WAS IN the car with Barney the other day and I just hit Unknown Pleasures into the CD. And Barney shouted, 'Get that f... ...

Psychic TV: In Thee Oblique Midwinter
Interview by Mark Sinker, City Limits, December 1990
JUST LIKE a dilemma, present-day Paganism has two horns: the old lore and its new form. Except it isn't always entirely clear whether those horns both ...

Gang of Four: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century (Warner Bros.)
Review by Tom Graves, Rock and Roll Disc, February 1991
IF YOU HAPPEN to own a copy of The Trouser Press Guide to New Wave Records, you can open it to just about any page, point ...

Mark E Smith: Not Falling, Soaring
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Vox, June 1991
MARK E SMITH'S REPUTATION precedes him like massed stormtroopers on the horizon. Fourteen years on, the Fall frontman still sets everyone on edge, either in the ...

Cabaret Voltaire's Record Collection
Interview by Andy Gill, Q, June 1992
Spookily delayed trumpets, primitive drum machines, bone-shaking bass, the original "bleep" record, loads of Germans and "Elvis gone wrong". Earplugs at the ready, Andy Gill has ...

The Fall: 15 Years Of Fame
Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, May 1993
THERE'S SOMETHING TREMENDOUSLY reassuring about the fact that The Fall, and Mark E Smith, exist. ...

PiL: Three's Company…
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, January 2000
David Stubbs takes a shine to the mesmerising remorselessness of PUBLIC IMAGE LTD's post-punk Metal Box... ...

Cabaret Voltaire
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, February 2000
THE CROWD ARE ALREADY PRETTY fired up when the steamingly drunk weirdo trapped in flashing fairy lights tosses his guitar into the audience. This is the ...

Magazine: Maybe It's Right to Be Nervous Now (Virgin, 3CDs) ****
Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, September 2000
FOLLOWING AN initial period of liberation, punk, like all revolutionary forces, soon substituted new orthodoxies for those it had blown apart. ...

Howard Devoto: Shot By Both Sides
Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, November 2000
AND THEN, in 1976, when Howard Devoto was 24, he wrote and recorded four fast songs with the group Buzzcocks, and they became the EP Spiral ...

23 Skidoo
Retrospective and Interview by Bill Brewster, Jockey Slut, 2001
"What man is at ease in his Inn?
Get out.
Wide is the world and cold.
Get out.
Thou hast become an initiate.
Get out."
Aleister Crowley – 'Skidoo', chapter 23 of ...

Scritti Politti: Everything's Gone Green
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 2001
David Stubbs on Scritti Politti's subversive pop-soul masterpiece, Songs To Remember ...

New Order: Move Festival, Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester
Live Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, September 2002
SINCE SETTING aside old bones of contention four years ago, New Order's Indian summer has seemed one long, breathless, last-skitter-of-the-dice party. ...

Various Artists: Yes New York/New York Noise/Post Punk 01
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2003
AH MANHATTAN, so much to answer for – and so in vogue as a rock metropolis after decades as a Hip Hop Mecca. Yes New York ...

Public Image Ltd.: Full Metal Jacket – Metal Box
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Fact, January 2004
With the curtain closed on the Sex Pistols pantomime, in 1978 a still-searing John Lydon teamed up with Jah Wobble and Keith Levene to form PiL. ...

Maxima Moralis: Relections from a Healing Mind – Cleveland, Independent Music, and the 1970s; Part 2
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, November 2004
IV. Pere Ubu: Christ's Agony, Cabarets, and Scary Movies ...

The Gang's All Here – Again
Retrospective and Interview by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, January 2005
LIKE THE VELVET Underground a decade before them, Gang of Four were one of those bands who never had a proper hit but who created a ...

John Rotten Lydon in a Few Words
Essay by Glenn O'Brien, V-Man, Spring 2005
OKAY, JUST THINKING about him, I got a powerful yen to listen to John Lydon's music and as the vinyl's all out at the country house ...

Ian Curtis
Book Excerpt by Mick Middles, Linsday Reade, Torn Apart: The Life of Ian Curtis (Omnibus Press), 2006
The authors of this new biography are uniquely qualified to reveal the extraordinary events surrounding the life and death of Ian Curtis. ...