Miscellaneous - July 2007
by Admin
published: 12 / 7 / 2007
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Hello and welcome to the July edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine. June was very much a month of both reformation and comeback. If you look at our live section this month, you will see that almost 35 years after he released it Lou Reed toured his classic ‘Berlin’
Hello and welcome to the July edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine. June was very much a month of both reformation and comeback. If you look at our live section this month, you will see that almost 35 years after he released it Lou Reed toured his classic ‘Berlin’ album for the first time. The under-rated Sheffield new wave band Artery played their first gigs since breaking up in 1985. Former 13th Floor Elevators front man and 60’s psychedelic pioneer Roky Erikson played his first ever gig in Britain and even the Electric Six played their first UK tour since having a big hit with ‘Gay Bar’ a few years ago. We have got reviews of all those shows in this month’s edition and are also running reviews of shows by NFD, Grinderman and Suicide, the Ripps, the Fiery Furnaces, Stuffy/The Fuses, Rhombus, the Mongrels, Asobi Seksu, Marillion and Sunset Rubdown. In our interviews section, our lead interview this month is with post rockers Mogwai. Sarah Johnson speaks to the group’s leader, Stuart Braithwaite, about the band’s sixth album which is due for release next year and the group’s strong roots in their native Glasgow. Our other headline interviews are with Marillion who have just released their latest album ‘Somewhere Else’, solo artist and ex-Dream Syndicate frontman Steve Wynn about his Danny and Dusty side project and New York based art rockers Asobi Seksu. There are also interviews with the ever chaotic Bearsuit, singer-songwriter Polly Paulusma, Cardiff-based bubblegum punks the Loves and one time Big Dish frontman Steven Lindsay. We are also running the third and final part of our interview with former Damned and Lords of the New Church guitarist Brian James. In our profiles section we are reviving a Pennyblackmusic interview from 2001 with former guitarist and singer Stuart Moxham with the seminal Young Marble Giants, who have just had released with an extra CD their one and only album from 1980, ‘Colossal Youth’. We are also running in the profiles section film reviews of ‘Transylvania’, which makes a strong use of gypsy folk music in its plot, and ’30 Century Man’ which is a documentary about Scott Walker. In our features section, Anthony Dhanendran in our ‘Soundtrack of Our Lives’ column, in which our writers write about the personal impact of music on their lives tells of his discovery of the Jam during the Britpop era. Ben Howarth asks, with the closure of Fopp, and both HMV and EMI admitting to losing money, if the music industry is really in crisis in his ‘Condemned to Rock ‘n’ Roll’ column, and we are also running the third and final part of Adam Wood’s history of 1970’s punk. There are also Photoscapes of the Download Festival, which is spread across two parts that is being featured concurrently, and a show by Watford-based punk/hardcore act Gallows in Portsmouth. We have to unfortunately put on hold the second part of Phil Vincent’s new ‘Tales of the Sound Desk’ column which tells of his experience in Europe with an up-and-coming band, as he is on tour at the moment, but that will be back next month. In our Re : View section, in which we look back on albums from the past, there are reviews of Steven Ray Vaughan’s 1983 blues classic, ‘Texas Fever’, and Sonic Youth’s 1988 ‘Daydream Nation’, which has just been released with an additional CD of tracks. Our Website of the Month is Leicester Bangs, a new music website. We are also running 32 album and single reviews. We put on-line a further 28 reviews in our mid-month up-date in June. We have a new writer and photographer this month, Stuart Leech. Stuart is based near St Albans and has contributed four reviews to this month’s edition. Thank you to Stuart. Thank you to Aaron Brown, Malcolm Carter, Andrew Carver, Daniel Cressey, Anthony Dhanendran, Russell Ferguson, Tommy Gunnarsson, Alex Halls, Ben Howarth, Adrian Huggins, Sarah Johnson, Chris Jones, Geraint Jones, Sarah Maybank, Sarah Mwangi, Chris O’ Toole, Cyrus Pearce, Paul Raven, Jon Rogers, Mark Rowland, Maarten Schiethart, Anthony Strutt, Helen Tipping, Andy Vincent, Denzil Watson, and Adam Wood, all of whom have contributed articles and reviews to either this edition or the mid-month June reviews up-date. Thank you also to Katie Anderson who contributed the Download festival and Gallows Photoscapes, Thanks as well to Richard Banks for all his support at Pennyblackmusic HQ. We will be back in mid July with another albums and singles reviews up-date, and then in August with a full up-date. We hope to be running interviews then with Billy Childish, Richmond Fontaine, Strung Out, Friends, the Strange Death of Liberal England, Simon J. Alpin, Karma Deva, Bob Frank and John Murray and Stillman. There will also an interview with filmmaker Tony Palmer about his groundbreaking 1986 documentary, ‘All My Loving’. There will be more in the 'Profiles'. We will also have another 'Re : View' and 'Website of the Month' and more features, live reviews and album and single reviews. Thank you as always for reading. John Clarkson Magazine Editor www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk
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