Miscellaneous - April 2016

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published: 10 / 4 / 2016

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Hello and welcome to the April edition of the Pennyblackmusic Magazine. This month sees both

Hello and welcome to the April edition of the Pennyblackmusic Magazine. This month sees both farewells and new beginnings. It has been fourteen years since we first spoke to Richmond Fontaine at the time of their 2002 fourth album, 'Winnemucca'. In the years since then they have grown to become one of the major acts in the Americana movement and won much acclaim for their albums 'Post to Wire' (2004) and 'The Fitzgerald' (2006) in particular, while front man Willy Vlautin has also started a dual career and earned equal applause as a novelist. Now the band have announced their decision to split up with their tenth album, 'You Can't Go Back if There's Nothing To Go Back To'. In our lead interview this month Vlautin speaks to us about the amicable reasons behind the split, the group's farewell tour and the stories of the down-on-the-luck characters that inhabit 'You Can't Go Back if There's Nothing To Go Back To', which he has described as a 'middle-aged' record. Elsewhere we are publishing our first ever fiction. In a four part piece, two parts which we are publishing this month and two parts next month, Owen Peters offers a story/parable 'We Need To Talk About Cerys', which tells of a marriage gently disintegrating as the years go by and the further effect of Cerys Matthews'6 Music radio show on it. Amongst our other main articles this month, we have an interview with legendary DJ Bob Harris, who speaks to Nick Dent-Robinson about his first Americana festival, Under The Apple Tree. Other interviews with established acts include singer-songwriter and long-term Who guitarist Simon Townshend; 60's cult stars the Zombies about their long career and forthcoming appearance at the Cornbury Festival in Oxfordshire, and Leeds-based musician Chris Wade on his psychedelic/folk-influenced project Dodson and Fogg's ninth album,'Roaming'. Amongst newer acts we speak to much acclaimed Mad Made, the hard-touring alternative pop trio which is fronted by Johnny Marr's son Nile about their debut album, 'TV Broke My Brain'; young Oxfordshire-based singer-songwriter Megan Henwood on her controversial second album,'Head, Heart, Hands'; Nottingham noise rockers HECK about their forced change of name from Baby Godzilla and 'Instructions', their debut album under their new moniker; and Glasgow-based electro-acoustic duo Not Forgotten Girl about their first EP, 'Heading East'. Sukie Smith from London-based act Madam -always one of our favourite acts -talks through her new video for 'When I Met You', the first single from 'Back to the Sea', the band's forthcoming third album. There is an obituary of George Martin. In 'Ten Songs That Made Me Love...' Adrian Janes examines his favourite songs by Jeff Buckley, while in our 'Re:View' section Keith How writes of 'San Francisco Earthquake', a new compilation of long lost recordings from Uther Pendragon, an unknown late 1960's/1970's Californian psychedelic/rock band. There are also twenty-four album and single reviews. In our previous reviews only update in mid March we ran another fourteen album and single reviews. We also have a Bands Night at the Sebright Arms in Bethnal Green on Friday 15th April, which will be a showcase for the excellent Edinburgh-based label Stereogram Recordings. The durable London-based group the Band of Holy Joy, who have played our Bands’ Nights twice before and who signed to Stereogram last year, will be co-headlining with Edinburgh alternative rock outfit the Cathode Ray, while the support act will be singer-songwriter Roy Moller who has been described by 6 Music’s Marc Riley as “Scotland’s best kept secret”. Tickets for this gig are available in advance at www.wegottickets.com for £8 and on the door for £10. Thank you to Darren ASTON, Carl Bookstein, Malcolm Carter, Nicky Crewe, Dastardly, Nick Dent-Robinson, Anthony Dhanendran, Dixie Ernill, Cat Goodwin, Dave Goodwin, John Hodgkinson, Keith How, Ben Howarth, Adrian Huggins, Adrian Janes, Richard Lewis, Mary O'Meara, Erick Mertz, Owen Peters, Jamie Rowland, Mark Rowland, Billy Seagrave, Dominic Simpson, Anthony Strutt, Lisa Torem, Paul Waller and Denzil Watson, all of whom have contributed to this edition. Special thanks to our webmaster Richard Banks. We will be back at the middle of the month with an album and singles reviews only update, and then in early May with a full update with interviews, features, live reviews and more album and single reviews. We hope to feature interviews then with the Sophia, Yes, Blancmange, the Filthy Tongues, Ringo Deathstarr and Brad Elvis. Please don’t forget to check out our regular Facebook and Twitter updates. Thank you as always for reading Pennyblackmusic. John Clarkson Magazine Editor www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk Email: john.clarkson@pennyblackmusic.co.uk

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