Simon Goddard – Mozipedia
By Craig Smith • Aug 5th, 2009 • Category: Album Reviews, Books and otherThe ultimate bible for Morrissey and Smiths fans, Mozipedia sorts the Suedehead from the Southpaw.
Archives for the ‘Books and other’ Category
Robert Lurie – No Certainty Attached
By Craig Smith • May 27th, 2009 • Category: Books and otherSlighty less than groundbreaking, but no less worth, biography off Australian poet, musician and icon, Steve Kilbey of The Church.
Luke Haines – Bad Vibes
By Craig Smith • Feb 19th, 2009 • Category: Album Reviews, Books and otherA timely assault on the looming spectre of the Britpop revival, Luke Haines unleashes his arsenal and takes aim. Camden, look out.
Mark E. Smith – Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith
By Craig Smith • Jun 7th, 2008 • Category: Books and otherViking, 2008 It begins at the end, or the supposed end, where having retired the old guard for a succession of young guns, Mark E. Smith faces up to a musician mutiny on The Fall’s 2006 tour of America, where the disgruntled boys quit en masse four dates in. Were it for the peculiar placing [...]
Dean Wareham – Black Postcards
By Craig Smith • Mar 11th, 2008 • Category: Books and otherPenguin Press, 2008 “I don’t wanna stay at your party/I don’t want talk to your friends/I don’t wanna vote for your president/I just wanna be your tugboat captain.” Over simple chords, and a shaky voice listing in an ocean of reverb, it was with those words that first signalled the arrival of a little known [...]
