Sublime reads…
Published in
One memorable television highlight from the 1970s was the situation comedy The Good Life. The set-up was simple: in the suburb of Surbiton in Surrey, England, a pair of couples…
Art & Culture
Liquid Assets
Published in
Andrei Molodkin sits opposite me in a comfortable office in the heart of Victoria. Ironically, he laughs, it belongs to a Russian oil tycoon who happens to be sponsoring his…
Kings Of Indie
Published in
And it wasn’t just King Creosote’s albums. Five years after its inception, news of Kenny Anderson’s homespun recordlabel had spread. More and more of his friends, and then the friends’…
New Order
Published in
The global value of smaller and self-publishing companies was estimated at £7.3bn by the last Book Industry Study Group report, Under the Radar, with the self-publishing sector growing at 30%…
About A Boy
Published in
Aside from the likes of the two Jameses, other talent is emerging,among them Eugene McGuinness, whose debut mini-album Early Learnings of Eugene McGuinness was released in 2007 on the…
Moments Of Fortune
Published in
Sublime: I was taken aback when I saw the album title. I thought, I didn’t know Tracy Chapman could be so sarcastic! Tracey Chapman: Good! That’s one of the reactions…
Mondongo, Telling Tales
Published in
‘There are many ways in which the thing I am trying in vain to say may be tried in vain to be said’ Samuel Beckett: Three Dialogues When I first…
Blood Brothers
Published in
And it wasn’t just the music. The Kings had a good story to tell, too. The brothers Followill – Caleb, vocals and rhythm guitar; Nathan, drums – had spent…
Tricky Kid Rises Again
Published in
Tricky himself seemed a troubled soul, given to dramatic mood swings and a tendency to antagonise those around him. Hence the name – initially a nickname – Tricky. Fourteen years…
