Alison Cotton: A Northern Soul

Their new album, ‘Home Counties’, not only celebrates the leafy commuter belt burbs of their formative years, it also sees Saint Etienne getting back into the electronic groove of their prime

With releases from the likes of Polypores and Concretism, Castles In Space is one of the UK’s most essential independent labels. And it all started in the unlikely setting of the bar at Barrow Association Football Club

The tragic tale of the original pop Svengali would be fantastic enough even without the black magic, gangland threats and a pill-popping climax of paranoia, rapidly declining fortunes and murder… through a series of interviews, conducted in the late 1990s and early 2000s, many with collaborators, artists and assistants who have since died, we tell the incredible tale of Joe Meek 

Cabaret Voltaire’s Richard H Kirk serves up a raft of his solo work stretching back to 1974. Brace yourself for not one but two mind-boggling boxsets collections…

In July 2017, Hendrik Otremba met Can’s Holger Czukay in the old Weilerswist cinema where he’d lived and worked since the 1970s. The pair sat down to discuss his retrospective ‘Cinema’ boxset, curated by Otremba and set for release this month to mark his 80th birthday. Shortly after their chat, Czukay’s wife passed away, just a few weeks later, on 5 September, Holger died too. This was his final interview

My conversation with Tony Wilson took place on Saturday 29 October 2005 at his loft apartment on Little Peter Street in Manchester.