Bob Fischer – Electronic Sound

9 minute read

The Dook: Long Live The Dook

byBob Fischer

Jim Noir is dead. For 20 years, the enigmatic alter ego of Alan Peter Roberts has been the purveyor of perfectly wonky retro-pop. Fear not, though – the man beneath the bowler hat is about to relaunch himself as electronic maestro The Dook

TTime Machine

5 minute read

Two Days With David Bowie

byBob Fischer

Reece Dinsdale remembers two surreal days spent filming in a Mercedes limousine with David Bowie in January 1993

LLong Reads

5 minute read

Rudolf Rocker: Revenge Is Sweet

byBob Fischer

Take brothers Mark and Steve Goodall, add BAFTA-winning screenwriter Jeremy Dyson, and you have the original line-up of Rudolf Rocker – purveyors of synth-fuelled Yorkshire pop

PPulse

2 minute read

John Cornwell

byBob Fischer

Cosmic post-rock from planet Teesside

UUnder The Influence

5 minute read

Deb Grant

byBob Fischer

With BBC Radio’s annual 6 Music Festival just around the corner, presenter Deb Grant reveals the formative influences that led her to a life on the airwaves

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Library Of The Occult,: The Devil Rides In

byBob Fischer

Tom McDowell is the mysterious dark overlord behind Library Of The Occult, a label devoted to mixing classic synth sounds with the feel of his favourite 1970s horror films

TTime Machine

5 minute read

Cultural Amnesia

byBob Fischer

In 1979, Oxfordshire schoolboys Ben Norland, Gerard Greenway and John Peacock formed experimental DIY trio Cultural Amnesia. They revisit the excitement of the early 80s “cassette culture” scene, 47 years on

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Keith Seatman: Outside The Box

byBob Fischer

He’s the psychedelic alchemist slowly building his own world of sepia-tinted weirdness. So what can we see through Keith Seatman’s window today?

TTime Machine

5 minute read

Rupert Hine ‘The Shout’

byBob Fischer

In 1978, bizarre British horror film ‘The Shout’ boasted startling “electronics & effects” courtesy of musical polymath Rupert Hine. With the score now released for the first time, Fay Hine, Buried Treasure label boss Alan Gubby and writer Jon Collins tell his story

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Sarah Nixey: Going Coastal

byBob Fischer

She was – and soon will be again – the enigmatic chanteuse with Black Box Recorder. In the meantime, Sarah Nixey’s new solo album ‘Sea Fever’, created on the coastline of her native Dorset, is a beautiful, wintry rumination on change and loss