Fukiya & Miyagi: “We’ve never even been to Japan”
What’s in a name? Quite a lot it’d seem if you are as misunderstood as Fujiya & Miyagi, whose warm, thrumming tunes are… well, what? we do our best to get to the bottom of the whole thing
A Certain Ratio: ACR CAR MCR
With their back catalogue being lovingly reissued via Mute, we pile into a car for a guided tour of the Manchester hotspots that shaped the influential sound of A Certain Ratio… fasten your seatbelts
1978
It was the year that the Taito Corporation in Tokyo released its ‘Space Invaders’ arcade game. It was the year that Douglas Adams’ ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’ was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4. And it was the year that the punk rock revolution opened the way for some of the most innovative and exciting music ever.
Andy McCluskey
OMD frontman Andy Mccluskey shares the music, men, maladies and machines that make him tick
Finitribe
In 1989, Finitribe landed themselves in hot water with a provocative campaign to promote their ‘Animal Farm’ EP. Frontman Davie Miller relives the day the corporate lawyers came a-knocking
Gary Daly ‘Black Man Ray’
China Crisis’ Gary Daly looks back on the genesis of their 1985 hit ‘Black Man Ray’, which featured the late, great Walter Becker at the controls
Bill Bailey
Confused hippy and part-troll, Bill Bailey lifts the lid on some of his formative influences…
Honkmeister 4000
They’ll be talking about this in the future. It’s the looking forward not backwards Xmas special. Prepare to gawp at the shape of things to come…
Dominatrix ‘The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight’
A huge hit on New York’s 80s club scene, Dominatrix’s ‘The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight’ was an irresistible combination of new wave and electro. Mastermind Stuart Argabright tells us how it all came about
Seefeel ‘Quique’ (Too Pure, 1993)
As a fledgling fanzine writer, it seemed implausible that anyone would send anything resembling decent music to an outpost on the Wirral.