Jah Wobble ‘Bomba’
Jah Wobble talks us through his 1990 Invaders Of The Heart epic ‘Bomba’
Richard H Kirk
Resident archivist Jack Dangers rediscovers an old favourite by sorely-missed Cabaret Voltaire mainstay Richard H Kirk, and it’s on cassette…
12th Isle
Location: Scotland Est: 2014-2016
Kings of Convenience ‘Versus’ (Source, 2001)
‘Quiet Is The New Loud’, the debut album from Norway’s Kings Of Convenience – Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe – is the gentlest strum and pluck of a record, and the Bergen duo were cast very much from an old school folk tradition.
Ken Downie
The Black Dog’s Ken Downie pulls up a chair and faces down the quick-fire question machine
Summer Holiday
Can you be deported from Whitby?
Wolfgang Flür ‘Magazine 1’ (Cherry Red)
You can take Wolfgang Flür out of Kraftwerk (he removed himself, frustrated and unfulfilled, in 1987), but you……
Soft Cell: Cell Mates
Splitting up, getting back together (twice), a farewell gig that wasn’t quite goodbye… and now Soft Cell are making another welcome return. Marc Almond and Dave Ball remain as thick as thieves and ‘Happiness Not Included’, their first album for 20 years, shows why the duo are still the undisputed kings of twisted synthpop
Severed Heads: Fast Forward
While he might be curating an online archive for his maverick Severed Heads outfit, Tom Ellard is not a man to rest on his laurels. “Don’t you want to jump full-bodied into the future?” he asks
Michael Rother and Vittoria Maccabruni: The Light Fantastic
Recorded in a Pisa living room rather than his Forst home studio where he’s worked for five decades, ‘As Long As The Light’, Michael Rother’s collaboration with partner Vittoria Maccabruni, fizzes with life