NNeeds Must Read More 2 minute read ‘I Can’t Stay Away’byKris Needs Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: ‘I Can’t Stay Away’ by Ragtyme Featuring Byron Stingily
LLong Reads Read More 9 minute read Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan: North by NorthwestbyBob Fischer Concrete dreams and brutalist ideals… Gordon Chapman-Fox is Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan. His third album, ‘Districts, Roads, Open Space’, has just been released and he’s here to talk about it. What’s more, he’s brought sandwiches
LLandmarks Read More 5 minute read TestonebyRob Harris Sweet Exorcist’s Richard Barratt – aka DJ Parrot/Crooked Man – recalls the making of 1990’s essential bleep techno cut, ‘Testone’, with Richard H Kirk
BBanging On Read More 3 minute read PodcastsbyFat Roland This month, our intrepid columnist gets to grips with podcasts – or not
BBrief Encounters Read More 2 minute read Helen GanyabyNeil Mason Songwriter extraordinaire Helen Ganya tackles our quick-fire questions
BBuried Treasure Read More 2 minute read Sandra Cross ‘The MMs Bar Recordings’ (Trunk, 2011)bySpenser Tomson As someone who writes about a lot of weird music, I can get desensitised to it. The soundtrack to an imaginary film about school dinners? Meh.
FFirst and Last and Always Read More 2 minute read Richie CulverbyClaire Francis Artist and musician Richie Culver on the first and last albums he bought, and an all-time favourite