“You just have to dig a little deeper”: An interview with Tape Club Records
The UK based Tape Club Records, set up in 2006, encompasses DIY record producing at its most creative and demonstrates a motivation to share an exciting variation of diamond find music, in a…
“It’s all jumbled up into something…” An interview with Ghostpoet
The last year or so has been a self-professed “whirlwind” for 28 year old South Londoner Obaro Ejimiwe, aka Ghostpoet. Huge exposure with the release of his debut album Peanut Butter Blues and…
Interview: Grace Petrie and Grassroots Protest Music in the UK
From the student protests to the London Riots the last time the UK experienced such visible and sustained period of civil unrest came during the 1980s; and the potential to provide a soundtrack…
The Life and Death of Ziggy Stardust
“I fell for Ziggy too. It was quite easy to become obsessed night and day with the character. I became Ziggy Stardust. David Bowie went totally out the window. Everybody was convincing me…
The Kinks – Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)
Ray Davies and The Kinks’s 1969 concept album Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) illuminates chronologically one man’s disillusionment with the fading ideals of the British Empire. From rousing…
Django Reinhardt and The Quintet Of The Hot Club Of France – Swing From Paris
It is not often that one man comes to define an entire musical genre, let alone one as significant, influential and toe-tappingly buoyant as to cement itself into the musical consciousness of future…
