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The Origin of the Species Published in The Riff The gags are endless — After the Apocalypse, it will be only the rats and Keith Richards. We can’t take drugs anymore because Keith Richards has taken them all. God boomed, “Adam this is Eve. You are to love her forever. Adam replied, “Okay, but who Continue Reading
BY: WILL RUSSELL Post-punk crew make their masterwork. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. With the wax barely cooled on Dogrel, Grian Chatten had already penned the title-track on this boss sophomore effort. A Hero’s Death, it transpires, is a different beast to Fontaines D.C.’s critically acclaimed debut album Dogrel. That much we can Continue Reading
BY: WILL RUSSELL – HOTPRESS 04.08.20 What The Butler saw Recording after a three-decade hiatus is a risky business, but the good news is that the 2020 version of The Psychedelic Furs do not disappoint. On Made Of Rain’s swirling opener ‘The Boy Who Invented Rock And Roll’, Richard Butler’s voice is as complicated sa ever Continue Reading
BY: WILL RUSSELL Garage hero Mike Skinner on The Streets’ comeback mixtape, creating his debut feature film, and how electronic music has changed over the past 20 years. volume is gedempt At the turn of the century, Mike Skinner single-handedly slew the UK music scene, gladiator that he is. His debut album, Original Pirate Material – created Continue Reading
Published in Hotpress on 25 June BY: WILL RUSSELL Side 4 Collective’s fantastic debut album We Burn Bright brings an eclectic array of Irish and international artists together. The bandleader is internationally renowned drummer Dave Hingerty. He recorded dozens of unusual drum patterns with the help of studio guru Anthony Gibney at Audioland Studios. Artists were then invited Continue Reading
Published in Hotpress on 24 June BY: WILL RUSSELL Brilliantly eclectic effort from Irish collective. Side 4 Collective is a wrecking crew of talents assembled by Dave Hingerty of The Frames. The roll call is meaty: Paul Noonan, Josh Ritter, Adrian Crowley, Joe Chester, Cathal Coughlan and Katy Perry’s musical director, Adam Marcello, are just some Continue Reading
Congratulations to the following writers who have been selected for the 2020 Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize. I am delighted to have made the shortlist of the Alpine Fellowship, out of over 2,000 entries from across the world Winners WINNER – Nick Clark RUNNER UP – Maya Catherine Popa RUNNER UP – Emma Venables Shortlisted Writers Continue Reading
Published in Hotpress on 8 June BY: WILL RUSSELL “In the rosy parks of England / We’ll sit and have a drink / Of VP wine and cider ’till we can hardly think / And we’ll go where the spirits take us / To heaven or to hell / And kick up bloody murder in the Continue Reading
Published in MuddyUm on 31 May Naked and smeared in mud, we need rescuing Approaching Day 50 of lock-down, I am forced to admit that my Utopian vision of how our family would conduct ourselves during the pandemic is in ribbons. At the beginning, our aspirations for what we would achieve were lofty, indeed in Continue Reading
Published in PS I Love You on 1 June Lie under a blue sunset and look down on Earth to see it as the Martian does — blue, green and perfect. I get it. Humans prefer Humans. But I prefer the Martian to the Human. For Mars I feel is a more preferable planet than Continue Reading