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Published in Hotpress on 11 May, 2020 BY: WILL RUSSELL Away baby, let’s go! No matter what befell revelers of the Second Summer of Love, wherever and whenever you partook in it, we’ll always have Screamadelica. Like the Stones’ Exile on Main St. it is a record to get lost in, a record where you can almost hear Continue Reading
Published on Slackjaw on 8 May Coldplay: You have built a treehouse in which you will live for the duration. The Eagles: Keeping your fridge stocked with beer has become your life purpose. Bob Marley: Keeping your fridge stocked with peanut butter and bananas has become your life purpose. Shania Twain: You miss your hairdresser the most. Guns N’ Continue Reading
Published in Hotpress on 23.04.20 BY: WILL RUSSELL As part of our ongoing ‘My Favourite Things’ series, Will Russell reflects on Gram Parsons’ iconic second solo album, Grievous Angel. My dog is called Gram Parsons. On the sunny day that I got married, I smoked a morning Cohiba at Gram’s grave in a remote part of New Continue Reading
BY: WILL RUSSELL Published in Hotpress on 06.04.20 Master of the Upsetter. I was supposed to be meeting up with Lee Scratch Perry this week on his UK Tour. He had responded to a piece that I sent him. We exchanged a few words and had arranged to meet after his show at the Brudenell Social Continue Reading
BY: WILL RUSSELL – PUBLISHED IN HOTPRESS ON 27 MARCH, 2020 Warning: Watching this movie is highly addictive. It was a good one, the summer of 1995. A summer of great weather, festivals, endless parties and fine wines all played out to a soundtrack of Oasis’ What’s the Story Morning Glory?, Pulp’s Different Class, Radiohead’s The Bends, Leftfield’s Leftism, Goldie’s Timeless and Continue Reading
Published in Hotpress on 24 March, 2020 Overnight, it seems that the music industry has been transformed, with the shut-down of all live gigs and festivals. But this isn’t the first time that a major societal collapse has rocked the industry of human happiness. Here, we look at the great disruptions that have seen the Continue Reading
BY: WILL RUSSELL – Hotpress, 05 Feb, 2020 Quality stuff from US Indietronica crew. “Snow falls on the tip of my tongue/ Tasting blood of the violence to come,” sings Polica frontwoman Channy Leaneagh on ‘Driving’, the opening number of the group’s fifth album When We Stay Alive. The lines prepare you for another round of Polica’s Continue Reading
BY: WILL RUSSELL – Published in Hotpress on 28 Feb, 2020 Excellent outing for US dream pop merchants Across their previous four albums, Real Estate artfully hid a dark underbelly beneath a conventional indie exterior. Teenage Fanclub and The Byrds have rightly been labelled as their primary influences, but Elliott Smith and The Pixies possess equal Continue Reading
Check out this week’s #Hotpress where my #FontainesDC piece shared the cover with Ireland’s Biggest Ever Pop Star – #NiallHoran (I grant a small corner, but there nonetheless, a few inches from stardom, dizzy) A head of the release of his highly anticipated new album, Heartbreak Weather, this month, Niall Horan graces the cover of the new issue of Hot Press! Post-One Direction life has been Continue Reading
Fontaines D.C.were incredible last night in Brixton. Check out my live review published in Hot Press Magazine – The freezing breeze sweeping the streets of London is a chilly reminder that winter is not yet over but already Fontaines D.C.’s slaying of a sold-out Brixton Academy is a contender for gig of the year. Like Oasis, Continue Reading