Before Kurt Cobain was a Gen X Icon
Remember when none of us were labelled Gen X? During the late 1980s, I lived in a sluice house on the edge of the Dark Ink, a wild lake on the edge of the Sodium Glare, near a town in […]
Oh, Is this the way they say the Future’s meant to Feel?
Or just 20,000 people standing in a field? They collected me from the Sluice House early on the Friday morning, me and the Angry Young Teddy Bears going down to Feile, they drinking and chatting, me driving. Jesus. Feile was […]
We Have Found Our Voice
Chuffed to see my piece on 2020 in Irish music featuring Junior Brother, The Mary Whallopers and Fontaines DC published in today’s Hotpress.
Down All The Years, Babe
1990? Dublin? An Italian? Toto Schillaci is the next logic in that sequence. After spending the eighties slogging through the lower divisions of Italian football in the yellow and red of hardy battlers Messina, Toto hit his purple patch in […]
Once Upon A Time In Kampala
The Rise & Rise of Nyege Nyege Tapes I knew what I opened the studio for. I was looking for a higher ground, for what I knew existed in the soul of mankind.” Sam Phillips Man, there is something happening […]
Life, Death, Beauty, Melancholy
There’s a giant in my head and it ain’t me. I despise that giant. Every time I fall into the abyss, I have to fight him, he beats me, forever he beats me and then somehow he releases me and […]
Was It All A Dream?
Chuffed to see my Gonzo piece on Liam Gallagher published in Hotpress. Check it out on the link below, it was a wild endeavor… https://www.hotpress.com/music/liam-gallagher-dream-22797881
Howlin’ Wolf
“This Is Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies” Sam Phillips Howlin’ Wolf, now there’s a handle you are always going to check out. Before I knew of the blues, I knew of Howlin’ Wolf. In the back seat, the […]
This Machine Kills Fascists
Dust Bowl Ballads – Woody Guthrie (1940) “Harsh voiced and nasal, his guitar hanging like a tire iron on a rusty rim, there is nothing sweet about Woody, and there is nothing sweet about the songs he sings. But there […]
Lee Scratch Perry – Super Ape
Master of the Upsetter “I like to give something special to people: that’s why I tour. I go because the people believe in God, and there is no other God coming but me. I’m not working because of the money; […]