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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
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
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