Teaching a Tea Boy Guitar & Other Stories
Review of Craig Davies' Groovin' on a Shaft Cycle
Music Review
The Familiar Stranger Gets Expanded
Review of Billy Joel's The Stranger 30th Anniversary
Lonely Space Boy
Review of Klaus Nomi's Za Bakdaz
A Slow Decline to Lasting Silence
Danny Kirwan: Second Chapter (Warner, UK)
When Danny Kirwan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, he was absent from the proceedings in New York. In terms of his contribution to popular music, this is a near-perfect act of symbolism. He was living a mundane routine of homelessness, a regular at a hostel for alcoholics in Soho (London), his semi-permanent address since his life had taken a downwards turn at the end of the Seventies.
In Praise of the New Sobriety
Review of The Charlatans' You Cross My Path
Faking It Like Porn
Rob Cochrane's Coldplay review
Captain Beefheart Album Survey, Pt. 3: Low Yo Yo Stuff
More Van Vliet praise from Steve Holtje
An Intensity of Exile
Review of David Ackles' American Gothic
