Music Mutterings Archive (updated 15/12/2019)

Along with conjuring up Antipodean tales, I also contribute to Liverpool based music publication, Getintothis.

 

Below are links to some of my work which has been published. This will be updated periodically:

Features/Interviews: 

 

2019:
 

Mount Eerie's A Crow Looked At Me and Now Only - tackling bereavement and mental health
Sorry We Missed You review: a frightening reality to a state of the nation
Weyes Blood's Titan Rising: Proof that the slower burners are often the best
End of an era as we say goodbye to The Affair - an afterword
Deliluh interview: The Slint comparison has come up a lot and is still strange to us
Richard Dawson's 2020: The makings of an unbridled masterpiece
Daughters interview: "The Lion at the bottom of the mountain is hungrier than the lion at the top"
The Mercury Prize 2019 reflection - poisoned chalices, industry back-slapping and Sleaford Mods
David Berman - dead aged 52: an afterword 

Jeff Tweedy memoir: Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)

Low's Double Negative - an album to tug at heartstrings

 

2018:

 

The Lucid Dream talk Acid House, Carlisle, London and Pep Guardiola

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs talk Brexit, the seven deadly sins and filthy guitar

Baxter Dury: a unique artist transcending mere cult status

The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet 50 years on: the first injection of cool

 

2017:

 

Protomartyr: their work so far

Sleaford Mods: a voice for the voiceless

 

Live Reviews:

2019:

Torche, Slow Crush @ The Zanzibar, Liverpool
Lightning Dust @ 24 Kitchen Street, Liverpool
Richard Dawson @ Studio2 Parr Street, Liverpool
Steve Mason @ Invisible Wind Factory Substation, Liverpool
Craig Finn & The Uptown Controllers, Laura Stevenson @ Jacaranda Phase One, Liverpool
John Witherspoon @ Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool
Jesca Hoop, Chloe Foy @ Leaf, Liverpool
Say Sue Me @ Jacaranda Phase One, Liverpool
RongoRongo, Stores, Feral Wheel @ The Zanzibar Club, Liverpool
Modern Nature @ The Shipping Forecast, Liverpool
Primavera Sound @ Parc del Forum, Barcelona
The High Dials @ Jacaranda Phase One, Liverpool
Tropical Fuck Storm @ Jacaranda Phase One, Liverpool
Drahla @ Jacaranda Phase One, Liverpool
The Coathangers @ Arts Club Loft, Liverpool
Crippled Black Phoenix, Fotocrime @ Cafe Indiependent, Scunthorpe
Bob Mould @ Academy 2, Manchester
Our Girl @ Jacaranda Phase One, Liverpool

2018:

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs @ Shipping Forecast, Liverpool
Bill Ryder-Jones @ Grand Central Hall, Liverpool
Yves Tumor @ 24 Kitchen Street, Liverpool
Gruff Rhys @ Arts Club, Liverpool
Here Lies Man @ The Shipping Forecast, Liverpool
Phosphorescent, BC Camplight @ Hangar 34, Liverpool
The Coral, She Drew the Gun @ Mountford Hall
Kelly Lee Owens @ Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool
Wooden Shjips @ Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool
Protomartyr @ O2 Academy, Liverpool
Alexander Tucker @ 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool
Omni @ The Shipping Forecast, Liverpool
Julie Byrne @ Studio 2 Parr Street, Liverpool
British Sea Power @ O2 Academy, Liverpool
The Weather Station, Red River Dialect @ Central Library, Liverpool