This summer, Fat White Family supported Liam Gallagher at his Knebworth enormagig. Writing for tQ, Lias Saoudi recalls the excesses of ego, self-debasement, see-through Spanx and sachets of butter required to face the bucket hat hordes.
50 years ago, John Cale found himself at Heartbreak Hotel, producing sweet and unhinged music from its rooms. Reassessing Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen Of Troy, Darran Anderson explores the musician’s remarkable year-long burst of creativity for Island Records, half a century on
Band Aid raised awareness of a disastrous famine, as well as huge sums of money to try ease it but, one year ahead of its 30th anniversary, Wyndham Wallace begs us to condemn, not celebrate, a song whose lyrics are uglier than Rupert Murdoch’s ballsack