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Chris Roberts

A Quietus Interview

Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? Jimmy Webb Interviewed

The genius behind 'MacArthur Park' and 'Galveston' discusses his past at Motown with Chris Roberts, and predicts the invention of robots used for sex in the future...
A Quietus Interview

Not Your Typical Mackems: Field Music Interviewed

Chris Roberts talks to David Brewis about sibling relationships and a love for Led Zeppelin - apart from "their Tolkien stuff", of course...
Live Reviews

M For Montreal: A Quest For New Canadian Sounds & Leonard Cohen’s House

Chris Roberts travels to the M For Montreal festival in Canada to take in the country's finest sights, bands and night life... Photograph by Alexandre Bedard
Live Reviews

U2 Live Under A Slate Grey Claw: Chris Roberts Reports From Wembley

Giant contraption fails to divert attention away from the fact that Irish megastars aren't quite as good as they used to be. Gallery of band close-ups, Jim Dyson
Film

Mickey Rourke Interviewed: Plus Hollywood’s Greatest Comebacks

Chris Roberts gets personal with Mickey Rourke and The Quietus remembers more of cinema's greatest comeback stories
Film

New Patti Smith Documentary: Dream of Life – Reviewed

_Patti Smith: Dream of Life_ is an impressionistic portrait of a true rock legend. Chris Roberts is awestruck.
Reviews

Beyonce

I Am Sasha Fierce

Film

Did Oliver Stone Go Easy on George Bush? W. Reviewed

Oliver Stone has been praised for his restraint in this timely character study of the soon-to-be ex-president, but Chris Roberts kinda wishes Stone had gone for the jugular.

Film

Quantum Of Solace Reviewed – Is It The Worst Bond Yet?

_Casino Royale_ may have been Bond's _Batman Begins_ but _Quantum of Solace_ ain't no _Dark Knight_. The 22nd Bond film lacks both the edge of _Bourne_ and the campy charm of the original. Chris Roberts picks apart this debacle.

Live Reviews

Look Back In Stavanger – We Visit Norway For Serena-Maneesh’s Festival Among The Mountains

Our man with a well-thumbed passport, Chris Roberts, disembarks in Norway. He is there to find an alternative music festival featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serena-Maneesh but ends up with kamerad & spelemann as well.

Reviews

The Dandy Warhols

...Earth To The Dandy Warhols...

Black Sky Thinking

The Dark Knight of the Soul? Chris Roberts on Heath Ledger’s Untimely Death

Has Heath Ledger's tragic death complicated our viewing of his final performance? Chris Roberts untangles the man from the clown.
Reviews

The Sugarcubes

Singles Box Set

In the light of The Sugarcubes singles collection, Chris Roberts explains why they're more than "Bjork's old band"
Reviews

Primal Scream

Beautiful Future

Reviews

Donna Summer

Crayons

Reviews

Shearwater

Rook

Reviews

Scarlett Johannson

Anywhere I Lay My Head

Black Sky Thinking

Black Sky Thinking: The Joy Division Industry

More offcuts from the factory, by Chris Roberts. Illustration by Stu Green
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