Jo Bevan

FESTIVAL REPORT: Reverence Festival

Jimmy Martin heads to Valada, Portugal to witness sets from the likes of Psychic TV, Electric Wizard, and Hawkwind, as well finding time to sit down with festival organiser Nick Allport. Photos by Jorge Pereira

John Moore Remembers His Friends Mr Horsley & Mr Wojas

Manic Street Preachers Interview: A Heavenly Body Of Work – Part One

You lucky, lucky people. In, what is certainly the most in depth interview the band have given in recent years, Manic Street Preachers discuss with their biographer Simon Price the brief but explosive period that they were signed to the Heavenly label.

Led Bib

The People In Your Neighbourhood/The Good Egg

EEK Featuring Islam Chipsy & DJ Sardena LPs Reviewed

Electro chaabi DJ Joost Heijthuijsen of Cairo Liberation Front reviews two new Egyptian releases on Nashazphone; EEK featuring Islam Chipsy – Live at the Cairo High Cinema Institute and a self-titled debut by DJ Sardena

Incestuous Unions: Pixies’ Come On Pilgrim Revisited

Twenty-five years after its release, John Freeman looks back on a life-changing debut record bursting with darkness, death and illicit sex and brilliant pop songs