Articles 1990-1993

 

Heroes and Vaudevillians

In London's Hackney Empire, the ghosts of past audiences are disturbed by the technological carnage of a film set lights, cameras, cranes, tracks, monitors and cables, as far the eye can see. The occasion is The Pogues' video shoot, working with director Neil Jordan, for their tracks on the Red Hot And Blue Aids benefit LP.

Graham Linehan , Select, 1990 [Read the full article]

 

The Guardian

"All her life she has been held back by others' low expectations of her and so now she sets her own agenda. The aim is nothing less than to be herself in public. Her tone is pitched somewhere between the anguished cry of the maimed adolescent and the maturing artist struggling to find an individual voice.Echoing Hemingway's claim that the best training ground for an artist is an unhappy childhood"

Paah, The Guardian, 1991 [Read the full article]

 

The Last Waltz

Walking down Madison, her recent collaboration with Johnny Marr, has finally put paid to the idea of KIRSTY MacCOLL as a dull folkie bimbo, and her forthcoming Electric Landlady LP promises an even more radical departure from her previous work.

Dave Jennings , Melody Maker, 1991[Read the full article]

 

Johnny Moped

"The gig itself was a fine spectacle of rock power and the cheesy charisma that Johnny Moped brings to bear on an audience. ... I left the tape running in the dressing room as we tried to sort out the history of one of nature's strangest phenomena."

Alex Ogg , Spiral Scratch, 1991 [Read the full article]