Tangents - 2001

Damned if you do, damned if you don't
Kevin Pearce with a story of shadows, ghosts and flowers

Sunlight on the snow
Alistair Fitchett on recent Matinee label recordings

Better Late Than Never
Rupert Loydell on his recent reading, December 2001

Troubadours and Dronemasters
Rupert Loydell on his recent listening, December 2001

I Can Only Give You Everything
Alistair Fitchett on Lester Bangs' Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Still Turning The Pages
Alistair Fitchett on recent reading

A City Constructed By A Saxophone
Paul Donnelly on Simon Yarde's Manhattan Suite

Times are Tough, We Can Still Picnic
Alistair Fitchett on his favourite music of 2001

Summer in storage
Daniel Williams on Ella Johnston's installation

Revisiting A Classic
Paul Donnelly on The First Album by Back Door

Stardust and Coaldust
Tim Footman on the melancholic magnificence of Peter Skellern

Mart's Smart
Mike Morris on Martin Amis

Travels In Canada & Canadian Literature
by Clare Wadd

Peggy Ramsay, play agent
Clare Wadd on a personal modern heroine

You Don't Hear That On Radio One
Paul Donnelly listens to a little Space Rock

Ink Has Won! Long Live Paint!
Bob Garlitz makes his point

One More Night
Paul Donnelly remembers Michael Karoli

Whatever Happened to Swingbeat?
Kevin Pearce on the Now Thing compilation

She started dancing to that fine, fine music
Kevin Pearce on the Velvet Underground and Robert Quine

Beached
Alistair Fitchett on Bryan Wynter, Patrick Heron, Michel Houellebecq and Raymond Pettibon

Absent Reviews: Seen 'em already
Rupert Loydell on Gillian Ayres, Doug Aitken and John Hoyland

Harmony
Kevin Pearce on the recent reissue by The Wake

Keeping It Real
Robin Tomens considers R&B, old and new

Laughing, Mostly
Alistair Fitchett listens to Delta and remembers the Sea Urchins

Trying to get back that feeling that I had in 1982
Kevin Pearce savages Scritti Politti's Songs To Remember

Autumn Kaleidoscopes
Alistair Fitchett on Beachwood Sparks, satanstompingcaterpillars, Deloris and Braving The Seabed

I Love The Unknown
Alistair Fitchett in praise of Clem Snide

Pocko Book Angel
Alistair Fitchett on new pocketable art books

Missing In Action
Kevin Pearce with a plea for Ze

movie-dream memoirs
Alistair Fitchett reviews singles by Richard and DJ Ordeal, and remembers Househunters whilst he's at it

Everything You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother
Robin Tomens on, amongst others, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, FSOL and Lisa Carbon

Blotting Up The Tears
Tim Footman on the Ink Spots as avatars of indie

Ask The Dust
Robin Tomens reflects

money off coupons
the continuing journals of Everett True

Urban Funk
Rupert Loydell's recent listening, september 2001

Saturday September 15th 2001
Recent listening by Kevin Pearce

The Present Where
collaborative prose by Roselle Angwin and Rupert Loydell

Badminton and Twiglets
the continuing journal of Everett True

Ashtrays in Mt Etna
Marino Guida with a C-90 for the Summer

Wordless Playtime
Tim Footman on Glenn Gould and Maher Shalal Hash Baz

Love With A Passion Called Hate!
Kevin Pearce on The White Stripes' White Blood Cells

Over Bramble Bridge
Alistair Fitchett with his obligatory summer compilation tape

Vital or Recital?
Brian Eno & J.Peter Schwalm: Drawn From Life reviewed by Alan Osborne

Teaching the shy lads to dance
Jon Wren on Belle and Sebastian, Mull Historical Society, New Order and why pop is utterly essential

Blue
Alistair Fitchett on bicycle rides and Blue Aeroplanes

A Small Compendium Of Ironic Moments
or, Why Mike Morris doesn't miss the 1980's

Sensational Summer Smash
Alistair Fitchett on recent listening

Another One Of Those Days
Everett True's July 2000 journal

For Losers Only
Kevin Pearce ressurects Robert Lloyd and gives praise for the Prefects and the Nightingales

It's the same old sun
Kevin Pearce on Prefuse 73 and Panoptica

Nu Music Review
Will Haley with some new releases worth hearing

All The Time In the World
Robin Tomens with a series or 12 articles that go from the Jonzun Crew to Don Ellis, the Chicago Underground Duo to Northern Soul, and far far beyond...

Kitkats and Vinegar
Alistair Fitchett on the triumphant return of Animals That Swim, pausing only to despair at Belle and Sebastian's single

No More Heroes
Some Athenian pondering by Sandra Tappenden

Johnny In The Echo Chamber
Kevin Pearce with some reggae reissue recommendations

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside
British film and Mark Morris go coastal

Not Just a Consumer Monkey
Ruvi Simmons on The Smiths

Blue Waves That Spill
Alistair Fitchett remembers 14 Iced Bears and almost wishes for the return of the 1980s

Tom Lehrer
by Everett True

Something Worth Celebrating
Alistair Fitchett on Tom Friedman and recent Art books

Just A Daft Moustache
or Why Alistair Fitchett hates Salvador Dali

New York Eye and Ear Control
Marino Guida on Albert Ayler, Max Roach and James Taylor's revenge.

Beyond the Stars
Alistair Fitchett experiences Life Without Buildings live.

An interview with Andrew Poppy
Rupert Loydell talks to the composer

Black and Blue
Alistair Fitchett on Johnny Dangerously and I Am Kloot

Sunset Studies
Alistair Fitchett discovers the delights of Augie March

1,2,3,4
Everett True with some memories of the Ramones

The Curse of Tastefulness
Kevin Pearce on the Crown Heights Affair and Andrea Parker.

Zigzag Wandering
Rupert Loydell's Recent Listening, May 2001

Happy Daze
Robin Tomens ponders Soul in The Future, The Past and The Present. Includes talk of a Mod revival...

Don't Hang The DJ
Tim Footman remembers his personal Club epiphany.

Total Trash
Alistair Fitchett's Sonic Youth Memories

Just because it's obvious
Alistair Fitchett on Gram Parsons, John Phillips and The Lovin' Spoonful

55
Alistair Fitchett on Phaidon Books' new photography series

Where Have All Les Francais Gone?
Mike Morris gets a little bit nostalgic.

Favourite Words
(An a capella tribute to Martin Stannard and Syd Barrett and Boyzone by Tim Footman)

You'll Know When You Get There
Robin Tomens on Herbie Hancock, Sun Ra and Louis Armstrong

In the evening, drink.
The continuing journals of Everett True.

Put Another Dime In The Juke Box, Baby
or Why knowing too much about Wilson Pickett and/or Crispy Ambulance is better than the alternative by Tim Footman

My Favourite Pop Groups Not In Any Special Order
by Martin Stannard

The Smartest Kid on Earth
Mike Morris on the comics of Chris Ware

A Different Story
The Ballad of The June Brides by Kevin Pearce

Street Graphics Cuba
Alistair Fitchett thinks things over

Listen to the voice
Everett True in praise of Mark Lanegan

Beauty Doesn't Come Any More Strange
Kevin Pearce on Kleenex and LiLiPUT

No, I drift. Mostly I drift.
Daniel Williams on Vini Reilly and the Durutti Column

Ragamuffin Minstrel Boy
Alistair Fitchett on rediscovering Bob Dylan

So Much Choice! So Much For Choice!
Kevin Pearce asks where to hear, and where to read about the new sounds

Changing The World By Any Means Necessary
Rupert Loydell's Recent Reading, February 2001

my empty-headed daydreams
Alistair Fitchett comes back from London and talks about what he saw there.

'Facts' can take care of themselves
Alistair Fitchett on Andy Warhol and the myth of truth.

Hallelujah!
John Cale Live by Rupert Loydell

The Peacock Manifesto
Alistair Fitchett on the new novel by Stuart David

Annette Peacock and the Bible of X-Dreams
by Marino Guida

Of Critics and Cannibals
As Hannibal approaches, Joel Wicklund writes a personal response to The Silence of the Lambs and its critics

waiting: like before the first kiss.
Colin Koopman experiences Aislers Set - jan.2001

Let's Get Out
Alistair Fitchett goes from Limp Bizkit to Life Without Buildings and Low. Seamlessly...

Innocent?
Mark Morris looks at the Tierney Gearon controversy

Tokenism, Advice, And The Skies of Jamaica
Rob Lo with advice on how to buy records and in praise of Lee Perry

The Medium Is Tedium
Rob Lo on how we hear and read about music

Option Click. Delete. Cannot Undo.
Rupert Loydell buys some comics

Instant Access
Rupert Loydell reviews three new books about music

The Most Important Building In Town
Kevin Pearce celebrates the library

It's Only an Opinion, but Hey...
Alistair Fitchett on the Consumer as Critic and why he doesn't want to read any books about Creation records.

Right To Reply
Paolo Hewitt responds to criticism of his Creation book

Tricky Traverses
Climbing the mountain of music journalism with Alistair Fitchett

Welcome To My Beautiful, Fucked Up Life
Mark Morris stumbles downtown via Corinne Day and Jean Michel Basquiat

Guided by Distraction
Alistair Fitchett on Jean Michel Basquiat and Kim HiorthÀy

Context Is Everything
Kevin Pearce on Kent records

Va Va Voom
Marino Guida in the sauna with Don Ellis, on ice with Go-Kart Mozart and Eldridge Cleaver.

The One You Really Love
Alistair Fitchett with The Magnetic Fields vs Belle & Sebastian

The Unkowable City
Rupert Loydell with recent Reading, January 2001

Dexys Midnight Runners
Everett True with an in-depth interview with Kevin Rowland and Kevin Archer.

Some Kicks
Marino Guida on The Fall, Stan Getz, Cecil Taylor and Ken Tynan.

Lars Von Trier
The Danish director goes under the microscope of Mark Morris.