Back in their terrifying heyday, they threw pigs’ heads around on stage, covered themselves in muck, provided Marilyn Manson with a career and wrote ‘Community Games’ for Aidan Walsh. Having escaped the clutches of a sinister born-again Christian turned transvestite, they’re now making movies with Neil Jordan, dining with Damien Hirst and consorting with Tony Blair. All in all, it’s been a long, strange trip for The Virgin Prunes
Welsh pop extroverts Super Furry Animals have delivered their most cohesive and rewarding record yet. Frontman Gruf Rhys explains why Wu Tang Clan as the band's new role model.
STEPHEN MORRIS takes time out from humming the theme to Green Acres and terrorising everyone within a five-mile radius of his newly-aquired Yorkshire farm (with his equally newly-acquired heavy artillery) to talk to STUART CLARK about his and Gillian Gilbert's New Order offshoot The Other Two.
With their biggest dates ever in Ireland looming, LIAM MACKEY dips into voluminous hotpress archives and selects a small sample of what the paper said about U2 over the years
One thing’s clear from the off. Mr Hiller – nothing if not the quintessential Mute artist – is a dab hand at the old Pro Tools (or, if he’s an analogue snob, which I very much doubt, scissors and sellotape).
Actor, musician, professional widow and major-label-baiter Courtney Love spins a few at Alan McGee's Death Disco, soon heading to a Dublin near you. Did we mention the new Nirvana track?
Actor, musician, professional widow and all-occasion noisemaker Courtney Love spins a few at Alan McGee's Death Disco, soon heading to a Dublin near you. Oh, did we mention the new Nirvana track?
Did you know that Gruff and Daf from cuddly Welsh band Super Furry Animals used to be in a group called FFa Coffi Pawb (loosely translated as Everyone's Coffee Beans?)
