As I stood amongst the growing crowd in the opulent and massively-sized Hammersmith Apollo watching Babe Shadow take to the stage, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of awe about the place. Would The Babe Shadow, a small band…
Blog: Brian’s uncle Peter on the Joni/Bob rift
It’s been widely reported that Joni Mitchell called Bob Dylan a ‘phoney’ in a recent LA Times interview. Reading the whole of the article in question helps get the comments into context. The comments on Bob Dylan came after the…
Classic album: Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now
Joni Mitchell’s concept album of 2000 traces the arc of a relationship from the first flushes of romance (‘You’re My Thrill’), through uncertainty and despair (‘You’ve Changed’), to a tragic end filled with the pathos of her realisation that it…
Sean Rawls from Still Flyin’: my top ten Pavement songs + free track
FFS wasn’t at Pavement ATP this weekend. Because we didn’t want to be*. But one of our favourite interviewees ever, Still Flyin’, were along with Blitzen Trapper, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Broken Social Scene and some band called The Fall. Sean’s…
Brian’s mixtape #34: We Love You Joni
Brian noticed Joni Mitchell’s recent comments about Bob Dylan and he thinks he’s worked it out. Poor Joni is sad because she’s not getting enough attention. And she really isn’t Bob, Neil Young and Johnny Cash get plaudits aplenty but…
Live: The Big Pink @ HMV forum, London
With her hooded cloak, long hair and slow rocking back and forth, Rachel from Ebsen and the Witch does a good job of living up to the band name. During their set, the bass drum takes centre stage and at…