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Feb 61 min read
Facing The Other Way: The Story of 4AD, Spanish edition June 2025
I am thrilled to confirm that a Spanish edition of the 4AD biography will be published by Contra in June 2025, using Vaughan's original...
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Feb 21 min read
It's Never Over: The Jeff Buckley film doc finally lands, MOJO, 2025
Ten years in development, the first official film documentary about the late Jeff Buckley debuted at the Sundance film festival in...
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Jan 11 min read
David Lynch R.I.P.
R.I.P. David Lynch. Another visionary gone. Talking of which, he and Vaughan crossed paths when Lynch commissioned artwork for his “Good...
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Nov 8, 20241 min read
Rock Pop Underground - M21 Gallery, Pécs, Budapest
An exhibition of graphic design is being held in Budapest, which includes works by Vaughan Oliver and Chris Bigg. Vaughan is represented...
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Aug 22, 20241 min read
MOJO 371 - Laurie Anderson, Joan As Police Woman, David Kilgour, October 2024
In the latest issue of MOJO, I interview - Laurie Anderson and her accomplices about the foundations of her radical art-pop mindset, the...
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Jun 6, 20241 min read
MOJO 369 - August 2024
The new issue of MOJO includes my feature on The Chameleons, talking to founder members Mark Burgess and Reg Smithers, 29 years after I...
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Aug 3, 20234 min read
Kristin Hersh's Hips And Makers, 30th anniversary edition, sleevenotes
I've just received the double vinyl 30th anniversary edition of Kristin's solo debut Hips And Makers, which 4AD's website says is...
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Oct 2, 20221 min read
French edition of Facing The Other Way.. on sale
The French edition of Facing The Other Way - under the title À contre-courant - has just been published by Editions Allia - thank you...
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Aug 1, 20221 min read
Kate Bush and Wuthering Heights, MOJO 2022
Much has happened since my last update; the pandemic got in the way. I'm currently not contributing to online sites (so no links) but...
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Jul 31, 20221 min read
Miki Berenyi's memoir Fingers Crossed coming Sept 2022..
Former Lush singer/guitarist Miki Berenyi's memoir Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success (published by Nine Eight Books) is a...
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Jun 30, 20211 min read
The Vaughan Oliver Graphic Design Scholarship, Sept 2021
Vaughan's name is alive.... Vaughan Oliver’s work with 4AD established him as one of the most influential Graphic Designers and Art...
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Dec 3, 20201 min read
Throwing Muses, MOJO, 2020
I'd first interviewed Kristin Hersh in 1986, not long after Throwing Muses had released their startling debut album, on the day that the...
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Sep 9, 20201 min read
Facing The Other Way... Russian edition, 2020
I thought the first translation would be Spanish, maybe French, but it turned out to be Russian...
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Jan 7, 20201 min read
Vaughan Oliver, R.I.P. December 2019
Hard to believe, but Vaughan died, after a very short illness, on December 29th. RIP the genius, unique, mischievous, irrepressible,...
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Jan 2, 20201 min read
Singer-Songwriter Emo? Lucy Dacus and Snail Mail, MOJO, 2019
"Singer-Songwriter Emo" on the rise... if there is such a thing. I've interviewed two justifiably leading exponents for MOJO, Lucy Dacus...
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Nov 15, 20191 min read
Leonard Cohen, by producer John Lissauer, MOJO, 2019.
In a special MOJO tribute, I interviewed John Lissauer, who looked back at the two Leonard Cohen albums that he produced, New Skin For...
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Sep 14, 20191 min read
Gene Clark + Public Image Ltd, MOJO, 2019
For MOJO, in spring 2019, I flew-drove to Mendocino in Northern California to look for the soul of the late GENE CLARK, who lived there...
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Jul 31, 20181 min read
Felt: an introduction in ten records, The Vinyl Factory, 2018
An Introduction to Felt, the enigmatic, beguiling treasure led by the singular Lawrence, whose ten-album lifespan has been given the...
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Jul 27, 20181 min read
Jeff Buckley - An oral history, Q Magazine, 2014
My 3000-word 'eyewtiness' account of the late, extraordinary Jeff Buckley was part of a 17-page special in Q's s 2014 June issue, marking...
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Sep 1, 20171 min read
How Music Came Out: at Spiritland, Oct 15th
October 15 7pm: Spiritland's killer sound system presents the forgotten queer pioneers of popular music, such as Fred Barnes, Gene Malin,...
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