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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 61 min read
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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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Feb 21 min read
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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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Jan 11 min read
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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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Nov 8, 20241 min read
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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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Aug 22, 20241 min read
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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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Jun 7, 20241 min read
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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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Aug 3, 20234 min read
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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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Oct 3, 20221 min read
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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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Aug 1, 20221 min read
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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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Aug 1, 20221 min read
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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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Jul 1, 20211 min read
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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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Dec 3, 20201 min read
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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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Sep 10, 20201 min read
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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 7, 20201 min read
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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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Jan 2, 20201 min read
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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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Nov 15, 20191 min read
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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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Sep 15, 20191 min read
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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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Aug 1, 20181 min read
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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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Jul 28, 20181 min read
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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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Sep 2, 20171 min read
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