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Jimmy Page the power and the glory

Interview by Jonathan Wingate Iseems entirely fitting that Jimmy Page is sitting here in the artists’ lounge of Gibson Guitars’ Soho offices. We are here to discuss the release of the appropriately titled It Might Get Loud, a triumphant and truly compelling cinematic journey through the lives of Page, U2’s The Edge and Jack White of The White Stripes – three of the most …

Bored teenagers

Ian shirley celebrates the (highly collectable) punk bands who could have been contenders…. Forget that Kate Nash has scored hit singles and a hit album – Made Of Bricks – the important thing is that she is a punk rock fan. In fact, Nash got into the music by buying a vinyl copy of Bored Teenagers 2 at Spitalfield’s record collector’s Market one Friday morning to …

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MILLIE SMALL the lollipop girl

Laurence Cane-Honeysett celebrates the singer who first made the world aware of Jamaican music Amy Winehouse has claimed it is one of her all-time favourite records, while celebrated reggae DJ, David Rodigan, and revered writer John Masouri credit the disc as being the spark that ignited their life-long love of Jamaican music, and they’re certainly far from being alone. Millie …

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THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE - Fanpack: Live 1967/68 Paris/Ottawa

A purple hazing of marketing nous Five months after Hendrix offered Experience for all, the alien who might as well have wielded a raygun instead of a guitar, set fire to Paris’ Olympia Theatre on 9 October 1967. Not literally, of course, but, with broken Strat and all, The Jimi Hendrix Experience left les garçons et les filles with third-degree audio burns following a …

ALBUM REVIEW From Issue 373

WESLEY WILLIS - Wesley Willis’ Joy Rides

Rock over London, rock over Chicago; rock in peace When Wesley Willis finally succumbed to leukemia in August 2003, it was the last in a long line of tragedies that plagued the man who, without ever acheiving mainstream success, became one of the richest, most talked about “outsider artists” of the 90s and 00s. At six-and-a-half-feet and over 300 pounds, Willis may …

DVD REVIEW From Issue 373

Motörhead In The Studio by Jake Brown

Overkill Even conceding that the clue’s in the title and this isn’t intended as a comprehensive history, Jake Brown gets off to an inauspiciously muddled start in his Motörhead survey by contesting that the band was born from “the ashes of space-rock band Hawkwind”. Following that massive overstatement, there’s a quote from Lemmy that leaves …

BOOK REVIEW From Issue 373

COLDPLAY - Exeter Castle (19th December, 2009)

View: standing, stage-right The long overdue return for Exeter-born Chris Martin was in aid of Mencap and put together by Radio One. Some 200 diehard Coldplay fans got tickets from a local record shop, the remaining 300 going for £500+ each via e-Bay. Subject to stringent noise abatement, the band played the latter part of their set on a secondary acoustic stage. But in …

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