Category: Hot Press
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With Whom to Dance: The Magnetic Fields’ Get Lost, Hot Press, March 1996.
Get Lost by The Magnetic Fields was the only album I gave double six to in Hot Press that the editors allowed to stay with full marks. Probably because I’d been there a few years at that point and maybe because I obviously liked the record a lot. I still do. I mean, when I…
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Keanu Is King: Voodoo Queens Feature, HP, 1993.
The Voodoo Queens were definitely one of the first bands I interviewed for Hot Press. I met them in the Rock Garden, Autumn 1993. I remember I interviewed them at the same time or maybe just slightly before someone writing for a local Riot Grrrl fanzine and I thought her questions were better. She knew…
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Dublin’s Still Alive: Wormhole / Jubilee, HP, 1995
This is a short review I did of two fantastic bands in The Attic in Dublin, where I went as much as I could. I used the opening paragraph of this piece as an introduction in sleeve notes for You Never See The Stars When It Rains, the 2021 Wormhole anthology pictured below. I have…