Category: Reviews & Interviews

saint agnes kitty austen: do you remember the first time?

Photo: Fi Carroll First record you bought  Good Charlotte – The Young and The Hopeless, I was a baby emo, i’m very much down with the pop-punk, emo resurgence that’s happening right now. I got a CD walkman for christmas,…

ed cosens: do you remember the first time?

First record you bought First single I bought was a cassette of Vic and Bob’s version of I’m a Believer. Dunno why it was that song but I think it was probably the influence of my mum and all her old 60’s records that…

lightning seeds’ ian broudie: do you remember the first time?

Photo: Mark Wilkinson First record you bought My brothers had all the Dylan and Beatles albums, so I listened to them a lot but the first record I physically went and bought myself was Space Oddity by David Bowie. First gig you went (who, where, when) The…

Sleeper’s louise wener: do you remember the first time?

Photo: Will Ireland – First record you bought?  Human League dare. There’s nothing I didn’t love about it. The cover art. The trip to Our Price on the bus. Spending all my saved up pocket money. Every single song. – First gig you went (who, where, when)? I…

THE BIG INTERVIEW: ANDREW CUSHIN

Words: John Earls Photo: Jon Mo Fresh from his Noel Gallagher collaboration Where’s My Family Gone with Noel Gallagher, Newcastle’s finest young singer-songwriter Andrew Cushin tells John Earls how music helped him overcome a troubled home life – once he’d…

STARSAILOR’S JAMES WALSH: DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME?

First record you bought? Blur ‘Parklife’ on cassette. I remember asking my mum to get it when she went to the supermarket with my paper round money. I used to visit Malcoms Musicland & Townsend Records in Chorley too. First…