In the last week, I’ve been to Minehead and Manchester, interviewed Richard Herring and Cherry Ghost, and tried to charm the lugs off Steve Albini (so far without success), so have consequently been too brain-dead to post my latest pieces. Now I’m here, as I live and breathe.
In this month’s Word, in your local magazine outlet now, I review Canadian’s best sprawling bands, Broken Social Scene, the New Pornographers and The Acorn (subscribe here: http://www.thewordmagazine.co.uk).
In last week’s New Statesman, I reviewed Rob Chapman’s excellent
biography of Syd Barrett, A Very Irregular Head (http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/05/syd-barrett-pink-floyd-chapman).