Jude Rogers

Relight The Fire

jude — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:59:17 +0000

The glitzy Liverpool leg of Gary Barlow’s current solo tour reviewed by me in today’s Observer.

It’s in the air for you and me

jude — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:57:43 +0000

My new radio column, Radio-Activity (oh yes), starts today on The Quietus. I’m really excited about it. Read more here, and watch (listen?) out for it every weekend to come.

Haim-Lick Manoeuvre

jude — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:52:19 +0000

I’m on Woman’s Hour this morning, talking to Jenni Murray about all the ladies in the BBC Sound of 2013 poll, won by LA sisters Haim (that’s Hi-em!). Listen here.

Going Dutch

jude — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:50:53 +0000

In the new issue of Q, I gallivant off to the Netherlands to review the Mercury-nominated 23-year-old Lianne La Havas, Prince and Stevie Wonder’s new favourite singer-songwriter, and review the brilliant new debut album by Fimber Bravo – your new favourite bus-pass collecting space-dubstep merchant. Out now, etc etc.

It’s the end of the year…

jude — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:49:29 +0000

…therefore it’s time to nominate my favourite moment and albums and tracks of the year for The Guardian. I did these a few weeks ago, and obviously changed my mind about the albums about ten minutes after I sent them. Then ten minutes after that. Then ten minutes after that…although I still recommend them all (although I do apologise for forgetting bloody Beach House). And the Nile Rodgers gig was genuinely a moment of the year, although I wish I’d remembered Underworld at the Olympics too. Bring it on, 2013…

Ghosts in the DVD Machine

jude — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:47:40 +0000

My review of the BBC’s fantastic Ghost Stories Box Set – including lots of terrifying gems from the eerie 1970s – is up now on The Quietus.

Kylie Culture

jude — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:44:35 +0000

Kylie’s Abbey Road Sessions, and where Ms Minogue stands now after 25 years in pop, reviewed by me for The Quietus.

I also twist my lugs around the Example album – BANG, BOOM, WHACK – in the new issue of Q.

Return Of The ‘Mack

jude — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 08:50:58 +0000

In today’s Observer, Bobby Womack takes me through the soundtrack to his life. I also speak to Lianne La Havas about her brilliant year, and review that album that everyone’s been talking about.

The Quietus: Pop Marketing & Rihanna’s Unapologetic

jude — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:11:08 +0000

I find opinion pieces tough to write. But sometimes there are things gnawing at you so horribly, so badly, that you can’t help it but feel them rising up through your body, forcing you to write about them. So I did. This is a piece for The Quietus about Rihanna, and pop marketing, and domestic violence, and online culture, and how polarised debates seem to be at the heart of any mainstream discussion of art, and some other stuff. Now I’m going to lie down in a dark room.

The Observer: Luke Haines

jude — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:09:32 +0000

In today’s Observer, I interview former Auteur/self-saboteur, turned surreal singer-songwriter, film-star, and white-suited man of Buenos Aires-cum-Gospel Oak, the inimitable Luke Haines. I can exclusively reveal here that he uses the same cat litter as me. For his cat.