Nick Drake

The Stones Re-Booted

Tim Cumming | Posted 08.02.2012 | UK Entertainment
Tim Cumming

Let's wind back the tape 30 years and spring it from the machine and here we are in Camden, 1983, Chalk Farm market, second home to a ragged ephemera of household junk-cum-collectibles, dead men's suits by the rackload wheeled across the cobbles, and lines of blokes with crooked smiles and weird hair bent over boxes of tape cassettes. It is here I bought my first Stones bootleg.

I Hate Myself & I Want To Die: The Deadly Embrace of Rock Music & Suicide

Chris Price | Posted 20.11.2011 | UK
Chris Price

Untold column inches will rightly be expended this week marking the release twenty years ago of Nirvana's epoch-defining and cosmos-transforming album Nevermind. Rather more inches, I'm willing to bet, than were given over to World Suicide Prevention Day last week.

Amy Winehouse Icon?

Stephen O' Regan | Posted 23.09.2011 | UK
Stephen O' Regan

I hope people can give it time, and allow Amy Winehouse to be judged on more honest terms. She deserves to be remembered as a great talent. But it could be too late for any honest judgement.

Music With a View - Josh Bray

Stephen O' Regan | Posted 19.09.2011 | UK Entertainment
Stephen O' Regan

Lets take a break away from all the Murdoch madness - introducing Josh Bray. Josh was inspired to start playing after discovering the legendary Nick Drake, which is as good excuse as any to make you pick up a guitar, so long as you don't let it get you too down.