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Wyndham Wallace
Wyndham Wallace moved to Berlin, Germany, in 2004, after eight years running City Slang Records’ UK office. Lee, Myself & I, his acclaimed book about singer / songwriter / producer Lee Hazlewood was published in 2015, and in 2018 he fronted Almost Fashionable: A Film About Travis, which won the Edinburgh Film Festival’s Audience Award. He also provides English subtitles for award-winning German films, including Oh Boy (aka A Coffee In Berlin) and Victoria.
Between 1998’s solo album and his death in 2019, Talk Talk singer Mark Hollis retreated into a reclusive, enigmatic silence. Aided by a new book and a documentary, we…
Sparks – 21st Century Sparks Collection review
A welcome invitation to reassess the oft-neglected but ingenious back catalogue amassed by the dynamic duo during this century’s first decade Given Edgar Wright’s documentary The Sparks Brothers and their…
Review: xPropaganda – The Heart Is Strange
Nearly 40 years after A Secret Wish, Propaganda’s frontwomen reunite with their producer to reclaim their rightful place among synth-pop’s finest… All that we see or seem is but a…
Making The Blue Nile: A Walk Across The Rooftops
They only made four albums in 20 years, so The Blue Nile’s every record is precious. but the Scottish trio’s debut, A Walk Across The Rooftops, offered an as yet…
The Specials: Protest Songs 1924-2012 review
Such was the excitement surrounding Terry Hall’s return to The Specials for 2019’s Encore that they swiftly reconvened in early 2020 to begin a new album. This – for obvious…