Pennyblackmusic: November 2021

World Party

World Party mainman Karl Wallinger looks back on the band’s career from its 1987 inception, focusing on acclaimed 1990 LP ‘Goodbye Jumbo’ which has recently been reissued.

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Hello and welcome to the November edition of the Pennyblackmusic Magazine. Our Bands Nights have been a part of our work for almost twenty years, and we have organised shows during that time in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and above all in London. We are returning there to the Water Rats in Kings Cross for a show that was originally booked in early 2020, but was postponed twice because of the pandemic and will now hopefully finally go ahead on the 29th January. It is a sort of summary of some of our previous highlights, as all of the acts who are playing have been on previous bills exc ....more

We preview the next Pennyblackmusic Bands Night which will take place with Idiot Son, Morton Valence, The Volunteered and Simon Bromide at The Water Rats in London on the 29th January 2022.

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In her series, 'A Life in Music', in which she speaks to Pennyblackmusic staff about how music has affected and influenced them, Cila Warncke talks to our photographer and writer Andrew Twambley .

In his regular column ‘In Dreams Begin Responsibilities’ Steve Miles reflects on the themes of anxiety and depression in the lyrics of the Only Ones’ Peter Perrett.

Andrew Twambley takes photographs of legendary singer-songwriter Steve Harley with the latest line-up of his band tCockney Rebel at the Lowther Pavilion in Lytham St Anne's.

Amanda J Window photographs Dublin-based post-punk band Fontaines DC at the Manchester Academy.

Andrew Twambley photographs 10cc's Graham Gouldman with his acoustic Heart Full of Songs four-piece at a the Royal Northern College of Music.

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