Miscellaneous - November 2008

  by Admin

published: 10 / 11 / 2008

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Hello and welcome to the November edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine. After our 10th anniversary edition of last month, we have a more regular magazine this month and our usual range of interviews, features and reviews. Our lead interview this month is with David Thomas

Hello and welcome to the November edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine. After our 10th anniversary edition of last month, we have a more regular magazine this month and our usual range of interviews, features and reviews. Our lead interview this month is with David Thomas from Pere Ubu. Thomas has recently opened Hearpen, a download site for Pere Ubu and other associated products. He talks to Mark Rowland about why his dislike of MP3 audio market has compelled him to establish it and also his musical career. Our other main interviews this month are with Mickey Gallagher, the keyboardist with Ian Dury and the Blockheads, about the band's new singles box set ; emo post-hardcore band Fightstar who have recently celebrated their fifth year anniversary by touring with Feeder, and Ted Barnes, Beth Orton's former guitarist, who has just released 'Portal Nou !', his third solo album. We also have new interviews this month with Brighton-based singer-songwriter Chris TT ; intense Swedish rockers Sounds Like Violence ; David Eugene Edwards, the former lead singer with the indefinable 16 Horsepower and now Woven Hand, and Teeside-based abstract indie pop group, Das Wanderlust. In our features section there are profiles of Hello Saferide, the project of young Swedish singer-songwriter Annika Norlin, and London club night How Does It Feel to Be Loved. There are also reviews on new DVDs, 'We Dreamed America', a documentary about the Americana genre in Britain, and the 'Arctic Monkeys At the Apollo', a concert film shot at the Manchester Apollo at the end of a tour in 2007. There are live reviews of gigs from Killing Joke, Wire, the Last Shadow Puppets, Calexico, Of Montreal, Tindersticks, Amanda Palmer, Puressence, Hot Club de Paris, Fightstar, Emmy the Great, ---- Buttons, the Kids and Glasvegas. In our feature sections in the latest instalment in his 'Condemned to Rock 'n' Roll'column, Ben Howarth assesses the merits of Girls Aloud, Leona Lewis and other current top charting acts. In our Re : View section, in which we look back at classic albums, we re-examine the Lost Soul Band's under appreciated first album from 1993, 'The Land Of Do As You Please', while our Website of the Month is Popdose, a new website that amalgamates together the talents and webpages of several experienced music bloggers and other writers. There are also 32 album and single reviews. We ran a further 32 album and single reviews in the mid-month up-date. A belated welcome to new writer Rachel Williams. Rachel is a journalist and London-based music fan. Rachel contributed the Re : View of Heavenly's 'P.U.N.K. Girl EP' and the profile this month of How Does It Feel to Be Loved. We have another new writer as well this month, Laura Holt, who wrote the Emmy the Great live review. Laura is also a London-based journalist. Thank you to Rachel and Laura. Thank you to Peter Allison, Aaron Brown, Malcolm Carter, Andrew Carver, Dixie Ernill, Russell Ferguson, Tommy Gunnarsson, Ben Howarth, Adrian Huggins, Sarah Johnson, Anthony Middleton, Sarah Mwangi, Chris O’ Toole, Jon Rogers, Jamie Rowland, Mark Rowland, Maarten Schiethart, Kelly Smith, Anthony Strutt, Helen Tipping and Denzil Watson, all of whom contributed articles to either this edition or the mid-month up-date. Thank you too to Neil Bailey for the Chris T-T photos and Katie Anderson for the Fightstar ones. Special thanks to our webmaster Richard Banks at Pennyblackmusic HQ for all his support. There will be a reviews up-date in maid November. We will then be back in December with interviews hopefully with the Damned, Adrian Edmondson, Jay Reatard, Jim Sclavunos from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Neil Halstead, Springhouse, International Jetsetters, Magic 12 and Anna Kashfi. There will be the Pennyblackmusic Albums of the Year and the usual range of profiles, features, live reviews and album and single reviews. Thank you as always for reading. John Clarkson Magazine Editor www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk