Miscellaneous - June 2013

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published: 27 / 5 / 2013

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Hello and welcome to the June 2013 edition of the Pennyblackmusic Magazine. In a very full edition, our lead interview this month is with Dave Davies, the legendary guitarist with the Kinks, who talks about his just released

Hello and welcome to the June 2013 edition of the Pennyblackmusic Magazine. In a very full edition, our lead interview this month is with Dave Davies, the legendary guitarist with the Kinks, who talks about his just released sixth solo album 'I Will Be Me', and his fifty years in the music industry. Our other main interviews this month are with Simon Crowe, the drummer with 70's/80's punk/new wave giants the Boomtown Rats who speaks about his group's recent reformation; 60's folk icon Judy Collins; John O' Neill, the guitarist and main songwriter with the seminal Undertones, and Boston-based post-punks Mission of Burma. We are running a total of seventeen new interviews this month, and other highlights include rising jazz singer Rebecca Poole; Poltergeist, the new prog-rock influenced instrumental group of Echo & The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson; original Ultravox! front man John Foxx about his new band the Maths, and reformed 80’s indie/dance group the Woodentops. Amongst newer acts, there are interviews with the greatly underrated Nottingham-based group Lorna about their unusual combination of influences; Madrid-based heavy rock/punk act Layabouts; critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter Peter Bruntnell; Brighton-based folk pop outfit Laish; Leicestershire electronic duo Dark Dark Horse, and the ten-piece A Little Orchestra whose debut album ‘Clocks’ features contributions from Darren Hayman, ballboy's Gordon McIntyre and the Loves' Simon Love. We are also running interviews with influential photographer Sheila Goodwin, who chats about her new book ‘Punk +’, and Chicago-based sound engineer and podcaster Perry Bax, who worked with the Rolling Stones on their fortieth anniversary tour. There are sixteen live reviews and Photoscapes, and in our ‘Profiles’ section an obituary of the late Doors keyboardist, Ray Manzarek. Amongst our Regular Features, Andy Cassidy in ‘AC’s A-Z of Music’ has got to the letter ‘J’ and reflects on ‘Jugband Blues’, the last track on ‘A Saucerful of Secrets’, Syd Barrett’s second and final album with Pink Floyd. Gillian Fish writes about attending a secret Cribs gig in 2007 in ‘Gig of a Lifetime’. Ben Howarth in ‘Condemned to Rock ‘n’ Roll’ is under-impressed by Daft Punk’s much hyped new single ‘Get Lucky’, and Jon Rogers in ‘Hitting the Right Note’ finds equally uninspiring this year’s Glastonbury line-up. Spencer Robertshaw in ‘Evidently Spencertown’ meanwhile pays tribute to murdered soldier Lee Rigby. In our Re:View section, in which our writers look back at albums from the past, Jon Rogers reflects on the chaotic making of Liverpool post-punks the Teardrop Explodes' 1981 second and final album 'Wilder'. Our Website of the Month is ‘Beard Rock’, an alternative music and cultural website to which our writer Adrian Huggins also contributes. There are also thirty-two new album and single reviews. In our previous reviews only update we put online another seventeen reviews. Thank you to Carl Bookstein, Malcolm Carter, Andrew Carver, Andy Cassidy, Dan Cressey, Nick Dent-Robinson, Dixie Ernill, Gillian Fish, Tom Fogarty, Tony Gaughan, Dave Goodwin, Ben Howarth, Adrian Huggins, Adrian Janes, Spencer Robertshaw, Mark Rowland, Maarten Schiethart, Harry Sherriff, Anthony Strutt, Lisa Torem, Paul Waller and Denzil Watson, all of whom contributed articles to this edition or the reviews only update. Thank you also to Darren Aston and Marie Hazelwood. Special thanks to our webmaster Richard Banks for all his tireless work behind the scenes. We will be doing an album and singles reviews only update in late June and then will be doing our next big monthly up-date with interviews, features, live reviews and more album and single reviews in mid-July. We hope to run interviews then with Wayne Kramer, Luke Haines, Ghostpoet, They Might Be Giants, the Godfathers, Queensryche, the Handsome Family, Thalia Zedak, Chastity Brown, Kyte, the Short Stories and the Sex Pistols Experience. Thank you as always for reading Pennyblackmusic, John Clarkson, Magazine Editor www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk