Reviews
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (2005)
Ain't No Easy Way
Earthy Dylan-inspired acoustic new single from San Francisco distortion pioneers, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Engineers (2005)
Forgiveness
Easy listening indie rock from Wigan-vased four piece Engineers, who owe a debt to Slowdive
I Am Kloot (2004)
From Your Favourite Sky
Well-performed, but confusing new single from bubbling under Manchester trio, I am Kloot
Steven Lindsay (2007)
Kite
Beautiful-sounding and heartfelt electronica on second solo album from songwriter Steven Lindsay, the former frontman with the under-rated Glaswegian group the Big Dish
Related
Interviews
Baltic Fleet
Interview
The predominantly instrumental side project of Paul Fleming, the keyboard player with Echo and the Bunnymen, Baltic Fleet has just released its eponymous debut album. Anthony Strutt talks to him about it and how the bulk of tracks were written on the road when the Bunnymen were touring America
Baltic Fleet
Interview
Anthony Strutt speaks to ex-Echo and The Bunnymen keyboardist, Paul Fleming, about his years with the band, and ‘Towers’, the industrial-influenced second album of Baltic Fleet, his solo project
Les Pattinson
Interview
Les Pattinson talks to Anthony Strutt about his twenty years as bassist with Echo and the Bunnymen and joining his latest band, the Wild Swans
Echo and the Bunnymen
Interview with Ian McCulloch
Nick Dent-Robinson speaks to Ian McCulloch from Echo and the Bunnymen about his band's new album, 'Meteorites'
Eva Petersen
Interview
Marie Hazelwood chats to Liverpool-based singer-songwriter Eva Petersen about her infamous former band the Little Flames, and forthcoming debut solo album which she was written and recorded with Echo and the Bunnymen's Will Sergeant
Kelley Stoltz
Interview
Kelley Stoltz is a San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalist. Anthony Strutt speaks to him about 'Crockodials', his re-recording of Echo and the Bunnyme's 'Crocodials', his new album 'Below the Branches', and his early career working with Jeff Buckley
Damon Reece
Interview
A producer on his girlfriend ex-Cocteau Twin Elizabeth Fraser's new album, Damon Reece has also drummed with Echo and the Bunnymen, Spiritualized and helped to found Lupine Howl. He talks to Anthony Strutt about his interesting career.
Poltergeist
Interview
Echo and The Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant talks about Poltergeist, the new 70's progressive rock-influenced/post rock instrumental group, that he has formed with his main group's former bassist Les Pattinson, and their debut album, Your Mind is a Box (Let Us Fill It with Wonder)’
St Vitus Dance
Interview
Irish band St Vitus Dance have released after an absence of over twenty years their second album, 'Glypotheque'. Singer and guitarist Noel Burke speaks to Anthony Strutt about it and his time in the intervening years fronting Echo and the Bunnymen
Interview with Jacknife Lee
Eoghan Lyng speaks to Jacknife Lee about Telefis’s second and final album Telefís A Do’, collaborating on it with Echo and the Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant and Microdisney’s Sean O’Hagan, and his friendship with his late bandmate Cathal Coughlan.
Photoscapes
Arctic Monkeys
Marie Hazelwood photographs the Arctic Monkeys at the Echo Arena in Liverpool
Arctic Monkeys
Echo Arena, Liverpool, 9/11/2011
Richard Lewis watches the Arctic Monkeys play a fiery and crowd-pleasing show at the Liverpool Echo Arena
Empire, Liverpool, 25/3/2024
Paul Clark watches a flawed but compelling set from Echo And The Bunnymen at a hometown gig at the Liverpool Empire.
Royal Centre, Nottingham, 12/9/2023
Dave Goodwin at the Royal Centre in Nottingham watches Echo and The Bunnymen with the help of the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra play in a stunning set their 1984 fourth album 'Ocean Rain' in its entirety.
Echo and the Bunnymen
Brixton Academy, London, 9/12/2010
At the Brixton Academy in London, Anthony Strutt watches Echo and the Bunnymen in a nostalgic, but perfect set play back-to-back their first two albums, 'Crocodiles' and 'Heaven Up Here'
Guilfest Part 1
Guildford, Surrey, 21/7/2002
Anthony Strutt enjoys a perfect day out at his first ever Guilfest and sets from Squeeze frontman Glenn Tilbrook ; Cure tribute band the Cureheads plus two of his favourite bands of all time Echo and the Bunnymen ....
Echo and the Bunnymen
London Royal Festival Hall, 3/2/2002
Anthiny Strutt finds Echo and the Bunnymen, despite a sick Ian McCulloch, in great mform on the second night of a British tour to promote their new album 'Live in Liverpool'j
Echo and the Bunnymen
Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, 30/11/2003
It is 25 years since Echo and the Bunnymen first formed. On a Greatest Hits tour to celeberate this, and the re-release of their first five albums, Anthony Strutt watches them roll back the years in great style
Echo And The Bunnymen
Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 23/5/2018
John Clarkson at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh watches Echo and The Bunnymen play a gripping set which finds them reinterpreting for a new album their back catalogue with a strings section.
Kelley Stoltz
Brixton Academy, London, 9/12/2010
Anthony Strutt at the Brixton Academy in London watches New York-based singer-songwriter Kelley Stoltz play an impressive support slot for his favourite band of all time, Echo and the Bunnymen
Cornbury Festival
Great Tew Park, Oxfordshire,, 4/7/2013...7/7/2013
Nick Dent-Robinson is impressed by Oxfordshire's Cornbury Festival, which saw headline performances from Van Morrison, Echo and the Bunnymen and Squeeze, as well as excellent sets from 'Downtown Abbey' actress Elizabeth McGovern's band Sadie and the Hotheads and Scottish duo Hunter and The Bear
Photoscapes
Liverpool Music Week 1
In a two part photographic feature on Liverpool Music Week, which took place at the end of last year, Marie Hazelwood takes photographs of indie bands Big Deal, the Duke Spirit and Echo Lake...
iLiKETRAiNS
Metro, London, 28/6/2006
Anthony Strutt is reminded of the the swagger of Echo and the Bunnymen and the Hope of the States as he is blown away by a show by leeds five piece iLIKETRAiNS at a show at the Metro in London
Albums
Feeder
Echo Park
In the latest in our 'Re : View' series, in which our writers look back at albums from the past, new Pennyblackmusic writer Sara Thomson reflects on Feeder's 2001 third album, 'Echo Park'
Features
Echo And The Bunnymen
Ten Songs That Made Me Love...
In our series, in which our writers celebrate ten songs that made them love a favourite band or artist, Cila Warncke raises a glass to Liverpudlian post-punks Echo And The Bunnymen
Jonathan Beckett
Vinyl Stories
Dave Goodwin in 'Vinyl Stories' makes another epic delve into the world of vinyl as he raids Moscow Circus' lead singer/songwriter Jonathan Beckett's record box and finds Echo and The Bunnymen, REM, The Blue Nile and other twelve inch treats