Category Archives: the alcoves

Postal Service, “I am a visitor here” badges

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

If you happened to be at the rather excellent Postal Service gig last Saturday (18th May 2013) at Manchester Academy 2, you may well have ended up with one of the 100 “I am a visitor here” badges (left) which … Continue reading →

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds live on KCRW (44 minutes, streamed)

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

44 excellent minutes of Nick Cave live on KCRW radio. Nick Cave can do whatever he wants. His dark menacing persona and gorgeously sinister baritone have made him untouchable – on pretty much every level — over many years in … Continue reading →

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“The Five Most Disappointing Goth Albums: The Cure, Wild Mood Swings”

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

Following on from Siouxsie’s “The Rapture”, here’s a great analysis of a really disappointing Cure LP. As we proved in Monday’s entry in the series, the mid-’90s wasn’t an easy time for the pioneers of the goth genre. On the one … Continue reading →

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Siouxsie, Ian Curtis, Robert Smith (and more) get superhero makeovers

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

BAM! KAPOW! Brazilian designer Butcher Billy re-imagines Siouxsie Sioux, Mark Mothersbaugh, Ian Curtis, John Lydon, Morrissey, Robert Smith and Billy Idol as comic book superheroes. His series is called The Post-Punk / New Wave Super Friends.

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Mick Harvey interview

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

Excellent Quietus interview with the fantastically talented Mick Harvey… Mick Harvey laughs a lot. Like, an awful lot. Mostly at the end of his own sentences, like an exclamation mark punctuating his thoughts. His laugh bursts out at unexpected moments, … Continue reading →

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Gary Numan “The People’s Songs, Are ‘Friends’ Electric? – A Dystopian Vision”, BBC Radio 2, tonight

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

And then presumably on iPlayer… A chart-topping hit single, but one which took seven weeks to reach the top, and a song whose composer claimed had “no recognisable hook-line whatsoever”. And if that didn’t exactly smack of mass appeal, the … Continue reading →

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“The Five Most Disappointing Goth Albums: Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Rapture”

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

Difficult to argue with this one… By the time Siouxsie and the Banshees released The Rapture in 1995, they had been together for almost two decades. They’d blazed a path with a dark and daring sound that still had just … Continue reading →

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Tim Pope is home…

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

Tim Pope is back from his South American jaunt with the Cure… How lovely to be home again and to hear the peaceful sounds of the English countryside after my mad adventure with The Cure in South America. What an … Continue reading →

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“The Crassical Collection” – excellent Crass retrospective

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

I really like Crass, and this retrospective from Isolation Records is excellent.  Here’s the review for my personal favourite… Stations Of The Crass 1979 Crass’s second album was a double vinyl disc affair – three sides of studio recordings and … Continue reading →

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“Urban Primitive” – a short film by Youth

Posted on May 13, 2013 by
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