The producer behind some of the most important records of the past four decades began studio life carrying cups of tea. Mark Ellis was a junior staffer at Morgan Studios…
In 1973, Stephen Mallinder (universally known, simply, as Mal) joined a musical collective that included two friends, Richard H. Kirk and Chris Watson. The top song on the charts that…
Cabaret Voltaire’s new live album, But What Time Is It Really?, arrives with a lot of history on its shoulders and very little sentimentality in its delivery. Recorded on the…
Sheffield’s industrial pioneers are packing up their pedals, tape-loops, and sequencers. Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson have confirmed a live album, But What Time Is It Really?, will be released…
We are in the year of the fortieth anniversary of Play It Again Sam Records. It is also the year that Bruce Geduldig, Tuxedomoon’s visuals artist, would have turned 70.…
Creative rebellion is the theme of The Horror Show. The exhibition at Somerset House captures the art of punks, witches and conceptual artists in a three act show filled with…
The howl of human misery is Mark Stewart’s fellow traveller. It is in his voice. It is in his words. Even when he lets love lead the way (e.g., the…
Eric Random‘s role in alternative music is sometimes lost in the liner notes: here he is playing tablas on Cabaret Voltaire’s Micro-Phonies; there he is adding adding texture on the…