Laibach: From Mount Paektu to Shepherds Bush
LAIBACH 02 SHEPHERD’S BUSH EMPIRE LONDON, 1 MARCH 2019 Laibach might seem bonkers. They might even be bonkers. But there is a lot of method behind their staging of The…
LAIBACH 02 SHEPHERD’S BUSH EMPIRE LONDON, 1 MARCH 2019 Laibach might seem bonkers. They might even be bonkers. But there is a lot of method behind their staging of The…
Thomas Leer and Robert Rental accidentally made one of the most compelling and influential albums of the 1970s. While disco and punk faded around them, they locked themselves in an…
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When John Fryer knocked on the doors of Blackwing Studios in South London, looking for a job, he didn’t know that he was walking onto history’s stage. On his first…
Frank Tovey made art ahead of its time but didn’t stay long enough to see the world catch up to it. As Fad Gadget, his gadfly alter ego, Tovey came…
Born in the suburb of South Woodford and raised in Basildon, Vince Clarke could have ended up as a cab driver or worked at Ford’s Essex plant, but instead he…