Shine On: Paul Kendall
Paul Kendall has been moving through British music history since the late 1970s, quietly altering its signal path. He was a member of a post-punk band, Dry Rib, before an…
Paul Kendall has been moving through British music history since the late 1970s, quietly altering its signal path. He was a member of a post-punk band, Dry Rib, before an…
The Jean-Marc Lederman Experience returns with a new set of material. The theme, this time, is a throwback to the synthetic sounds of Lederman’s formative years. Lederman escaped Brussels and…
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.…
A documentary about Frank Tovey’s Grand Union album with The Pyros, in which he is interviewed by Savage Pencil and frolics with goats, comments on Canary Wharf and gives us…
Jean-Marc Lederman’s career in music has covered a lot of ground: from playing with Fad Gadget and The The to sound design for video games; from reinventing alternative dance music…
We are immense fans of Fad Gadget/Frank Tovey here at Cold War Night Life, so finding this treasure from 1982 is a source of great happiness. The clip is from…
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…
Daniel Miller is best known as the owner of Mute Artists (formerly Mute Records, but the original name didn’t come with the sale by EMI) and as The Normal, the…
Way back in the early 1980s, a trend arose for smashing pieces of metal and organising the resulting sound into ambient urban soundscapes or dance tracks. Berlin’s Einstürzende Neubauten arguably…