Fela Kuti: The King of Afrobeat, Part Two
Part Two of the interview with one of my musical heroes led down a much darker, and more misogynistic, route and left me disagreeing with his neanderthal views on women and homosexuals.
Fela Kuti: The King of Afrobeat Interviewed, Part 1
Despite his death over a decade ago, Fela Kuti is undergoing something of a resurgence with the re-release of his back catalogue and the award-winning musical, Fela. Here’s part one of an archive interview with the great man…
Taking Dad To Visit His WWll Ghosts In Arnhem
A heartfelt tale of one man taking his elderly father for a pilgrimage back to the battlefields of Arnhem and Oosterbeek in the Netherlands.
Paul Gascoigne: My Hero
Gazza reveals the full extent of his battle with alcohol on ITV tonight. But despite the arrests, the trips to clinics and the worrying behaviour he’s still the man for me…
A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga Of The Smiths - Reviewed
They may have only been around for five years, but their legacy is as strong today as it ever was. A weighty new biography looks at the highs and lows of Morrissey and co…
The Passing Of A Prophet - Speaking With Gil Scott-Heron in 1986
An interview in a hazy west London hotel room with the man himself proved that the legend of Gil Scott-Heron will always live on…
Newcastle United Legend Shearer: The Monotonous Voice of Reason
It’s easy to side with Joey Barton and mock Shearer but his values are actually more valid than he’s given credit for.
Meetings With Morrissey
At the dawn of the 21st Century Morrissey was beginning to look like history. He hadn’t released a new album for over two years (after Maladjusted had been critically savaged), he had no record company deal, there were rumours of deep depression and, worst of all, the 1998 court case with Smiths’ drummer Mike Joyce had ended in utter calamity.