Trigger Warning: This interview deals in parts with issues of abuse. Please read at your own discretion. In the comic book world, Dean Trippe is what you would call a comic book artist’s comic book artist. His work is highly stylised, recreating classic characters and scenes from the cornucopia of comic book lore, and casting a […]
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Withered Hand’s (aka Dan Willson) Good News album of five years ago now really struck a chord with me. It wasn’t just his aching falsetto or the ragged backdrop that was laced with self doubt, home, questioning of his place in the universe, or his way with a gorgeous tune; it was the lyrical complexity that […]
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Inspiring of both derision and affection the ‘Take That of Indie’ Menswe@r divided opinion in the mid 90s as now. Some see them as the superficial nadir of Britpop the band that were built on more hype than substance. Others are enamored by their sharply suited style and their bright, crafty tunes that followed […]
View Post Britpop Month on GIITTV, Johnny Dean, Menswe@r, Nuiscance
We spoke to Augustines‘ frontman Billy McCarthy (with brief but certainly valuable contributions from multi-instrumentalist Eric Sanderson and UK-born drummer Rob Allen) about the Brooklyn band’s rise to both excellence and fame with their new self-titled album and upcoming tour. /Talk me through the name changes from ‘Pela’ to ‘We Are Augustines’ to ‘Augustines’ […]
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Newport Power trio 60 ft Dolls had to be the most under appreciated of the so called ‘Cool Cymru’ wave. While the likes of Stereophonics, Gorkys, Catatonia, Super Furry Animals broke through to some extent, the Dolls bubbled under with great spiky songs like debut single ‘Happy Shopper’ about a transvestite in a discount store, ’Pig Valentine’, […]
View Post 60 ft Dolls, Britpop Month on GIITTV, Carl Bevan, Cool Cymru, Elliot Smith, Exit International, Novocaine, The Lash, TJs
Orginally published in 2007, we re-publish an interview with Devo’s Gerry Casale on the sad occasion of his brother Devo guitarist Bob Casale’s passing. When Gerry Casale and his brother Bob met fellow art students Bob Lewis and siblings Mark and Bob Mothersbaughin at Kent State University, they began to create pieces around the idea […]
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As we draw into the heart of Britpop Month on GIITTV, we shine the spotlight on another under appreciated band from the period Leicester’s Delicatessen. Crafting dark pop sound-suites over the space of three albums( 1995′s Skin Touching Water, Hustle Into Bed from 1996, and There’s No Confusing Some People in 1998), and filling them […]
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The Stow Film Lounge, alternative pop-up cinema in the heart of East London, Walthamstow, the end of the Victoria Line, is relatively young, having only been commercially trading since August 2012. After the closure of the EMD Cinema, with it being handed over to the church by the Odeon, there has been no cinema provision […]
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