Now it’s the end of year again, time to review some albums released in 2014 from our beloved so-called Britpop scene. This year’s release activity is not as heavy as 2013, though there are some new singles thrown to the floor such as by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and The Charlatans, which may indicates […]
Johnny Marr’s ‘Playland’ Out October
Johnny Marr has announced details of his second solo album. Titled Playland, the follow-up to his 2013 solo debut The Messenger will be released on October 6, in conjunction with the lead single, ‘Easy Money.’ The album will be available on vinyl, CD, and digital formats. Marr’s sophomore album was written while on the road […]
Johnny Marr Working On Second Solo Album
Ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr recently revealed that he is working on the follow-up to his impressive 2013 solo debut, The Messenger. Marr says his new album, as yet untitled, will be released in September. ‘I’ve got a new record coming out in the end of September, the follow-up to last year’s,’ he told the NME. […]
Watch Morrissey and Johnny Marr be interviewed by children
This 1984 interview from the program Data Run brings a whole new understanding to the phrase, “A child could have done better.”
Another Smiths Memoir On The Way
As one quarter of the British rock group, the Smiths, Johnny Marr is one of the most influential guitarists of the past thirty years. His partnership with Morrissey is directly responsible for a huge amount of the music from the late 1980s and ’90s that we celebrate here every day. From the Stone Roses and […]
Best Dressed Britpop Bands
As all Britpop fans know it isn’t just the music which creates the overall scene, its the competition between bands to be the best dressed. In the 1960s we had The Kinks versus The Beatles, with The Small Faces and The Who leading the new smartly […]
Watch Johnny Marr at Glastonbury 2013
It took legendary guitarist Johnny Marr twenty-five years to release a bona fide solo album, but this year’s The Messenger was worth the wait. While we’re probably most familiar with the dulcet sounds of his Smiths compositions, he clearly has had nary a moment without some musical project since then. From Electronic to his own […]
Electric Picnic 2013
The tenth Electric Picnic will be held from 30 August to 1 September at Stradbally Estate in Ireland. The festival has one of the better line-ups of the season. Fatboy Slim and the Arctic Monkeys headline. Johnny Marr, Miles Kane, Franz Ferdinand, My Bloody Valentine, the Duckworth Lewis Method (of which the Divine Comedy’s Neil […]
Kendal Calling Festival 2013
In twelve days, Kendal Calling 2013 will kick off in the lush fields of Cumbria — Lowther Deer Park, to be exact. Of all the major festivals, this might be on the most outstanding bit of land. The park is a thousand years old and home to the offspring of a herd of deer originally […]
Johnny Marr Sings ‘There Is A Light…’
Johnny Marr’s set at yesterday’s Coachella included a bold choice, the Smiths’ classic, ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out.’ This is his most recent public performance of a Smiths song. Earlier in the year, he tried his hand at ‘How Soon Is Now?’ at the NME Awards. What do you think of his […]
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