Solicitor known as Mr Loophole makes passionate defence of Stone Roses frontman
King Lear, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
Monday 17 October 2011
King Lear is a daunting prospect for any actor – so too for an audience. Uncompromising, dark and sprawling.
Album: Radiohead, KOL RMX 1234567 (XL)
Friday 07 October 2011
If Radiohead's The King of Limbs wasn't quite abstruse enough for you, then this could be just what you're waiting for: 19 remixes of its eight tracks by dubstep and avant-rock producers – the best-known being Caribou, Four Tet and Modeselektor – most of whom seem to adopt the inscrutable manner of "Feral", whichever track they're remixing.
Song Intros: It's the start of something amazing
Friday 22 July 2011
Ex-Stone Roses singer Ian Brown has driving charge dropped
Tuesday 07 December 2010
Former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown was told he was "free to go" by a court today after prosecutors dropped a driving charge against him.
NME Godlike Genius award for Modfather Paul Weller
Tuesday 09 February 2010
Chart veteran Paul Weller is to receive a top honorary prize at this year's NME Awards, the annual Godlike Genius title, it was announced today.
The Secret Garden, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
Thursday 07 January 2010
There are no silver bells, cockle shells or pretty maids but Mary's garden grows enchantingly in this new musical version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel. Mary, nimbly portrayed by Jayne Wisener, is certainly a contrary little girl. She's as rudely dismissive of her ayah in India as she is of the maid Martha Sowerby whom she encounters when, suddenly orphaned, she's shipped to England.
Observations: Dancing under the covers at new Shoreditch club night
Friday 02 October 2009
The chirps, buzzes, choral harmonies and fuzzy bass-lines of the Los Angeles synth-pop duo the Bird & the Bee's cover of Rihanna's floor-filler "Don't Stop the Music" epitomise the soundtrack at Cover to Cover, a new club night in London's Shoreditch. The idea behind the night, held in the Queen of Hoxton on Curtain Road, is piled on zeal for great cover versions. We're not talking Mike Flowers on "Wonderwall", more Ian Brown murmuring through "Thriller" or "Billy Jean", or the Bronx – a hardcore outfit from Brooklyn – bouncing along to Prince's "I Would Die for You".
The Word On - Ian Brown, My Way
Friday 02 October 2009
"There's an easy mastery of things previously introduced. The string beds, the mariachi horns, the deep mystical groove, they're all elements which have appeared in isolation on separate outings, but here are brought together in spectacular fashion." - musicomh.com
Album: Ian Brown, My Way, (Fiction)
Sunday 27 September 2009
Regrets? He's had a few. But then again...
Album: Ian Brown, My Way (Polydor)
Friday 25 September 2009
Ian Brown's sixth solo album – which, it's worth noting, is three times the total output of The Stone Roses – follows in much the same vein as its immediate predecessors Solarized and The World Is Yours.








