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THE GOBLIN BAND: Jenny Vuglar reviews a performance at Cecil Sharp House on 4 December 2024

By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, bands, music, year 2024 0 • Tags: bands, Jenny Vuglar, music

Poetry review – INTERSTELLAR THEME PARK: Charles Rammelkamp accompanies Jack Skelley down a pop-culture memory lane

By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • bands, books, music, poetry reviews, year 2022 0 • Tags: bands, books, Charles Rammelkamp, music, poetry

According to her latest memoir, To Throw away Unopened, Viv Albertine is very, very angry. Her first, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys opens with the story of how she joined girl band The Slits in the late 1970’s with Ari Up, Tessa Pollitt and Palmolive to make music in the same riotous spirit of amateurism as their punk brothers, the Sex Pistols.

By Jane McChrystal • bands, books, music, year 2018 • Tags: bands, books, Jane McChrystal, music