SQÜRL: Meltdown Festival, London – Live Review

SQÜRL at the Royal Festival Hall was a gig with a difference: live music from 2023 accompanying Man Ray’s silent movies from 1923.

Arab Strap: EartH, London – Live Review

Arab Strap perform their 1998 album Philophobia’s songs of seedy sexual encounters and drunken disasters at EartH in Hackney.

Funkytown is a slice of cheesy disco fun that’s almost perfect in its simplicity – and the only hit for disco group Lipps Inc.

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The Barracudas’ only hit is almost perfect: a punk-propelled pastiche of a Sixties surf-pop song, complete with that opening radio ad to set the scene.

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The Corner is the standout track on Gold Panda’s latest album The Work – a smooth summer groove with a nice video shot in Berlin. Now it gets a new dimension in his remix featuring not one, not two but three rappers: Open Mike Eagle, Infinite Livez and McKinley Dixon.

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Rewind to 1995 and here, with a little assistance from Boy George, is Lippy Lou with her ragga-rave crossover coming-out anthem Liberation.

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I’ll admit I knew nothing about Zamrock – the musical fusion that came out of Zambia in the 1970s. So I never heard WITCH in their heyday.

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Tony McPhee never achieved the fame and fortune of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page or Jeff Beck, his fellow British guitarists to emerge from Britain’s blues boom in the 1960s.

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We all need an invigorating dose of primal rage every now and then… don’t we? Coach Party certainly do – and enjoy letting it out. 

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This song has history. In 1955 it gave Johnny Ace his biggest hit single… but only after his unusual death at the age of only 25.

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