Blancmange: Joining All The Dots

Blancmange have released some terrific albums in recent years – and ‘Private View’ is up there with their very best. In a hugely entertaining and highly revealing interview, frontman Neil Arthur gives the inside story on the band’s latest record and also talks art, swimming, dead men’s suits, recycling, smudged bindis, inflatable whales, luck, love, loss… and how everything is connected

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Bob Fischer

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: Razzle Dazzle

byWyndham Wallace

Commercial failures, artistic triumphs and overdue celebrations… On the eve of two exclusive live shows, Andy McCluskey discusses ‘Dazzle Ships’, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’s often overlooked 1983 masterpiece

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Thomas Dolby: This Charming Man

byBob Fischer

In 1984, Thomas Dolby’s ‘The Flat Earth’ album saw him outgrow his persona as MTV’s favourite “outgoing boffin” and flourish into a songwriter of impressive versatility. With an expanded digital version recently released, is he still “hyperactive now he’s grown”? He may be more reflective, but as he explains, life still has its fair share of adventure and excitement

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13 minute read

Andrew Weatherall: “Getting a groove going in a cloud of smoke”

byBen Gilbert

The inside story of ‘Phonox Nights’, the forthcoming album from Andrew Weatherall and Nina Walsh’s Woodleigh Research Facility project, which includes some of Weatherall’s final original recordings

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8 minute read

Late Night Final: The Wee Small Hours

byVel Ilic

Stuck in the UK with no equipment during lockdown, Public Service Broadcasting’s J Willgoose, Esq started experimenting to pass the time. The result is Late Night Final, a fascinating side project devised for the very darkest of hours

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7 minute read

Radionics: Making Waves

byBen Murphy

The healing power of sound waves, or Radionics, is as fascinating as it is bonkers. The wild and wonderful machines built by Oxford-based scientist George De La Warr were never intended as instruments, but they went on to inspire electronic pioneer Daphne Oram. We meet researcher and musician Daniel Wilson who tells us De La Warr’s incredible tale…

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8 minute read

Richard Sen: Richard The First

byBen Gilbert

The debut solo album from revered DJ and producer Richard Sen is a collection of questing cosmic house and disco that explores his ancestral roots and cements his reputation as a creative polymath. Strap in for one heck of a backstory…

Blancmange: Joining All The Dots

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Bob Fischer

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: Razzle Dazzle

Thomas Dolby: This Charming Man

Andrew Weatherall: “Getting a groove going in a cloud of smoke”

Late Night Final: The Wee Small Hours

Radionics: Making Waves

Richard Sen: Richard The First

John Keenan

Ultramarine ‘Stella’

Cian Ciaran ‘Ice Hockey Hair’

Veryan: Go Wild

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan: Care In The Community

William Orbit: True Colours

Gerald V Casale: Rage Against the Machine

Throbbing Gristle: Art Throbs

Blancmange: Joining All The Dots

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