Tag Archives / inspiration

Oh you Pretty Things

Greetings dear reader, what’s new? Well, The Pretty Things are performing at Leeds’ Brudenell Social Club on 23rd September. They are, of course, those of seminal 1968 concept album “S.F. Sorrow” fame. Recorded at Abbey Road a number of months after Sgt. Pepper’s.. and released in a week that saw The Stones, Beatles and Kinks [...]

Reading between the lines

Hello Reader, Drowned In Sound have now added the two-part iLiKELiTERATURE features. Part 1 features the mix-tape put together  by Dave iLT which features our very own “The Wild Hunt”. There’s some fantastic tracks on the compilation, with commentary from the artists responsible. Part 2 features an interview with the songwriters who contributed to the [...]

JG RIP

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As we Twittered/Tweeted(?) yesterday, the passing of JG Ballard resonated both in the music world as well as the literary world. There is a decent article here talking about Ballard’s influence on music, by looking into some of the fantastic music it inspired. The Manic Street Preachers were also into him too, it appears.

Clement Freud

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Sad news about the death of Clement Freud. He was a one-off, he had a keen eye for the ridiculous and one of THE great raconteurs. If you haven’t already, you should get your hands on any of the Just A Minute episodes he appeared in to enjoy his unique ability to light up the [...]