Sleeve notes for the re-issue of The Trees’ “On The Shore” - February 2007 Sleevenotes - February 1st, 2007

If you are about to listen to On The Shore for the first time, then you are to be envied. In an era of mass communication and commercial misappropriation, there are few genuinely lost treasures left to be discovered. But On The Shore, the second and final album from the English folk rock band Trees,…

Richard Youngs – May – Jagjaguwar - February 2007 Mojo Magazine - February 1st, 2007

Richard Youngs is a forty year old librarian, transplanted from a childhood in Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire to Glasgow, from where he maintains musical connections with an international network of similarly independent, but musically disparate, cult figures. The first Richard Youngs album I ever heard was Making Paper. It was released in February 2001 on the…

Arthur Machen - February 2007 Rejected Piece - February 1st, 2007

The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction pictures Albert Camus smoking a cigarette on the cover, and struggles to define its terms. A cult writer should have died, ideally in mysterious circumstances, leaving behind one seminal work and a whiff of wasted potential. The obscure Welsh mystic Arthur Machen, (1863-1947) almost qualifies as a cult, but…

LONDON LIFES 2 – PETER TASSELEDBAT - January 2007 What's On In London - By Stewart Lee - January 30th, 2007

Peter Tasseledbat is the head of Endemetriol Productions, the London based production company responsible for a host of hit Channel 4 shows including Teen Street, Street Slag, Shit Street, Teen Shit, Street Teen, Slag Shit, Teen Slag, Slag Teen, Street Shit, Shit Teen, Slag Street, Shit Slag, The Friday Night Project, Big Brother and Celebrity…

LONDON LIFES 1 – DAVE MARSHY - January 2007 What's On In London - By Stewart Lee - January 23rd, 2007

Dave Marshy lives in N16 and works for Foxley’s, a large estate agent with branches all over London. He is 29 years old. Every morning I go down to Starbucks for a coffee and a tiny biscuit. It used to be a second hand bookshop, but we hiked up the rent and sold it to…

John Martyn - January 2007 The Sunday Times - January 21st, 2007

John Martyn’s 70’s, folk-fusion experiments with the echoplex guitar pedal have led to the lazy byline, ‘godfather of trip-hop’, but this is to damn him with ludicrously feint praise. The Don’t Look Back series of concerts, in which artists perform an album from beginning to end, encouraged Martyn to revisit his finest hour, 1973’s Solid…