Got the new issue of Classic Rock - it had a feature on Kate Bush + stuff on upcoming things that mentioned Billy Idol is due to release his memoirs soon. They also had Slash doing some sort of diary thing on the making of his new album + a review of the new Johnny Thunders documentary. And best of all, they had a feature on Jane's Addiction (who I ( Read more... )

Got new issue of Vive Le Rock which had a big feature on 1979 including interviews w/The Damned + Tony James of Generation X (later Sigue Sigue Sputnik) + articles on Heavy Metal Kids (Gary Holton from Auf Wiedersen Pet was the singer w/them) + Rubella Ballet. Plus a short piece on Nina Hagen + an obituary fro Scott Asheton of The Stooges and an ( Read more... )

Got latest issue of Vive Le Rock which had a big feature on Glam (mainly 70s stuff) which included an all too brief interview w/Jayne County (I must re-read her book sometime) plus in the sidebar on artists who didn't really make it they mentioned Jobriath (I'm sure someone did a documentary on him + I really want to see it) + The Hollywood Brats ( ( Read more... )

Finished reading this and I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. RH is perhaps best known for being part of the New York punk scene in the 70s and being in bands like Television, The Heartbreakers (w/Johnny Thunders) and The Voidoids. He finally kicked his heroin addiction in the mid 80s and left his music career behind to become a writer ( Read more... )

Also got the new issue of Vive Le Rock as it had a massive feature on Johnny Thunders - also had article on Thin Lizzy and interviews w/The Alarm, Adam Ant, Johnny Marr and Lydia Lunch (who really needs a big retrospective article in the likes of Mojo or Uncut immediately ( Read more... )

I have a new computer and I'm busy trying to get used to it, I'd had my last one about 6 or 7 years so this is all shiny + new. Also been madly busy the last couple of days with my brother sorting out my mum's flat so that she can hopefully move into a nursing home in the next few weeks - I'm now convinced her one bedroom flat was some sort of ( Read more... )