Plan B – the archives 19: Ništa Nije Ništa

July 29, 2009

Nista

Not much to add except: love this band, love this interview. Well worth a quick click-through if you haven’t heard of them before. From Plan B #25 (clearly a vintage issue). Here’s a link to the original layout. As ever, thanks to Andrew Clare for his excellent design. (Incidentally, the photograph I’ve found to run with this article is the first photograph I’ve seen of this band.) Read the rest of this entry »


Plan B – the archives 18: The Tronics/Les Zarjaz

July 21, 2009

The Tronics

From Plan B #25 – a special request from Sarah Datblygu. This is round about the best email interview I’ve conducted.

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Plan B – the archives 17: Marine Girls

July 14, 2009

Thought I’d shove this up, to celebrate Marine Girls’ addition to this blog. This is reprinted from the second issue of Plan B (#0.5), which came out – when? – around the end of 2003.

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Plan B – the archives 16: Martha Wainwright

July 2, 2009

From Plan B #6. I’ve always liked this article, mainly cos the interview didn’t exactly get off to a flying start…

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Plan B – the archives 15: the final revenge of… Everett True

June 29, 2009

Plan B 46

The final issue has long since been done and dusted. I believe you can still buy back issues for cheap over here. It’s about time I reprinted the following, taken from – yes – issue 46.

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Plan B – the archives 14: Mount Eerie

June 25, 2009

After all this negativity, time to re-focus on the positive. From Plan B #8, the ever-wonderful Mount Eerie. The interview would have been conducted in Olympia while I was researching my Nirvana book.

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Careless Talk Costs Lives – the archives 2: The Slits live

June 15, 2009

To celebrate the fact The Slits are shortly to release their first new studio album (entitled Trapped Animal) in over 25 years – and yes, I’m nowhere near convinced that is a good idea – I thought I’d reprint this live review from Careless Talk Costs Lives #2.

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Plan B – the archives 13: Herman Düne

June 12, 2009

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A favourite of mine (we’re actually listening to this album right now). They played a concert in our front room once, y’know – I really must get round to releasing those tapes!

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Plan B – the archives 12: The Royal We

June 8, 2009

Another archive review.

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Careless Talk Costs Lives – the archives 1: The Vines live

June 6, 2009

Plan B – the archives 11: The Von Bondies interview

June 6, 2009

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This one is taken from the very first issue of Plan B.

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Plan B – the archives 10: Teenage Jesus And The Jerks

June 5, 2009

It’s that time of night again.

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Plan B – the archives 9: Kimya Dawson live

June 5, 2009

I need something to take away the bitter taste of having to listen to The Maccabees 10 minutes longer than I expected while my computer crashed three times – and this fits the bill.

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Plan B – the archives 8: Ronnie Spector interview

June 2, 2009

Yeah, well. This one was almost like dreaming.

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Plan B – the archives 7: El Perro Del Mar

June 1, 2009

This article is reprinted from Plan B 9.

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Plan B – the archives 6: The Drones interview

June 1, 2009

This article was my final interview for Plan B.

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Plan B – the archives 5: Johnnie Ray

May 31, 2009

Post-Daniel, another Plan B archive review to tide me over, least till I get some sleep.

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Plan B – the archives 4: Lee Hazelwood's final album

May 26, 2009

Well, I can’t let a day go by without a new update. Not till the baby arrives, anyway.

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Plan B – the archives 3: Jeremy Jay live

May 25, 2009

Can you tell that I’m sitting around, waiting for our baby to arrive?

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Plan B – the archives 2: Vivian Girls interview

May 25, 2009

For the second archive article from Plan B, I’d like to reproduce this – taken from issue 41, start of 2009.

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Plan B – the archives 1: Frida Hyvönen live

May 24, 2009

OK. I’m thinking I want to reprint some of my writing from Plan B Magazine.

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