#UK music

[esoteric44ngel]

[niattl]

Joy Division while touring in 1978. Eric's, Liverpool.

[socumonfeelthenoize]

Liam Gallagher, Oasis at Maine Road, Night 2, 1996

[macherielaila]

[afrofeministe]

Sampha x i-D Magazine / Photo Frank Lebon

[discover-underground-bands]

idk if they count as underground, but cheap dirty horse!

spotify / youtube / bandcamp

they are touring!

[moonfirebrides]

Des'Ree

[maracllea]

WRAPPED 2022 videography | 27/101 | NOVA TWINS athena [no official mv]

[aeolianblues]

Shoutout to the two pillars of unabashedly horny-on-main British music, Jarvis Cocker and Alex Kapranos

[11oh1]

[manicpixiedepressedwitch]

[esoteric44ngel]

2007

[fatally-alive]

Placebo's Nancy Boy kicked against the "laddism" of Britpop

In the middle of the "new laddism" that saw magazines like Loaded and FHM set the agenda, Molko was a defiantly androgynous figure - he wore glamorous make-up and "feminine" clothing when his peers were more likely to be dressed sports casual. Molko's lyrics were similarly provocative when it came to sexuality, relationships and drugs.

"A lot of our cross-dressing was a political statement against the music scene at the time which was very laddish and macho," Molko told Kerrang! in 2009. "We wanted to stand up and be counted. There's no better way to do that than by putting a bunch of slap on, wearing a skirt and f**king with people's heads. People hated us for it and I adored that."

RadioX

[socumonfeelthenoize]

NME double special Christmas covers, December 1995. Ft. Liam Gallagher and Damon Albarn

[sunburnacoustic]

Stairway to Devon

An article on the documentary on BBC Radio 1 narrated by Steve Lamacq (Radio 1's Evening Sessions), broadcast on 31 May 2004.

Muse's Matt Bellamy believes we've been cloned from aliens, and that we receive subliminal instructions from the government via mobile phones. 'Stairway to Devon' takes you into the peculiar world of Muse and the influences behind their latest album, 'Absolution'. 

Dan Martin - NME "I think the reason that we started talking about 'Absolution' in such hyperbolic terms is because everything about the record is completely to the extreme. Certainly the first track, 'Apocolypse Please', it actually says 'this is the end of the world'.

Matt Bellamy - Muse "'Origin Of Symmetry' came from a book called 'Hyperspace'. When I read that book I found that the truths about science are sometimes more fantastical and exciting than some of the lies of previous religions."

Verity Sharp - BBC Radio 3 "There's a lot of feeling in there. There's a real commitment and he's being quite honest about what he wants to do because he is going to get a lot of criticism for doing this sort of thing but he's got the guts to do it and I respect that. I think he's being harsh on himself to say that he's a chimpanzee in relation to Rachmaninov - he shouldn't put himself down."

Matt Bellamy - Muse "I'd rather set my sights as a musician way higher than what I think I can ever achieve. I know that those piano players are so far beyond my own mathematical and emotional understanding of music, that I like having a goal. I know that I'll never get there but it means that I'll keep trying."

Dennis Smith - Muse Manager "When I went first to see them at a little show in a Cornish venue I recognised that there was something very special. Matthew has an incredible range of thoughts, he's got such a restless, imaginative and creative mind. An older head on much younger shoulders is how I've always seen him."

Dan Martin - NME "They don't care and, to be fair, they never have cared. He goes around talking about space and the end of the world. If you're going to talk about these things then you have to be prepared that people are going to think it's ridiculous... and people do."

External links on here link to a recent Muse live review, muse.mu and Jim Marrs' website.

[lightspeedhunter]

New Wave, published in October 2007 by Actuel Panama

A true bible for anyone wishing to know everything about New Wave and its amazing creative energy embracing music, photography, fashion, architecture, etc...

Conceived and published under the supervision of late Jean-François Bizot who is remembered as one of the major enthusiasts/promoters of the New Wave scene.