Dave Simpson
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- Sep 9, 2026
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‘Would they fight or hug?’ The Oasis comeback film’s makers on shooting fans, vicars, police – and the Gallaghers - AOL (opens the original)
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On 4 July last year, Oasis were all set to start the first gig of their hugely anticipated comeback, 16 years since the band imploded after Liam Gallagher swung a guitar in the direction of brother Noel’s head backstage in Paris. However, just 20 minutes before showtime, there was no sign of the singer. Some 74,500 fans in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium were going crazy, while Noel was left impatiently pacing around the venue’s loading bay, presumably wondering if everything was about to fall ap
‘Why not try to be the best in the world, just for the fun of it?’ Art Garfunkel on a rich, restless life – and reconciling with Paul Simon - AOL (opens the original)
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As Art Garfunkel is keen to point out, “I am a singer – there, use that as the title of your article” – but he was never just a singer. “I’ve been an actor. I am a writer,” he continues. “I’ve walked across countries, taken freighters across oceans. I’ve read the dictionary. I’ve read two books a month for 60 years: Darwin, Herodotus, Balzac, Proust, Tolstoy. I’ve taught maths. I have two great kids and I’m a great father, but it always does seem to come back to the singing.” Which is understand
‘I put a raging dent in Neil Young’s forehead!’ Tim Pope on his riotous videos for the Cure, Bowie, Queen, Soft Cell and more - AOL (opens the original)
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As video director to the stars in the golden age of MTV, Tim Pope’s trademark was putting his very famous clients in uncomfortable or dangerous situations. He dressed Freddie Mercury as a “giant Mediterranean prawn”, locked the Cure in a flooded wardrobe then chucked it off a cliff, and almost electrocuted two Psychedelic Furs. “The core of my work seems to be sadism,” he chuckles. “I have wondered if it was all some sort of revenge for the brutality I suffered away at primary school, but maybe
Loathe: A Stranger to You review – metalcore masters offer stylistic swerves and surprising beauty - AOL (opens the original)
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Loathe took six years to make this fourth album, explaining they wanted to make it very special. Accordingly, A Stranger to You ventures far from the Liverpudlians’ metalcore origins to create an odyssey of mixed and colliding genres. Punishing riffola and slabs of industrial noise coexist with balm-like electronics, acoustic guitars, shoegaze, tinkling jazz pianos and guest rapper Bucki Sugar’s spoken-word narratives (“ever forward, forever motion”). Other guests include vocalist Olli Appleyard
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