AUGUST 2023
ISSUE NO: 547
Ghoul Summer! Robert Smith, Siouxsie & The Rebirth Of Goth547 August In this issue: Goth Special! Everything you need to know about The Cure, Siouxsie, Bauhaus et al; in conversation with Martin Fry of ABC; Kevin Rowland on the new Dexys album; Swans’ Michael Gira on Noise and Silence; we meet NWOBHM favourites Raven; Candi Staton’s wild ride of a career and album-by-album with cosmic jazz funker Lonnie Liston Smith; record cost report; reviews of new albums and reissues by Suede, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Blur, PJ Havey, and QOTSA; and much more
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THE REBIRTH OF GOTH - It’s the scene which, by its very nature, was always going to keep coming back from the dead, and its spirit continues to haunt 21st century culture from Billie Eilish to Netflix dramas. As a string of new books delve back into the cobweb-covered vaults of the genre, we celebrate its supernatural staying power
ABC - Martin Fry remembers the making of his Sheffield pop fantasy’s defining statement The Lexicon Of Love, admitting, “We wanted to be like Frank Sinatra with a Fairlight”. And why was it an act they could never really follow?
SWANS - Michael Gira’s post-punk renegades were once infamous for using noise as an aesthetic weapon. After exploring less confrontational paths since, they’re now revisiting their avant-rock roots
LONNIE LISTON SMITH - An album-by-album journey through the career of a man who went from being one of jazz’s greatest sideman, to a band leader in his own right
RAVEN - Once one of the Northeast’s leading lights among the new wave of British heavy metal, these unsung heroes of the scene are enjoying a 21st-century renaissance
DEXYS - Kevin Rowland may feel he lost a decade of his career mired in addiction and recovery, but he’s been making up for lost time with the band with whom he will always be synonymous. And he’s attired as well as ever albeit minus the dress this time...
FROM THE VAULTS - Reissues, repackagings, box sets and compilations from the contrasting likes of Suede, The Sound and Talking Heads
NEW ALBUMS - Unheard pleasures from Blur, PJ Harvey and Queens Of The Stone Age headline our analysis of new albums released this month
BOOKS - Paul McCartney’s early Beatles photo book tops the bill of new reads
SINGLES - Including a Depeche Mode 12" box set, Free and Yarbirds releases and Lurkers EP, you lucky, lucky people
LIVES - Reports from the front row of shows such as Joe Satriani and Glen Matlock
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