Music | Live Review
Dave Kerr: His trademark rasp might be buried in the mix, but stadium-aspiring pretenders would do well to emulate Tricky’s panache. Walking on to an instr...
Music | Preview
Paul Neeson: Emerging amidst the lads-and-lager brawl of mid-nineties Britpop, Tricky’s multifarious debut, Maxinquaye, flew in the face of the simplified co...
Records | Feature | Round Up
Nick Mitchell: If this was the mid-90s and Oasis were in their pomp, The Shock of the Lightning (**, Out Now) would be an album track at best, and certainly not the ...
Music | Feature
Dave Kerr: He was trouble as a young ‘un; did time in the slammer for committing 'forgery of the crown', bounced back to carve his own niche with 1995&rsqu...
Records | Album Review
Jason Morton: Being a Tricky Kid must be exhausting. Having helped establish the trip-hop genre, inadvertantly or otherwise, the Knowle West Boy has since spent muc...
Dave Kerr: “Polly Harvey still inspires me lyrically, but I don’t listen to a lot of new music. I find with a lot of new albums they write two single...
News | Lifestyle | Heads Up
Dave Kerr: Having spent the interim period since 2003's Vulnerable building a new record label and directing his debut feature film, Council Estate is the first ...