Author: Matt Catchpole

Full time journalist, music lover (obvs) and truly terrible guitarist. You can find Matt on twitter @matcatch
Bad Dreems

KITCHEN SINK DRAMAS – Bad Dreems’ ‘Hoo Ha!’ Offers A Nightmarish Vision Of Urban Australia

May 10, 2023

It’s hard to resist an album with a title like Hoo Ha!, so I was, ahem, naturally keen to find out what all the…

They Might Be Giants and cover for their album 'Flood'

SOAK IT UP – Alt-Rockers They Might Be Giants To Play Seminal Album ‘Flood’ In Full At Five Special ‘Evening With’ UK Shows In November

March 9, 2023

They Might Be Giants To Play Seminal Album ‘Flood’ In Full in UK

Brian Jonestown Massacre group shot

LIVING COLOUR- Brian Jonestown Massacre’s 20th Album ‘The Future Is Your Past’ Review

January 31, 2023

Emerging from the same post-writer’s block flurry as 2022’s Fire Doesn’t Grow On Trees, Brian Jonestown Massacre’s 20th album comes with a pack of…

Iggy Pop - picture by Vincent Guignet

FUNHOUSE – IGGY POP STIRS THE SPIRIT OF THE STOOGES ON 19TH SOLO ALBUM ‘EVERY LOSER’

January 5, 2023

Iggy Pop sets out his stall from the very first lines of new album Every Loser ‘Got a dick and two balls/That’s more than…

Artist Tim Muddiman - centre flanked by works from his new book 'The Geometrical Swing'

OIL ON CANVAS – GARY NUMAN AND PWEI STAR TIM MUDDIMAN SHOWCASES ARTISTIC TALENT WITH NEW BOOK ‘THE GEOMETRICAL SWING’

December 5, 2022

“I sure as hell don’t understand the ‘art world’ but I do understand how to be myself.”

Left image - Chris Connelly photo by Shayna Connelly. Right Image - Nico photo by Howard Goldblatt

FEMME FATALE – Revolting Cocks’ Chris Connelly Sets The Life of Velvet Underground Chanteuse Nico To Music On ‘Eulogy To Christa’ Album

November 23, 2022

‘A considerable creative achievement’

Cover Art for Punks Listen

PET SOUNDS – Punks Reveal Their Fave Music In New Book In Aid Of Ukrainian Refugees

October 14, 2022

‘Punks Listen is a fun book for a fine cause’

David Philp (centre right) with the Automatics

AUTOMATICS FOR THE PEOPLE – David Philp On The Dangers Of Being A Punk, His Japanese Revival, Selling The Film Rights To His Life Story AND Upsetting Queen’s Freddie Mercury

August 22, 2022

It’s 1978 and as the frontman of up and coming punk upstarts The Automatics David Philp seemingly has it all. The band’s single When…

THE FINAL FRONTIER – Irish duo Telefis Release ‘Space Is Us’ Single, Featuring Sean O’Hagan

August 12, 2022

Space Is Us, one of the last pieces of music to feature Irish iconoclast Cathal Coughlan, is out now on all digital platforms via…

LEG-ENDS IN THEIR OWN LIFETIMES – New Book Chronicles The Music & Misadventures of Punk Misfits & Latter Day Netflix Stars Johnny Moped

July 29, 2022

It’s a testament to Johnny Moped’s sheer oddness that they stood out in a late ‘70s punk scene overly populated by strange and unusual individuals.

Boasting a ranting frontman whose mother-in-law banned him from gigs, a pair of Berks for a rhythm section and a Slimy Toad on guitar, they were the unlikeliest of rock stars.

London Plane - Picture by Alice Teeple

DARK CABARET – New York’s London Plane Land Goth-Tinged Sophomore Album ‘Bright Black’

June 30, 2022

Dark passions, personal grief and the rise of right-wing populism provide the fuel for Black Bright, the new release by goth/post-punk rockers London Plane….

SPOOLS OUT – Blank Tape Tax Revive The Spirit Of Hardcore On ‘Plastic Vapid Sexual Cool’

June 19, 2022

Yost vents his nihilism in a dizzying head rush of cod-offensive bile