Archive for category: Features

The resurrection of the Roses

The resurrection of the Roses

6 / October 20, 2011 2:37 pm

An announcement made this week revealed that a long awaited, much disclaimed rumour has finally seen the light – the return of messyrs Brown and Squire along with Mani and Reni to boot. After years of throwing to-the-grave insults at [...]

A Wall of Sound and Destruction

A Wall of Sound and Destruction

19 / October 11, 2011 9:06 pm

A Place To Bury Strangers Interview Photos of A Place To Bury Strangers backstage/gig in Paris, 2011 by Patricia Falchi for Echo Magazine   IN July 2011 Echo Magazine’s editor Alex Hancock conducted an interview with A Place To Bury Strangers frontman [...]

Le two step with Mama Rosin

Le two step with Mama Rosin

15 / September 28, 2011 12:41 pm

Possessed with the spirit of calypso and The Clash, Mama Rosin, Photograph: Bartolomy for Echo Magazine Interview by Alex Hancock Echo Magazine uncovered Mama Rosin’s singer/guitarist Robin Girod and accordian player Cyril Yeterian outside a pub venue in London’s Barbican on [...]

Black Lips crack Shoreditch but this belies 1234′s exinct atmosphere

Black Lips crack Shoreditch but this belies 1234′s exinct atmosphere

10 / July 11, 2011 4:12 pm

No NME journalists were present as Lydia Lunch launched a tirade of abuse at “tweety pie” Pete Doherty during her set at the 1234 Festival. Commenting on Doherty’s early release from prison, the singer accused him of playing up to [...]

Tropicália Ever After

Tropicália Ever After

8 / June 28, 2011 6:49 am

Brazilian music after 1968′s Tropicalismo explosion by Joseph Pasztak Brazil has been a fantastic breeding ground for many diverse and influential styles of music. Samba, bossa nova and Brazilian roots all emerged from the country. But it was not only a genre [...]

The Good, The Bad & The Folk

The Good, The Bad & The Folk

2 / June 27, 2011 2:46 pm

Interview by Alex Hancock For two years Erland & The Carnival have been toiling with their mind-bending combination of traditional folk and psilocybin-pop. Initially a collaboration between folk-singer Erland Cooper and Simon Tong (guitarist: The Verve, Gorillaz, The Good, The Bad [...]

Don’t Look Back – Sarabeth Tucek

Don’t Look Back – Sarabeth Tucek

5 / June 27, 2011 12:44 pm

  Interview by Alex Hancock When Echo Magazine dropped in on Sarabeth Tucek she was getting ready to play her second gig after the release of Get Well Soon. The nerves were on show when we found her tucked away in [...]

Lucifer Rising

Lucifer Rising

2 / June 26, 2011 4:43 pm

The Roys alongside film icon Audrey Hepburn near Little Portland Street, 2011. Photograph: Bartolomy for Echo Magazine The soundtrack to being chased and beaten by voodoo priests and leather bound biker gangs after a white-knuckle motorcycle ride through hell. Born [...]

Spotlight on Pedro Bell: Funkadelic cover artist and futuristic cartoon visionary

Spotlight on Pedro Bell: Funkadelic cover artist and futuristic cartoon visionary

1 / May 11, 2011 4:52 pm

Spotlight on Pedro Bell, Funkadelic cover artist and futuristic visionary Illustrator, artist and author of a litany of mind-expanding rhetoric and conceptual drawings, Pedro Bell became an essential part of the Funkadelic collective throughout the 1970s. Along with George Clinton [...]

John Walker of The Walker Brothers has passed away

John Walker of The Walker Brothers has passed away

9 / May 9, 2011 9:03 pm

A former member of sixties chamber pop group The Walker Brothers, John Walker has died in his battle with liver cancer. The story of how the musician became founder of one of the most adored pop groups of the 60s [...]