It’s 1999. Cool Britannia isn’t so cool anymore, lukewarm at best. The UK is fast running out of white male indie guitar bands to feed the Britpop machine. Creation Records, Alan McGee’s label notorious for the movement’s worst ridiculousness along with the best bits is months away from its own big sleep. And we won’t […]
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The stripped back combination of Andrew Fearn’s substratal beats and Jason Williamson’s spat-out punk poetry creates a raw and visceral live experience. The intensity of Williamson’s performance is made all the more affecting by its undeniable sincerity. This is not an appropriated fury for commercial gain, but a vivid and guttural expression that has been […]
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Urbanista talks to Alex Lowe of Hurricane #1 Urbanista: It’s over 20 years since Step Into My World and Only The Strongest Will Survive, these tunes still resonate, looking back were they the highlights for you? Alex: I can’t believe it’s over 20 years unbelievable! But yea they were very big highlights . I think […]
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Ahead of their Liverpool Philharmonic gig on Tuesday 10th July, Mike Kneafsey caught up with the Levellers for a chat on behalf of Urbanista Urbanista: “We The Collective” may be a new release which celebrates 30 years of the Levellers, it may include beautifully reworked hits, but I still get the impression that you are […]
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