“Everybody fights, nobody quits” – Barry Wasserman With over thirty years working as a 1st AD, Barry Wasserman is legend of the British music video industry. Barry has worked with the major artists in rock and pop, and with many of the major directors, on some of the most influential music videos ever made. Bronx-born [...]
Poly Styrene – who tragically passed away last night – was, is and always will be an icon of punk rock. She dared to be utterly individual – which was rare then, and even rarer now. And the songs from the one and only X Ray Spex album Germ Free Adolescents still sound amazing. Here’s [...]
Peter Christopherson, pioneering musician, music video director, and album cover designer, has sadly passed away at his home in Bangkok aged 55. Affectionately known as ‘Sleazy’, Peter was a founder member of experimental art-punk outfit Throbbing Gristle – a band that caused outrage for their on-stage antics, and influenced a generation of post-punk and early [...]
Manager, performer, impresario, self-publicist, shopowner, iconoclast, visionary. As John Lydon, his longtime adversary, instructs, we will miss him. The world is going to be a much duller place without Malcolm McLaren. He will be remembered, of course, for the Sex Pistols, for engineering the success of the most exciting music since the invention of rock [...]
