Do you remember your first obsession? Mine was David Bowie. I collected everything about him I could get my hands on, every album/bootleg recording and magazine, nicked books from the library, recorded (on cassette!) snippets of songs and interviews on the radio, stayed up all night watching Rage in the hope that they would play … Continue reading »
Thanks to the massive publicity generated by her über-successful Kickstarter album campaign, Amanda Palmer (sometimes also known as Amanda Fucking Palmer) has been lately saddled with the rather burdensome title of ‘the future of music’. Phew! That’s no easy thing to live up to. One gets the sense, though, that Palmer and her Grand Theft Orchestra … Continue reading »
