... blend of electro euphoria and shamanic floor shaking is premium grade Goth goodness. Ray Davies Ft ChrissieHynde Postcard From London 3/5 Davies' Kinks Choral Collection release is repackaged for the seasonal market, and is about as cheesy as Christmas gets. Nice of his former old lady ChrissieHynde to help out, but you'll be hard pressed to stop all your sobbing by...
Sitting on the floor of a cattleshed, at the business end of a cow, ChrissieHynde is trying to get to grips with a set of udders. “Are there four of them'” she shouts above the Hare Krishna devotional music blaring out of a CD player in the corner. After a few moments of grappling, milk comes squirting into the pail between her feet. “Awesome!” cries the lead...
A rocker's reverence for sacred cows ChrissieHynde, a campaigning vegetarian and the lead singer of the Pretenders, recently fulfilled a lifelong ambition she spent the day in Watford, milking cows. A source said she loved her trip to Bhaktivedanta Manor, a dairy farm created from land donated to an Indian guru by George Harrison in the 1970s, where all of the farm's 50 cows are given...
They were all hot at the time of ChrissieHynde and the Pretenders, Annie Lennox with the Eurythmics, and Siouxie Sioux ... following the trails blazed by Grace Slick, Janis Joplin and Patty Smyth. They were living proof that women could do more on stage than tap a tambourine against an overexposed hip and sing backup for a bunch of guys. They proved that you didn't have to dress like...
... the Home Secretary may be no use at this stage. Twitter, blogs, Facebook. You could do like ChrissieHynde and Dave Gilmour, and make a record . Gary McKinnon, in case you’ve missed it over the past seven years, is a vegetarian pacifist UFO theorist from north London who hacked into the Pentagon’s computer systems, looking for signs of a conspiracy, from 1995 to 2002. He has Asperger’s...
... yet turn into a Great Depression. As Gertrude Stein once wrote, "There is no there there." Or as ChrissieHynde of The Pretenders sang, My City Was Gone . The world we knew no longer exists. Arizona's political leaders have not faced up to this economic reality. Instead of reexamining the policies of the past 60 years which have brought us to this place in time and setting a new course...
... songwriter JuJu, a rail-thin force of nature (think Patti Smith meets PJ Harvey meets ChrissieHynde), and drummer Nez, the propulsive undercurrent of the band, backed by a Hammond player in their live performance. Little Fish’s sound is at once sensual and urgent, yet intimate and haunting. If you’re a fan of The Heartless Bastards, this should agree with you. Little Fish – Darling...
... to scratch their chins and wonder why they can't quite take to them.Jamie Callum, Beverley Knight, ChrissieHynde, the Feeling and Dionne Warwick also appear. You know damn well this will be dreadful... but somehow... it'll be kinda good as well.
... - Italiana - Been a fan since I discovered her a couple of years ago; Leonard Cohen's and ChrissieHynde's illegitimate Italian love child... 2. Reelroad - Russian World Beat - "By far the best new discovery at ¡Globalquerque! 2008" - Dirty Linen ....and the Croatian music I got... What lesson or new idea spurred your thinking while at a WOMEX (from a panel, in the trade hall, or...
... piece: Being from Ohio, I have long held to the truth within a comment made by fellow Buckeye ChrissieHynde of The Pretenders. (I swear I heard her say this in an interview I saw televised once.) Growing up in (pre-internet) Akron, she spoke of how she found herself longing for information about the rest of the world via music, books, newspapers and movies. Eventually, she made her...
... overhead. And so it was over. 59. Special – Garbage (UK #15, US #52, Aus #54) Mimicking ChrissieHynde, mincing a Pretenders refrain and yet Shirley still managed to embody the persona of a surly alien princess as she always does. Garbage at the top of their game – from an album that just doesn’t quit. 60. Debbie - B-52s (US Modern Rock #35) 61. My Oh My –...
Many look to the soul-dripped voice of James Mudriczki for the answer. It was the darkness in that voice that enticed into his fanbase; he returned the compliment by contributing a cover of 'Che' to the 'Born to the Breed' tribute album (alongside Leonard Cohen, Dolly Parton, Joan Baez and ChrissieHynde). But there's much more, a vast lake if not an ocean to wade through. On the highlights...
LAST OF THE INDEPENDENTS Whilst rummaging through my near-complete collection of Mojo magazine prior to the house move, I came across an interview with ChrissieHynde in the May 2007 issue. Aged 54 and semi-retired, she claims to be leading...
All Iggy It's official! Iggy pop is a living legend (but we knew that already). The heavy hitters and major players of the rock music industry all gathered together last night at the Park Lane Hotel in London to celebrate the winners of the Marshall Classic Rock Roll Of Honour Awards 2009.Here are the nominations and here are the winners . Iggy Pop was named as 'Living Legend' , with Chrissie...
