The rise and fall of fine young cannibals

It’s easy to forget just how big the Fine Young Cannibals were, peaking with two US No.1 singles and a No.1 album with The Raw & The Cooked in 1989. Good things appeared to lay in store for the Birmin

John & Yoko/ Plastic Ono Band Power ...

At a secret location in Cardiff, SUPER FURRY ANIMALS have reconvened for their first interview together in over a decade. The reasons? An upcoming tour and the reissue for one of their most beloved albums, Love Kraft . Cue, then, 30 years’ worth of irrepressible anecdotes, covering “ambient space guitar”, Spanish petrol stations, coconuts in Rio, bankruptcy, sampling Steely Dan, altercations with the E Street Band, Japanese TV shows and more. Their conclusions..? “We couldn’t do formula if we tried,” they tell Tom Pinnock

A few years ago, Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr were interviewed for a BBC documentary about music’s messiest break-ups. Which may seem like an odd booking, given the pair’s famously adamantine bond. B

Breakfast Special Super’ trouper: keyboard king Rick ...

hen Soft Cell were art students at Leeds Polytechnic, Marc Almond wrote a song in the vein of Ziggy Stardust about a fictional band breaking up. Four years later, when Soft Cell had been informed by t