When Iggy met Ziggy
Close encounters between Bowie and Iggy Pop; from Vive le Rock 2025 and too big for the memoir. Freebie to celebrate passing 1000 free subscribers. Wahoo!
Kris’s Substack
It'll corral my 50 years of music journalism and authoring books in one spot, often in original uncut form, with pics and memorabilia, plus current activities with Nina Walsh in the Cosmic Hutch.
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BRIGITTE FONTAINE: Es...Folle
The story of the pioneering French avant-chanteuse and original punk polymath leading up to landmark 1968 album Es...Folle (plus her subsequent seven decade artistic odyssey). The world should know.
BILLY IDOL: From Gen X To US MTV superstar
Writing about punk's 50th a lot inevitably brought up Generation X and my ten years interviewing Billy Idol; always good fun! In May '24, I wrote this somewhat huge account in Vive le Rock
KATE BUSH: Fire In The Bush
Lobbing a controversial grenade in Zigzag in 1980, I stuck Kate on the cover after she was assured I wasn't going to stitch her up (happened a lot in the music press then). 2 more epics would follow
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES: 20 Minutes to 20 Years
50 years ago, bands formed who transcended punk to change music their own way, the Banshees a good example. I wrote this history in 2007 for Record Collector when punk had just marked its 30th.
Interview Archive: Brian Eno opens up
In late 1977, Sniffin' Glue/NME scribe Danny Baker and I interviewed Eno for his 'Before and After Science' LP. Despite that and his involvement with Bowie he was not a happy bunny (Zigzag Jan '78).
ARTHUR RUSSELL: 'Don't forget about me'; NYC's great overlooked genius
Prompted by the best archival album I've heard all year from Arthur's old sidekick Steven Hall, the original draft of my Russell epic that appeared in MOJO in 2010
Happy Birthday, George Clinton, 85 today!
To mark the occasion, here's the story of the Mothership and rise of P-Funk. A lifelong fan, in 2014 I wrote the Godfather of P-Funk's book, George Clinton & The Cosmic Odyssey of the P-Funk Empire.
Reviews Archive: Unearthed from Shindig! 2011
Unearthed! Definitive Byrds & Stones tomes, Bowie movie, Michael Chapman, Stone Coal White. Done for the love not the money as there wasn't any!
DAVID BOWIE: Wham Bam Thank You, Ma'am
54 years ago today, Bowie brought Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars back to the Aylesbury hall where he unveiled his breakthrough persona that January. To mark the occasion, here's what happened.