It's 30 years since East Kilbride reprobates, Jim and William Reid released their excellent early doors compilation Barbed Wire Kisses, so who better to revisit it (with Jim, Douglas Hart and John Moore in tow) than their biographer Zoë Howe
David Peschek remembers recently-deceased Glasgow club Divine as he speaks to the likes of founder Andrew Divine, JD Twitch from Optimo, Stephen Pastel and Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian, who recalls the time he wore a dress... Oh, and there's a mix too.
The Manics have abandoned the ideologies and cultural touchstones that once defined them, and approached their fifteenth record with "no MO," says James Dean Bradfield. He speaks to Patrick Clarke about how it's left him with a rare sense of freedom in a world where "reality resembles fiction"