Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
Axis: Bold As Love was a little funkier and by the time you got to Electric Ladyland? They sound like Curtis Mayfield! I didn’t realise this but Curtis Mayfield was one of Jimi’s favourite guitar players.
Was making people feel like they’re tripping the aim? No, that was the beginning. We were just getting there, we’d just made ‘Testify’. We didn’t have a clue! Well we had enough of a clue. Enough sense to pay attention.
As Belle and Sebastian perform their first two albums at the Royal Albert Hall, Fergal Kinney examines indie’s long standing infatuation with all things adolescent, taking covering C86, twee, Orange Juice and the Smiths
In the wake of Nightingales' new record The Awful Truth, the band's leader Robert Lloyd takes John Quin for a freewheeling ride through 13 significant tracks, from a boyhood love of Lulu and Lou Reed to later encounters with Faust and Freakwater
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