Taylor Parkes

There Are No Horizons: Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible Turns 30

Taylor Parkes picks through the bones of one of the best rock albums of the 1990s and the artistic apex of Manic Street Preachers' history. This feature was first published on December 11, 2014

I Hate Finishing Things When I Don’t Have To: Pete Shelley Interviewed

Everybody's looking for something - but what does Taylor Parkes find when he spends the evening with Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks? (this feature was republished on 7th December 2018 to mark the sad passing of Pete Shelley)

The Fall and Mark E Smith As A Narrative Lyric Writer

Last House On The Left: Following Jeremy Corbyn’s Campaign Trail

Taylor Parkes visits Chelmsford - Thatcher's Agincourt - to study Corbyn mania, ahead of Thursday's Labour leadership poll deadline. All photographs by Samantha Hayley

Life In Hell: Sleaford Mods Interviewed By Taylor Parkes

Jason Williamson, one half of Sleaford Mods meets up with Taylor Parkes to chew the fat, and the gristle, and the bone. All photographs by Duncan Stafford

There Are No Horizons: The Holy Bible At 25, By Taylor Parkes

Taylor Parkes picks through the bones of one of the best rock albums of the 1990s and the artistic apex of Manic Street Preachers' history. Photos courtesy of Mitch Ikeda

An Unsettling Creation: Bryan Ferry Interviewed By Taylor Parkes

The frictionless, distantly funky Bryan Ferry meets Taylor Parkes in a Copenhagen hotel room - or does he?

A Revolution In The Head: The Other Side Of Monty Python

Taylor Parkes will not be traipsing down to Greenwich to watch the Monty Python reunion shows. Here he explains what has changed in the "disquieting, disordered, disruptive" British institution

A British Disaster: Blur’s Parklife, Britpop, Princess Di & The 1990s

Taylor Parkes marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Blur's Parklife by exploring the album in the context of the huge changes wrought on British life in the mid to late 90s by Britpop, Blair and the death of Princess Diana. Chips photo by David Moats

Hunks Punch Lunks: The Fascist Sex Cult Of The Professionals

Taylor Parkes celebrates the strange and sometimes unsophisticated, yet hypnotically rewarding, representation of "the hardest men in the world": The Professionals

The Least Important Things: Dr Who At Fifty, An Essay By Taylor Parkes

As Dr Who reaches its half century, Taylor Parkes takes a look back at the programme's evolution, plot and props, and ponders on fandom and his own relationship with the antics of the Time Lord

The Clang Of The Yankee Reaper: Van Dyke Parks Interviewed

Taylor Parkes talks to the American songwriting legend

Far From Useless, Far From Good: Marillion’s Script For A Jester’s Tear

In among the pomposity and the queuing cumbers of the 80s prog-rockers' debut album, Taylor Parkes tries to pinpoint exactly why it captivated his adolescent self

“I Went Much Further Than I Ever Thought I Could” Johnny Marr Interviewed

Taylor Parkes talks to the formidable guitarist about why he's been happy since The Smiths just doing a bit of this and a bit of that

Constant Forward Movement: Taylor Parkes On Can’s Lost Tapes

"These are the moments where what Can 'lost' in a cupboard sounds most beautifully like what most of us lost when we learned to speak." Taylor Parkes examines the wonderful Can Lost Tapes

“Not Doing Things Is Soul Destroying” – Kevin Shields Of MBV Interviewed

Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine pulls up a chair with Taylor Parkes and gives one of his lengthiest and most revealing interviews to date

My Bloody Valentine

Isn't Anything, Loveless reissues

The Space Is The Place – Taylor Parkes On Abbey Road Studios

Taylor Parkes visits Abbey Road studios and talks to Brian Kehew and Kevin Ryan about the rooms that shaped seminal albums by The Beatles and Pink Floyd

Davy Jones Of The Monkees – A Tribute By Taylor Parkes

Remembering the former Monkee who died this week at the age of 66

Taylor Parkes On The Continuing Brilliance Of Half Man Half Biscuit

Listening to new Half Man Half Biscuit album 90 Bisodol (Crimond) Taylor Parkes explains why they're one of England's darkest, funniest, smartest groups. HMHB live shot thanks to Steve Toner

At The End Of The Grosse Freiheit: The Beatles In Hamburg

Fifty years ago last month The Beatles first arrived in Hamburg, hungry, sleepless and unprepared (for what they found there, and what it led to), says Taylor Parkes

BBC / Trunk Records

Life On Earth Soundtrack

Paul McCartney And Wings

So you think the 1970s were a fallow period for Paul McCartney? 'Apply the breaks', says Taylor Parkes with his appreciation of the mainly unheralded genius of Thumbs Aloft Macca...

Careful With That Axe: Pink Floyd Reappraised, By Taylor Parkes

Taylor Parkes goes behind The Wall to find Pink Floyd's post-Syd Barrett greatness in a series of live albums that showcase them at their inventive, truly progressive best

Animal Collective

Merriweather Post Pavilion

The Smiths

The Sound of The Smiths

All You Old Bastards Should LEARN Something From This – The Cult Of Chris Needham

Taylor Parkes gets to grips with Chris Needham of Manslorter (né Manslaughter)

The Fall

Imperial Wax Solvent