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The band’s long-term keyboardist and guitarist Dave McGowan ended up taking Love’s role on bass, while new member Euros Childs, formerly of Welsh indie band Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, was drafted in on keyboards. Blake had previously collaborated with Childs on their side project Jonny. “We toured together with Gorky’s years and years ago, and me and Euros became fast friends and we have been for a long time. And personality-wise, he’s a really good guy; he’s a great musician and a great singer, but he brought his own style of playing to the whole thing.”

He complains more widely of his treatment across the media: “I’ve had enough horror thrown at me that would kill off a herd of bison. Accusations usually come from someone with a crazed desire for importance; they don’t operate at a very high level. Writing for the Simpsons, for example, evidently requires only complete ignorance. But all of these things are too easy for me to say. In a world obsessed with Hate Laws, there are none that protect me – free speech no longer exists.” Hours after the episode aired, a statement written on Morrissey’s behalf by his mana...

Did you hear the one about the Cranberry and the Commitment? Noel Hogan and Bronagh Gallagher have made a new single together – completely remotely Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 05:00   It sounds like the opening line of a clumsy joke: “A guitarist from The Cranberries and an actor and singer from The Commitments walk into a recording studio...” The problem is, it didn’t quite work out that way for Noel Hogan and Bronagh Gallagher. In fact, the pair haven’t met in real life, much less spent time together in a studio – but that didn’t stop them from collaborating on a new song.

London Grammar: Californian Soil review Pop One downside of being the only female in a renowned indie band is the amount of preconceptions, stereotypes and unfair assumptions to dispel before the music is even considered.  Hannah Reid discovered this quite early in London Grammar’s career. Around the time of the trio’s 2013 debut If You Wait, she found herself at the centre of a Twitterstorm when the official BBC Radio 1 account, apropos of nothing, tweeted: “We all think that the girl from @londongrammar is fit. Let us know if you agree.” Up until now, Reid hasn’t addressed the ma...