The Rev. Al Friston
The Reverend Al ekes out a living on the outer peripheries of London. He is almost blind and very angry.
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Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
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Richard Ashcroft, U2: U2: All That You Can’t Leave Behind Richard Ashcroft: Alone with Everybody
Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
WE WERE assured that Dublins finest would be going back to basics on All That You Cant Leave Behind; that theyd dispensed with the electro-trappings ...
Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, 5 May 2001
FOLKS, I'M AS big an enemy of hoary old "rock" and all its many cousins as most anyone I know. I cant abide Oasis and ...
The Doors: Asbolutely Dead: How the Jim Morrison Industry lives on
Essay by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, June 2001
"Well, were all in the cosmic movie, you know that! That means the day you die, you gotta watch your whole life recurring eternally forever, ...
The White Stripes: De Stijl (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, June 2001
JACK AND MEG White are the future of the very industry for which their label espouses such compassion. These Detroit-based guitar/drum siblings strip Jon Spencer-style ...
Live Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, 2 June 2001
My my, hey hey, hard rock will never die. OK, it doesn’t scan quite as well as ol’ Neil’s line, but you get my drift. ...
Nina Simone, Peter Green, Van Morrison: Bishopstock 2001: Nina Simone and Van Morrison
Live Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, 1 September 2001
Two cantankerous legends hold court in the Devon sunshine ONE FESTIVAL, THREE DAYS, four major cancellations... and two obstreperous veterans doing their thang on Bank ...
Interview by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, 22 September 2001
Leaving the South behind for La-la land, Ryan Adams makes a bid for rock stardom. And why shouldn't he, asks the Reverend Al Friston? ...
The White Stripes: Astoria Theatre, London, 21st November
Live Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, 24 November 2001
THE MOTOR CITY IS BURNING – on London's Charing Cross Road. An hilariously heraldic "City Of Detroit" flag – with a Latin inscription translating as ...
R.E.M.: REM: Reveal (Warner Bros.)
Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, December 2001
REVEAL IS, well, a revelation — especially for anyone as weary of the bogus and posturing Michael Stipe as this writer is. After the bands ...
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: The Backpages Interview: Jon Spencer
Interview by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, 9 March 2002
The world's most incendiary blues-punk noisemeisters return this month with a full-on, balls-out rock'n'roll album. ...
The Band: The Night They Put The Band To Rest: The Last Waltz Revisited
Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, 26 April 2002
"THE LAST WALTZ" was The Band's star-studded swansong, staged on Thanksgiving Day, 1976. Martin Scorsese made a timeless rockumentary about it, inspiring a hundred alt.roots-rockers ...
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs: The Garage, London, 28th April
Live Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, May 2002
I HAVE seen rock and roll future and it goes YEAH YEAH YEAH!!! Or, more cautiously: I have mostly been blown away by the latest ...
Queens of the Stone Age: Songs For The Deaf (Polydor)
Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, September 2002
ONCE IN A BLUE MOON an album happens along that relights your fire – that brings moribund rock back to life. The odd quasi-supergroup that ...
Burial: Love Among the Ruins: Burial and the Poetics of Hoodie Dubstep
Comment by The Rev. Al Friston, eMusic.com, December 2007
IF I'M WRITING about dubstep, then it's officially over as a trend. I don't even know what dubstep is, and I'm not sure I need ...
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