Cornershop
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Cornershop: This Sitar Kills Fascists
Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 16 January 1993
Out to smash Asian stereotypes, shit on racists and slaughter every half-assed predictable indie band on the planet — CORNERSHOP might not be able to ...
Report and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 13 March 1993
Britain's Asian community has long hosted a thriving pop scene, operating in a lucrative parallel universe to the chart mainstream. Now, CAROLINE SULLIVAN reports, radical ...
Cornershop: Water Rats, King's Cross, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 20 May 1995
WHO COULD have foreseen a re-birth on this grand scale? The basic struggle for Cornershop has always been one for identity and, while they've been ...
Live Review by John Robb, Bizarre, 1997
AFTER BEING ALL at sea, playing a shambolic punk rock lo fi rush that never seemed to suit them (and I should know I fell ...
Cornershop: When I Was Born For The 7th Time (Wiiija/All formats)
Review by Paul Moody, Melody Maker, 6 September 1997
THINK BACK. Remember when dissing Morrissey mattered, Huggy Bear were considered to be avant-garde situationists and Tony Parsons was happily sounding the death knell on ...
Cornershop: Hollywood Athletic Club, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 14 November 1997
Cornershop Falls Far Short of Album ...
Cornershop: When I Was Born for the 7th Time
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, Fall 1997
THIS IS A GOOD party record: loose, funny, warm – exemplary genre-trashing by musicians who have a great recollection (as they chant on 'Brimful ...
Cornershop: Academy, Manchester
Live Review by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 28 February 1998
MAGIC MASTERY TOUR ...
Interview by Caitlin Moran, Select, May 1998
All-singing? All-dancing? You're joking. By rights, Cornershop should be basking in their new-found celebrity — instead, Tjinder and Ben are either crying into their pints ...
Run DMC, Chemical Brothers, Roni Size et al: Creamfields, Winchester
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 9 May 1998
It's a Cream come true! We join the madness that's CREAMFIELDS in Winchester with Primal Scream! Cornershop! Roni Size! Run DMC! The full bloody monty! ...
Profile and Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, 9 February 2002
Four years after a tribute to Bollywood chanteuse Asha Bhosle gave them 1998's most unlikely number one single, Ben Thompson welcomes the return of Cornershop. ...
Cornershop's Tjinder Singh: "My dad said, 'They'll not always want you here'. That stuck."
Profile and Interview by Jude Rogers, The Observer, 2022
Three decades since the band formed, Cornershop's genre-defying political music is still making a stand. Ahead of a new album, we join them on a ...
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