Grandaddy
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Grandaddy: The Monarch, London
Live Review by Stevie Chick, Melody Maker, 21 February 1998
A LESSON in not listening to The Man, who would have you believe that bands like Grandaddy, stretching their thrift-store synths way beyond their limits ...
Super Furry Animals, Grandaddy: Academy, Manchester
Live Review by Stevie Chick, Melody Maker, 23 May 1998
CREATURE COMFORTS ...
Interview by Pat Long, Select, July 2000
Come to grandaddy and exult in their eccentric, heartfelt sounds ...
Grandaddy: The Sophtware Slump
Review by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
"SHOULD NEVER have left the crystal lake/For parties full of folks who flake." There’s something irresistible about gnarly American guys going back to the land, ...
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 5 February 2001
EMERGING from the California hinterlands four years ago, Grandaddy embody a diversion from prevailing trends in America's so-called alternative rock community. Not for songwriter Jason ...
Grandaddy: Manchester University
Live Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, April 2001
STRANGE TALES of exploding androids, lost loves, graveyards for household gadgets, crashed spaceships, sunken dreams and cock-and-bull tourist authorities. Welcome to the bevelled woodchuckery of ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rock's Backpages, June 2003
IN JASON LYTLE’S WORLD – one that should be readily recognisable to the rest of us in this troubling decade – things are breaking down, ...
Report and Interview by David Quantick, The Word, July 2003
Born in a place anyone would be desperate to leave, Grandaddy decided to stay, and earn their wit and wisdom the hard way. Now their ...
Grandaddy: Corn Exchange, Brighton
Live Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, February 2004
"THAT LAST song started with the letter 'g'," frowns Jason Lytle from beneath his truck-stop hat. "This song starts with the letter 'g'." ...
Jason Lytle: "Stuff doesn't happen unless I'm alone"
Profile and Interview by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 19 May 2006
The critics loved them. Their peers loved them. But Grandaddy never made the jump to stardom their contemporaries the Flaming Lips managed. Now the band's ...
Grandaddy, from beyond the grave: Jason Lytle talks
Interview by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 28 June 2006
PERHAPS WE should have seen it coming: the official "it's over" announcement was a way off yet, but Grandaddy's penultimate release (excluding singles), Excerpts From ...
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