Lily Allen
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Lily Allen: The Sound Of The (Garden) Suburbs
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Word, July 2006
Lily Allen makes urban music with a difference — she's had a life she can't complain about. And via MySpace and a daily blog she's built ...
Overview by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, 11 December 2006
At the beginning of 2006, the prospects looked bleak for strong, idiosyncratic female pop acts. Jude Rogers meets three remarkable artists who changed all that ...
Interview by Jon Wilde, Uncut, January 2007
The girl who would be Gandhi mouths off about beating up the Sugababes, balling Becks, torturing spiders and unicorn sex. ...
Digital Venuses: Lily Allen, Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse
Comment by Kandia Crazy Horse, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 8 May 2007
CALL THEM the new British bitch pack: barefoot soul shouter Joss Stone and her ascendant sistren, skankin' Lily Allen and torchy Amy Winehouse (Corinne Bailey ...
Lily Allen: Somerset House, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, July 2007
AT ONE POINT towards the end, bless her, Lily Allen looks like she's going to cry. She's been bouncing through her sweet, slightly skanking version ...
I need a break, what shall I have: heroin or a baby?
Comment by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 20 December 2007
As Amy Winehouse's problems mount, and Lily Allen announces that she is pregnant, Caitlin Moran explains that the two young singers are under the same ...
Lily Allen: Talented, Troubled and Wallowing in Her Father's Footsteps
Profile by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 25 January 2009
WHATEVER AMOROUS tale they really told, the ostensibly loved-up paparazzi shots that flashed around the world in early January telegraphed the fact that Lily Allen ...
Lily Allen: It's Not Me, It's You (Regal Recordings)
Review by Alex Ogg, The Quietus, 30 January 2009
LILY COPS A LOT OF STICK, doesn't she? A lot of people really don't like her. Especially rock hacks, I gather. ...
Interview by James Medd, GQ (Australia), February 2009
She's released a new album and that string of expletives at Elton John at the UK Men of the Year Awards. So how will GQ ...
Lily Allen: Somerset House, London ***
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, Daily Telegraph, 13 July 2009
The queen of MySpace and Twitter struggles to make herself heard in the real world. ...
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 18 November 2009
THE LAST TIME Lily Allen played in Sheffield, as the singer gleefully recalled at the start of her latest British tour on Monday, half her ...
Essay by John Lewis, Do Not Disturb, Summer 2011
How do the British address their cities in song? With bathos, pathos and a large helping of silliness, says John Lewis ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 27 April 2014
LILY'S BACK, and this time it's personal. But then, it always has been: few modern pop stars have engaged with the sweet 'n' sour of ...
Lily Allen: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 28 April 2014
FIVE YEARS AGO Lily Allen retreated to the Cotswolds to get married and to start a family, and proclaimed that she was retiring from music. ...
Review by Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, 5 May 2014
HAVING ANNOUNCED her "retirement" when she retreated to the countryside to start a family five years ago, Lily Allen affects to be nervous of her ...
The privileged are taking over the arts – without the grit, pop culture is doomed
Comment by Stuart Maconie, New Statesman, 4 February 2015
With school music spending down and the benefits system crippled, the voices of pop have lost their bite. ...
Lily Allen: My Thoughts Exactly
Book Review by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, 26 September 2018
Allen details countless horrors, including a stalker entering her bedroom at night, waking up as a record industry executive attempted to rape her, and the ...
Lily Allen: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 December 2018
EYEBROWS WERE raised earlier this year when Lily Allen's latest album, No Shame, was nominated for the Mercury Prize but it fully deserved its place ...
Lily Allen: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 December 2018
Singer shares her thoughts exactly in brave confessional ...
Why the U.K. Got Absurdly Good at Rock & Roll
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, TIDAL, 21 July 2023
For decades, Britain introduced one monumental rock and pop act after another and transformed global cultural history — all with a population about one-fourth the ...
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