Lush
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Interview by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 18 March 1989
A RUSH OF BLOOD? Lush are nearly as good as their name, which is high praise indeed. ...
Pale Saints, Lush: Warehouse, Leeds
Live Review by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 9 December 1989
Saint Errant ...
Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 3 March 1990
After all the hype surrounding Lush, their new Mad Love EP was bound to come under scrutiny. But, says John Robb, its mixture of cunning ...
Lush: Dear Students (Won't You Come Out To Play?)
Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 27 October 1990
Right now, a thousand acne strewn depressives are bustin' pimples to Lush's cool bedsit beat. But are they the ultimate student band or just the ...
Report and Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 3 November 1990
"I DON'T like words," says the erstwhile centre of attention with the shock of bright red hair. "Why?" Inquires the journalist querulously. "Oh, I'm gonna ...
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 26 October 1991
Are LUSH the new Mike Oldfield? Does the old Mike Oldfield reckon his fans are "twats"? Is STEVEN WELLS picking on their gurly petal rock ...
Lush: Spooky (4AD/All formats)
Review by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 18 January 1992
FILLY SPECTRES ...
Review by David Cavanagh, Select, February 1992
HOW ON EARTH would you explain Lush's sound to aliens from another planet? Well, realistically, of course you wouldn't. You'd run away shouting "Aliens! Aliens!" ...
Lush: Hazy Daze For The Scenesters
Profile by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 2 February 1992
Just about the only thing happening in British indie music last year was a rash of blurry, neo-psychedelic bands known as 'shoegazers' or The Scene ...
Report and Interview by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 9 May 1992
HIPS, LIPS, TITS, POWER! Meet the new breed of enchantress, the spell-binding women who are taking the male bastille and giving it some earthily female ...
Lush: Spooky (4AD/Reprise); Ride: Going Blank Again (Reprise)
Review by Jon Young, Musician, June 1992
VISIONARY ART or nouvelle junk food? Perfect masters of evocative soundscapes, Britain's Lush and Ride can create a mood quicker than you can dim the ...
Lollapalooza 2: One Nation Under a Groove
Report by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 15 August 1992
It's Glastonbury on wheels, a mobile Reading, the lovechild and legacy of ex-Jane's Addiction frontman and all-round chap, Perry Farrell. It's LOLLAPALOOZA, in its second ...
Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 4 June 1994
Beneath the all-quaffing, lager-frenzied, dreamy-weamy indie muso LUSH there's a band bristling with resentment, heartbreak and anger. Visiting MIKI BERENYI's nightmare childhood and EMMA ANDERSON'S ...
Live Review by Simon Warner, The Guardian, 8 June 1994
CHALLENGED TO a drinking contest by their support band, noise merchants Blessed Ethel, Lush claimed they had chosen the easier option by returning to the ...
Lush: Automobile For The People
Interview by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 18 June 1994
LUSH are back! Cue multiple VATs and strawberry daiquiris. But no! Lush's hard-drinking, hard-socialising days are behind them. They've gone all introspective and solemn. And, ...
Interview by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 20 January 1996
In 1990/91, LUSH were the original Female Fronted Rock Band, godmothers of Sleeper, Elastica and Echobelly, all spiky guitars and Oxfam glamour. Then Suede and ...
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 11 March 1996
Two trumps for a busted Lush ...
Lush: Britpop Bondgirls Bash Bonehead Badboys
Profile and Interview by Susan Whitall, Yahoo! Internet Life, 26 August 1997
WHILE MUCH IS made of such supposed role models for young girls as Alanis Morissette, a young woman whose deeply personal songs are co-written by ...
4AD Records: Labelled with Love
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, November 2013
A new book, Martin Aston's Facing The Other Way, tells the story of a label that scored just a single number one hit during the ...
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