The Pastels

Creation Records: Lions In Our Own Garden

Report and Interview by Bruce Dessau, New Musical Express, 3 November 1984

BRUCE DESSAU rustles the roster of London's pop-punk indie, CREATION RECORDS ...

Suck On The Pastels

Interview by Neil Taylor, New Musical Express, 25 January 1986

Five singles old and The Pastels aren't as funny as Lloyd Cole. Nonplussed NEIL TAYLOR wonders why. ...

Teenage Fanclub, The Pastels, BMX Bandits: New Cross Venue, London

Live Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 12 January 1991

HOOTS MON and eat your heart out Andy Stewart. The sporran-studded Hogmanay Jockstravaganza started early last year with this pre-Xmas gathering of the clans. ...

10 reasons to love… The Pastels

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, July 1993

1. "PASTELISM IS a force of good. It's a network which brings together formerly isolated and scattered geographically people. It's about networking, empowering, making people ...

The Pastels: The Last Great Wilderness

Review by David Hemingway, Record Collector, September 2003

LIKE THE FAMOUS Indian carpet-makers who deliberately incorporate flaws into their work so as not to offend their deities by attempting to emulate their perfection, ...