The Psychedelic Furs
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Psychedelic Furs: Feels Like The Furs Time
Interview by John Mendelsohn, Creem, January 1982
IN 1977, DURING the so-called Summer of hate, yet another refugee from a London art college got fed up with silk-screening "advertising crap" and resolved ...
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All Of This And Nothing: The Psychedelic Furs On Talk Talk Talk
Retrospective and Interview by Alex Ogg, The Quietus, 20 October 2010
The Psychedelic Furs return to the UK in late October to play their second album, Talk Talk Talk, in its entirety. Alex Ogg spoke to ...
Psychedelic Furs: Sugar Cubes For The New Depression
Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, February 1982
RICHARD BUTLER, the Psychedelic Furs, chain-smoking vocalist, often sounds like an extremely angry man or record. ...
The Psychedelic Furs: Sugar Cubes For The New Depression
Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, February 1983
RICHARD BUTLER, the Psychedelic Furs' chain-smoking vocalist, often sounds like an extremely angry man on record. Some people have compared his raspy voice to a ...
The Psychedelic Furs: Talk Talk Talk
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, February 2009
IT'S PERHAPS FITTING that a curious, intriguing band whose career was jinxed by ifs and buts should have their second, arguably defining album later hijacked ...
The Psychedelic Furs: The Psychedelic Furs/Talk Talk Talk/Forever Now
Retrospective by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 12 July 2002
I see the future and it will be the Psychedelic Furs. ...
Excess: Sex, Drugs and the Vanity of the Psychedelic Furs
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, i-D, April 1987
Disowning the past, re-writing the course of furry rock and roll history is Richard Butler's forte. All his psychedelic back-press seems to be about the ...
The Psychedelic Furs: Which One's Psycho Derek?
Profile and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 6 October 1979
GIOVANNI DADOMO keeps tabs (Old Tripper's Joke No. 2467A) on The PSYCHEDELIC FURS ...
Psychedelic Furs: The Psychedelic Furs (CBS 84084)***¾
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 1 March 1980
So fur so good ...
The Psychedelic Furs: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 6 April 2022
Frontman Richard Butler is now 65, but his nicotine rasp remains a thing of wonder and the band's pop smarts mean they have aged well ...
Psychedelic Furs: Rock Garden, Middlesbrough
Live Review by Ian Ravendale, Sounds, 5 April 1980
A bad trip, man ...
Psychedelic Furs: The Ritz, New York NY
Live Review by J.D. Considine, Musician, March 1983
RICHARD BUTLER stalks to his microphone, a vision in beige. While the other six Psychedelic Furs take their places decked out in the standard postpunk ...
Malice Through The Looking Glass: Psychedelic Furs: Mirror Moves (CBS)
Review by Jane Solanas, New Musical Express, 19 May 1984
THE RETURN of the underdogs. Castigated, laughed at… they flew to New York, where Butler quit drinking, attacked the museli bowl and kissed his girlfriend. ...
The Psychedelic Furs: Acceptable Weirdness From Furs
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, June 1987
JOHN ASHTON, guitarist for the Psychedelic Furs, addresses the key issue head on: "What's selling out? What's being a pop band? You can accuse Eurythmics ...
The Psychedelic Furs: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Julian Marszalek, Gigwise, 17 June 2018
The veteran band kicks off Meltdown with a 'Best Of…' setlist ...
The Psychedelic Furs: Love Their Way
Report and Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 17 November 1982
The Singer ...
Psychedelic Furs: The Furs Cut Is The Deepest
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, March 1980
"I HATE supporting other bands it sucks." Butler Rep, singer with The Psychedelic Furs, is reflecting on the last few days, which have seen one ...
Psychedelic Furs: The Flowers Of Evil Are In Full Bloom...
Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1979
"We're in love with beautiful chaos, we're love with flowers..." ...
Psychedelic Furs: Forever Now (CBS)
Review by Leyla Sanai, New Musical Express, 25 September 1982
ONCE UPON a time, the Psychedelic Furs were everyone's epitome of the vulgarity and pretence of rock music. ...
The Psychedelic Furs: The Butler Did It
Interview by Mark Dery, Winner, November 1986
THERE'S A scene in David Cronenburg's The Fly where a baboon gets zapped, beamed from Point A to Point B, and reassembled as simian upsidedown ...
Iggy Pop/Psychedelic Furs: Friars, Aylesbury
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 9 February 1980
THREE BANDS shaped up as good value but that wasn't all. There was an unannounced surprise star guest all the way from Vegas let's ...
Reel American: Keith Forsey's Disco Snarl
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Musician, November 1985
From Donna Summer to Billy Idol, from Psy-Furs to Simple Minds, the union of style and raunch. ...
The Psychedelic Furs: Come In, Sit Down And Take The Weight Off Your Cheekbones
Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, July 1991
SOME BRITISH ROCK musicians move to America to make their fortunes; others go to avoid sharing them with the Inland Revenue. Quite what the Psychedelic ...
The Psychedelic Furs: The Psychedelic Furs
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, December 1980
THE AFFINITY BETWEEN bands of the golden Age of Psychedelia and the current rash of art-progs is fairly obvious: both possess a nauseating need to ...
The Psychedelic Furs: All Of This And Nothing (CBS 4611104/CD) ****
Review by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 6 August 1988
CHEEKBONES JUTTING, skin pallid, voice abrading, this is rock hewn from the demi-monde, a realm where a draw on a cig should always be meticulously ...
The iJamming! Interview! Richard Butler
Interview by Tony Fletcher, iJamming.net, August 2001
LAST SUMMER I was asked by Sony Legacy to write sleeve notes for re-issues of the first three Psychedelic Furs albums, along with a newly-recorded ...
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