Starsailor
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Profile and Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 17 April 2001
Starsailor have been tipped as the most exciting band since Coldplay. Has that been a curse or a blessing, asks Dave Simpson. ...
Interview by Angus Batey, Arena, November 2001
BARELY 18 months ago they were an indie covers band, nervously dropping their own songs into a set comprised of other people's hits. But this ...
Starsailor: Love Is Here (EMI Chrysalis)****
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 2001
MUCH-TOUTED debut from new kings of pain. ...
Starsailor: Bowery Ballroom, NYC
Live Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 10 December 2001
WAIT — DID HE drop the guitar on purpose? The song continued, but James Walsh quit playing in the midst of the action, visibly overwhelmed ...
Music for a Divine Moment: The Best Music of 2001
Guide by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 17 December 2001
IN THESE DAYS of crusades, jihads, and God-Bless-This-Lands, I've been wondering why so much music writing is riddled with religious imagery. ...
Letter from London, January 2002
Overview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, January 2002
WHILE, SINCE The Beatles, we British music fans have often affected insouciant confidence in the superiority of our taste over the rest of the world's ...
Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, January 2002
BEFORE THE Q magazine awards, a rally of sold out headlining tours, and industry buzz that promised the next Coldplay or Travis, Starsailor was simply ...
The Charlatans/Starsailor: Irving Plaza, New York
Live Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 29 January 2002
What it feels like for a boy: The Charlatans, Starsailor, and musings on transatlantic masculinities. ...
John Hiatt & Starsailor: Making Classic Rock Sound Good
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 16 February 2002
A couple of years ago the singer/songwriter/guitarist John Hiatt recorded Crossing Muddy Waters, an acoustic album for the revived Vanguard label. ...
Starsailor: Apollo, Manchester
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 29 September 2003
THE MUSIC PRESS has bitterly dismissed Starsailor's second album, Silence Is Easy. Once the band were seen as saviours, but it's now as if they ...
Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 26 January 2004
THIS TIME around, Starsailor have created an album that's the musical equivalent of wearing a "Kick Me" sign through a crowded high school hallway. ...
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