World Party
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Karl Wallinger: The Song that Saved My Bacon
Report and Interview by Graeme Thomson, Daily Telegraph, 15 August 2012
IN 1997 WORLD PARTY released a song called 'She's the One'. A simple, affecting piano ballad written by Karl Wallinger "in ten minutes and recorded ...
World Party: At Shepherd's Bush Empire
Report by Johnny Black, MOJO, September 1997
"I WISH he'd stop wiping his nose," moans the guy in the next seat. Even without his nasal hygiene tic, the object of this ...
Review by Johnny Black, Q, June 1990
WORLD PARTY – BEST known for the 'Ship Of Fools' hit off their 1986 debut – is, to all intents and purposes, Ex-Waterboy Karl Wallinger, ...
Wallinger: The World's in His Hands
Interview by Laura Fissinger, New York Daily News, 12 May 1987
NOT THAT Karl Wallinger is modelling himself after Sean Penn or anything, but he'd really rather not be doing interviews — not this month, anyway. ...
World Party: In A World Of His Own
Report and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, October 1990
Karl Wallinger’s wilderness years were ended when he formed World Party. Gone forever the endless dabblings that took him from the rock ‘n’ roll inferno ...
World Party: Bang! (Ensign Chen)
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, May 1993
Bang! is Karl Wallinger's Victor Meldrew album. Sequestered in a garret for two years since Goodbye Jumbo, he shuffles blinking into the daylight to enquire, ...
World Party: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 6 November 2012
AS COMEBACKS GO, playing the Albert Hall after more than a decade away makes quite a bold statement. Never mind that this iconic venue was ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone (Germany), 1997
"I’M COMPLETELY undisciplined", Karl Wallinger gives a dopey grin in answer to the inevitable question: why has it taken four years to follow up the ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, April 2012
TWELVE YEARS after their last studio album, Karl Wallinger has finally decided he's ready to resurrect World Party, the vehicle for his songwriting that birthed ...
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