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Cath Carroll

Cath Carroll

Cath Carroll is a musician and writer who's recorded for Factory and other labels. She cofounded the Manchester fanzine City Fun and has written over the last four decades for NME, City Limits, San Francisco Weekly and Time Out New York.

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Eurythmics, Eddi Reader: Eurythmics: Haçienda, Manchester

Live Review by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 19 March 1983

THE CHOIR are one of those support acts guaranteed never to outshine the headliners; a Playwright For Today's idea of a Top Rock Band. Strident, ...

Bucks Fizz: Hand Cut (RCA)

Review by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 2 April 1983

PASSING THE BUCK ...

The Smiths: Crisp songs and salted lyrics

Interview by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 14 May 1983

WHY CHOOSE a name like The Smiths? "It's a very stray kind of name, very timeless," explained the colourful Mancunian Morrissey, who gives words and ...

Violent Femmes: Haçienda, Manchester

Live Review by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 1 October 1983

MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN, 90 miles north of Chicago. Famous... for bad beer... over there... and over here. Not so famous over here for the Violent Femmes. ...

Cristina: Sleep It Off (Ze Records)

Review by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 1 September 1984

ZE DROP A Z... ...

Frank Chickens: Why did the chickens cross the globe

Interview by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 26 January 1985

To get to Milton Keynes! Cath Carroll finds out that fact is stranger than fiction and how canaries relate to chickens. ...

Ludus: Linder: Bicepsuality

Report and Interview by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 23 February 1985

CATH CARROLL tweaks the growing muscles of Ludus' LINDER and learns about the joy of weight training for women. ...

Divine Retribution

Interview by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 25 May 1985

Just when you thought it was safe to watch Top Of The Pops again... along comes the monumental DIVINE, determined to get his own back ...

Marc Almond: Mother Hen In Love

Interview by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 21 September 1985

MARC ALMOND drops an egg or two on fame, success, romance, and the little "chicks" who dog his sequinned tootsie-steps. CATH CARROLL adds them up. ...

New Order: Out Of Order

Interview by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 16 November 1985

NEW ORDER'S ethereal movement away from Division and denial, through temptation and confusion, has finally arrived at the classical creations of Low-Life and the emotional ...

Carmel: Air Of Defiance

Interview by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 14 December 1985

CARMEL are back in business and strangely grown-up, claims CATH CARROLL. ...

Sonic Youth: Noise: Sonic Youth

Interview by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 21 June 1986

SONIC YOUTH chortle to CATH CARROLL on the expressway to your hearts. ...

Ted Chippington, The Nightingales, We've Got a Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It: We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It, the Nightingales, Ted Chippington: Fuzzed Among Equals

Report and Interview by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 2 August 1986

The Vindaloo roadshow blitzes Britain with firm-hold hairspray, firm-hold Fuzzbox parents, lobbed bunnies and drape jackets. Entertaining FUZZBOX, THE NIGHTINGALES and TED CHIPPINGTON are the ...

Jaki Graham: Rubber Soul

Interview by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 6 September 1986

JAKI GRAHAM, Wolverhampton's wandering soul singer, meets CATH CARROLL across a coffee table. ...

Asha Bhosle: The Celluloid Singing Star

Interview by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 20 September 1986

ASHA BHOSLE is India's best known singer of film soundtracks. CATH CARROLL meets the woman with 40 million record sales who began her career with ...

New Order: Brotherhood (Factory)

Review by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 27 September 1986

ART OF THE STATE ...

Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy: Town And Country Club, London

Live Review by Cath Carroll, New Musical Express, 8 November 1986

SOMETHING REMARKABLE would surely happen at this hallowed electric tabernacle. You could sense the impending presence of a, ahem, 'jazz' legend — his shadow leant ...

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