Dave McCullough
Dave McCullough (pictured with the Clash's Mick Jones) wrote extensively for Sounds in the late '70s and early '80s. He died in 2013, at the age of 55.
Dave McCullough speaking in 1983
77 articles
List of articles in the library
The Undertones: 'Teenage Kicks' Is The Undertones' EP
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 30 September 1978
DAVE McCULLOUGH FINDS PURE PUNK IN DARKEST DERRY ...
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 11 November 1978
NOT JUSTA BUNCHA COMMIES, SEZ DAVE McCULLOUGH ...
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 2 December 1978
Terminal weirdness... ...
The Subway Sect: The Northern Soul of Vic Godard
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 2 December 1978
A SUBWAY SECT INTERVIEW concerning John Travolta, Françoise Hardy, Les Dawson, Zola, Nosmo King, Abba and other street heroes. By DAVE McCULLOUGH ...
The Clash, The Slits: Music Machine, London
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 6 January 1979
A love that burns ...
Scritti Politti: The Nitty Gritty on Scritti Politti
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 13 January 1979
Tea and empathy shared by DAVE McCULLOUGH * ...
Jilted John: This week's fine point of philosophical conjecture: Melancholy Is Truth
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 20 January 1979
In support, drama student Graham Fellows (ex-Jilted John), a man given to public displays of raw feeling. ...
Report and Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 27 January 1979
WHEN YOU "do the singles", as we in the trade like to term the chore, it's a harrowing task. ...
Lene Lovich: Sax And The Single Girl: Lene Lovich's Lucky Number Comes Up
Report and Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 24 February 1979
LAY-NA LUV-ITCH. The woman suddenly appears behind the counter and with the cheeriest of smiles starts to sign 12-inch copies of her chartbound 'Lucky Number' ...
The Skids: Hope, Glory and Albert Tatlock
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 10 March 1979
SANDY MUIR looks like he's just won the pools. His head is severed in half by a cheeky, nervous grin, his hair is tidily groomed, ...
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 17 March 1979
Psychotic awareness — it's the new thing ...
Doll By Doll: Remember (AutomaticK56618)**
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 24 March 1979
Dull by Doll ...
The Fall: Live At The Witch Trials (Step Forward SFLB 1) *****
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 24 March 1979
Music for the man who has everything (and wants it all on one album) ...
The Specials: Moonlight Club, London
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 24 March 1979
Speciality of the house ...
The Specials: Rude Boys in the Jungle
Profile and Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 7 April 1979
DAVE McCULLOUGH REJOICES AS THE SPECIAL AKA (MORE COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE SPECIALS) BREAK FREE AND GAIN COMPLETE CONTROL. ...
The Undertones: The Undertones (Sire SRK 6070)*****
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 5 May 1979
Teenage dreamland ...
ABBA: Voulez Vous (Epic Epc 86) *****
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 12 May 1979
Fall fan's strange Abbaration ...
Magazine: Down in the Warehouse at Midnight
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 12 May 1979
Fresh-faced cub reporter Dave McCullough is summoned to a bizarre battle of wits with sinister mastermind Howard Devoto ...
Nips, The (aka The Nipple Erectors): The Nips: Death To Art Rock!
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 19 May 1979
DAVE McCULLOUGH GETS HIP TO THE NIPS ...
Nick Lowe, Rockpile: Rockpile: Strictly For The Laughs (so laugh, then)
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 30 June 1979
THE ROCKPILE PHILOSOPHY AS TOLD TO DAVE McCULLOUGH ...
Swell Maps: A Trip To Marineville
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 7 July 1979
YOU EITHER talk about the reality that is rock and roll or you talk about nothing. You either express truth or you express 'Truth', the ...
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures (Factory Records Fact 10) *****
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 14 July 1979
DEATH DISCO ...
Cockney Rejects and the Rise of New Punk
Interview by Garry Bushell, Dave McCullough, Sounds, 4 August 1979
'I WANNA go back to where it all began/I wanna do a gig in my back garden/I wanna have a laugh before the press get ...
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 4 August 1979
Manchester city fun ...
Angelic Upstarts: Teenage Warning
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 11 August 1979
HOW MANY p's in oppression? Aww, what can you say? Contrary no doubt to opinions expressed elsewhere on the subject, Teenage Warning is not an ...
Report and Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 11 August 1979
TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE MANCUNIAN WAY — DAVE McCULLOUGH GETS NO JOY (INFORMATION-WISE) FROM JOY DIVISION ...
Echo & The Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes: The Teardrop Explodes, Echo & the Bunnymen: Zoo Games
Report and Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 25 August 1979
A small label at the warm end of the cold wave. The music of the Eighties! says Dave McCullough. ...
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 1 September 1979
FA FA fa fa love song! Al Green used to be a soul singer and now he's An Entertainer. Fa fa fa fa, goodbye! ...
This Heat: This Heat (Piano Records This 1)****
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 8 September 1979
Metallic, but not nocturnal. Knoworrimean? Probably not ...
The Atrix, The Blades, DC Nien, U2, The Virgin Prunes: U2 et al: Coming up for Eire
Report by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 15 September 1979
DAVE McCULLOUGH GOES STRICTLY DUBLIN-WISE AND UNEARTHS A BUNCH OF EXCITING NEW SOUTHERN IRISH ACTS ...
The Slits: Awkward in Interviews, Awkward in Life
Report and Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 22 September 1979
DAVE McCULLOUGH CONFRONTS THE SLITS ...
Buzzcocks: Sex, Fast Cars and a Different Kind of Buzzcock
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 6 October 1979
The spiritual awakening of Steve Diggle. ...
Report and Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 13 October 1979
Dave McCullough hits the Sardine trail to the Portuguese outback for a knees-up with the Stranglers ...
The Specials: Specials (2 Tone CDL TT5001)***
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 20 October 1979
Rudies in a rut ...
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 17 November 1979
Breathe in that clean Swedish mountain air... and chew that high quality gum ...
Essential Logic: The Logical Song
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 17 November 1979
DAVE McCULLOUGH FINDS THE SPIRIT OF FIFTIES JAZZ ALIVE AND WELL IN DEEPEST ACTON ...
Public Image Ltd.: Metal Box (Virgin)*****
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 24 November 1979
PiLled to the gills ...
Pink Floyd: The Wall (EMI SHSP 4111)*
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 1 December 1979
There can only be one place to line up tax-exile millionaires who make concept albums about what a terrible hand life has dealt them... UP AGAINST ...
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 8 December 1979
Shrieks from the Grove ...
Scritti Politti: This week's literary headline... Turn Of The Scrits
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 8 December 1979
Scritti Politti are the Henry James of rock, says DAVE McCULLOUGH, THE JOURNALIST. ...
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 8 December 1979
Honesty goes out of control ...
The Jam: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 15 December 1979
Slap your back ...
Au Pairs: The Au Pairs: Battle of the Sexes
Profile and Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 5 January 1980
I REMEMBER I got a letter some time ago from Ali of Another Tuneless Racket fanzine from Scotland, in which the author questioned the reasoning ...
Profile and Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 12 January 1980
LIKE HEY! What is going on around me? ...
Simple Minds: Not as simple as all that
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 19 January 1980
Simple Minds talk to DAVE ("we hoped it would someone nicer") McCULLOUGH ...
Comment by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 2 February 1980
IT SEEMS, at the present at any rate, there's no escaping The Crass Phenomenon. The "alternative charts" (the accurate few at that!) see them emerging ...
The Skids: Richard Jobson Goes Over The Wall
Report and Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 9 February 1980
THE TAXI-Driver left us nervously on the street where Checkpoint Charlie straddles East and West Berlin in a row of ragged, low-key huts and buildings ...
Chic, Sister Sledge: Sister Sledge: Love Somebody Today (Cotillion K506639)****
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 15 March 1980
STRANGE ONES, to be sure, are the disco misfits that emerge from (ahem) the Chic Organisation Ltd, aka plain ole Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, ...
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 12 April 1980
The Undertones backlash starts here. Well, not really. But Dave McCullough is worried... ...
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 17 May 1980
THE NON-DEVOTO MAGAZINE STORY. CONFUSED? YOU WILL BE AFTER READING DAVE McCULLOUGH'S INTERVIEW ...
Young Marble Giants: Let's Hear It For Quiet Music
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 17 May 1980
Young Marble Giants come down off their pedestal to talk with DAVE McCULLOUGH ...
The Human League: Travelogue (Virgin V2160) ***
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 24 May 1980
Paradoxes in industry chic ...
The Beat: Off The Beaten Track
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 7 June 1980
Dave McCullough suddenly discovers unexpected subtleties, lurking within 'the tatty tinkle of rude boy muzak'. And not because he's just found out that the Beat ...
Spizz: Athletico Spizz 80: Back Into The Future
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 28 June 1980
IN VOGUE BUT OUTDATED 'ATHLETICO SPIZZ 80 ARE THE NEW BORING OLD FARTS' — A SHOCK CLAIM FROM DAVE McCULLOUGH ...
Echo & the Bunnymen: Bunnymen in a Handbag Factory — Crocodiles 1; Bunnymen: 0
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 5 July 1980
Dave McCullough doesn't fret as E & The B's go AoR ...
The Durutti Column: Columnar Collusions
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 16 August 1980
DURUTTI FRUTTI, THE DAVE McCULLOUGH FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH ...
Pere Ubu: "We wanna beat the art rap"
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 20 September 1980
David Thomas and Mayo Thompson tell DAVE McCULLOUGH: "We're not weird/bleak/gloomy etc" and also give him the name of an excellent tailor ...
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Techno Conservationists
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 25 October 1980
Dave McCullough bumps into Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark ...
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, November 1980
THE ARBITRARINESS, the inconsistencies of rock tend to help arid hinder, but more hinder a band such as The Sound. It makes some look at ...
Aztec Camera.....After The Fall
Report and Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 3 January 1981
FLICKING THROUGH the yellow faded pages of a 1913 storybook entitled Happy Rhymes And Funny Times, you come to a page with a picture of ...
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 17 January 1981
THIS IS getting ridiculous. I'll have to do a heavy metal band soon. You mean you don't even drink? Jon Lawrence said No with a ...
Basement 5: 1965-1980 (Island ILPS 9641) **
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 24 January 1981
This album degrades women ...
Felt: The Moonlight Club, London
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 31 January 1981
RATHER FRAGILE and stark, Felt played the Moonlight as support to some Godforsaken lacquery crew named Modern English and most of the time looked distinctly ...
Dollar: The Paris Collection (WEA K58246) ****
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 21 February 1981
Dollar duo in 'Cabaret Voltaire influence' shock claim ...
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 28 March 1981
THE ASSOCIATES' own Mackenzie renounces all evil and talks to Dave McCullough instead ...
Altered Images: Night Of The Living Dead Pop Stars
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 11 April 1981
THIS IS a musical box. The figure at the top is a pretty girl called Claire. She does a spinning entrancing dance. It's an old ...
Kraftwerk: Computer World (EMI EMC 3370) ***
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 16 May 1981
Deutschmark doublethink ...
New Order: Forum Dance Hall, London
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 16 May 1981
Mystic energy on tap ...
Dollar: Working For The Swanky Dollar
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 26 September 1981
DAVE McCULLOUGH unearths the grisly truth behind pop's most loving couple ...
Haircut 100: A Little Off The Top
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 5 December 1981
DAVE McCULLOUGH collects snippets of information from HAIRCUT 100 ...
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 5 December 1981
The Lunch that made me sick ...
Adam & the Ants: Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 2 January 1982
Reach for the thigh ...
23 Skidoo: King's College, London
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 23 January 1982
GOODNESS KNOWS, it's hard enough to sit yourself high in the air and look down penetratingly at anything in rock/pop with a view to clocking ...
Joy Division, New Order: FAC~T or Fiction
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 12 June 1982
Dave McCullough corresponds with Factory boss TONY WILSON. ...
Dexys Midnight Runners: This one will run and run
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 24 July 1982
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Hall & Oates: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 13 November 1982
Roughage riders ...
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 5 October 1983
BY THE way, the Smiths are becoming massive, if I can squeeze in here between Manowar and Waysted (it hurts, but I like it). I ...
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