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Keith Cameron

Keith Cameron

Keith Cameron began writing for Sounds in 1988. He has subsequently contributed to NME, Vox, Q, Kerrang!, The Guardian, The Times, Sunday Times and Scotland On Sunday. From 1997 to 1998 he presented on XFM before the station's new owners, Capital Radio, axed his show for being excessively free of spirit. He is currently a freelance writer and sub-editor at MOJO.

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Stump: University Of London Union, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 20 February 1988

WHAT A weird and wonderful beast the Stump is! ...

Microdisney: Mean Fiddler, Harlesden, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 12 March 1988

A CONTROLLED, tactical performance from an outfit carefully building up to an all out frontal assault. I give you warning: Microdisney are out to get ...

The Pixies, Throwing Muses: Throwing Muses, The Pixies: Mean Fiddler, Harlesden, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 16 April 1988

"WHAT ABOUT those Pixies – motherf***ers, huh?" enquired a grinning Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses. She referred to the previous band and no one in ...

The Sugarcubes: Astoria, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 28 May 1988

BJÖRK AND EINAR'S LAUGHTER SHOW ...

Alexander O'Neal: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 4 June 1988

NOW THIS was amazing, so stop sniggering at the back. Three songs into this all-lovin', all-lovin' and all-lovin' showcase, Alex convinced me of his true ...

Felt: Dingwalls, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 23 July 1988

FELT, IF NOT a maligned band, are certainly underrated by a great many people, while far less adept '60s archivists like Primal Scream are praised ...

Loop: The Greyhound, Fulham, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 30 July 1988

SO WHAT do you want me to say — that Loop are sensorious sonic (s)lab technicians and evil dangerous muthas to boot? That'd be easy; ...

The Fall: Monarchy In The UK

Interview by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 5 November 1988

Ballet, national anthems, William Of Orange and Blake's poems are all getting in on The Fall's act. Mark E Smith explains all while discussing their ...

The Pixies: Animal Crackers

Interview by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 6 May 1989

Only a year after their first ever UK visit, Pixies are a Top Ten albums band! Keith Cameron joins their tour in Brighton to find ...

Sonic Youth: A Tzar is Born

Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 13 May 1989

Sonic Youth wound up their 'Daydream Nation' tour in the USSR and Keith Cameron joined them to play chicken in Kiev and Moscow. ...

It Bites: Dinosaur Juniors

Interview by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 17 June 1989

HEWN FROM the living rock of their native Cumbria, It Bites are an archaeologist's nightmare. ...

Lydia Lunch: Scream Until You Like It

Interview by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 23 September 1989

After 13 years of howling into the void, Lydia Lunch is still going strong. Keith Cameron finds out what fuels her anger. ...

The Fatima Mansions: Fatima Mansions: Dingwalls, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 2 December 1989

Nature calls ...

Screaming Trees: Fulham Greyhound, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 10 March 1990

And also the trees ...

The Derelicts (US), Dwarves, The Melvins, Nirvana: Nirvana, The Melvins, Dwarves, The Derelicts: Motorsports International Garage, Seattle

Live Review by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 13 October 1990

The American Uncivil War ...

Nirvana: Take The Money and Run

Interview by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 27 October 1990

If any of the US underground bands are likely to break through into the mainstream, then it's got to be NIRVANA. Currently being courted by ...

Teenage Fanclub: A Snog On The Rocks

Interview by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 3 November 1990

Are TEENAGE FANCLUB the best pop band to emerge in the UK for years or are they just four pissed up Scots taking the piss? ...

Tad: Powerhaus, Islington, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 11 May 1991

THE LARDER THEY COME... ...

Curve: Psykik Dancehall, Windsor

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 18 May 1991

BEND SINISTER ...

Bleach (UK): Bleach: Camden Underworld, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 1 June 1991

THE NAME may seem sufficiently undemanding on the syllable front to vouchsafe dodgy contents within, but taken literally it speaks volumes about the nature of ...

Babes in Toyland: Mean Fiddler, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 22 June 1991

AS YET ANOTHER lame-brain shuffles nervously before taking the plunge, the anti-stage-diving lobby have a point for once. In the context of Babes In Toyland's ...

Babes in Toyland: Wench Warfare

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 29 June 1991

Championed by Sonic Youth and John Peel, hot-blooded all-girl 'foxcore' grunge-rockers BABES IN TOYLAND are coming to your house, sneezing explosively, dissing moms and men ...

Electronic: Electronic

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, July 1991

IT'S THE DREAM ticket – two prime movers from the two most significant British pop groups of the '80s unite to form a unique presidential ...

The Wedding Present: Seamonsters (RCA)

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, July 1991

BY NOT HI-jacking the groovy train in order to revive a flagging career, The Wedding Present now stand virtually alone amongst their mid-'80s indie contemporaries. ...

The Wonder Stuff: Never Loved Elvis

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, July 1991

THE WONDER STUFF are turning into a Madness for the '90s. Both outlived most of their contemporaries to develop their root sound along the lines ...

The Mock Turtles: Two Sides

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, September 1991

AS THE MUSICAL coffers of the '60s increasingly come to resemble a stretch of what used to be the South American rain forests, a band ...

Babes in Toyland, Chapterhouse, Dinosaur Jr, Iggy Pop, Nirvana, Pop Will Eat Itself, Sonic Youth: Reading '91: Reading, Writhing And Riffmatic

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 7 September 1991

FRIDAY: IT WAS obvious, really – he had to say it. Who better than His Supreme Iggyness Of Pop, the Godfather of (s)punk rock, to ...

Nirvana Be In My Gang?

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 21 September 1991

We're talking sublime here. NIRVANA are the greatest band to emerge from the American post-hardcore meltdown since Sonic Youth, they sound nothing like Hüsker Dü ...

Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger (A&M/All formats)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 21 September 1991

TWO YEARS ago, Seattle's Soundgarden were poised for a big-time putsch very similar to Nirvana's impending success story. A&M had spotted the obvious sales potential ...

The Pixies: Pixies: Trompe Le Monde

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, October 1991

WHEN SHAKEY WROTE the one about music being the food of love and wanting excess of it, little did he know that one Black Francis ...

Thin White Rope - Taut

Interview by Keith Cameron, Vox, October 1991

IT'S A TRIBUTE to their dramatic way with all things guitarological that Califor­nia's Thin White Rope are as well known for other peo­ple's songs as ...

Babes In Toyland, Gallon Drunk, Leatherface: Astoria, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 4 January 1992

THOUGH FRANKIE Stubbs later said he found the football field-sized stage spaces "too tiring", Leatherface appeared to thrive on this bigger platform. Guitarist Richie Hammond's ...

Babes in Toyland, Bitch Magnet, Boss Hog, Cows, Crust, The Didjits, Drunks With Guns, Dwarves, Fudge Tunnel, God Bullies, Halo of Flies, Helios Creed, Helmet, Hole, The Jesus Lizard, King Snake Roost, L7, The Membranes, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Pain Teens, Pavement, Pigmy Love Circus, Poison Idea, Skin Yard, Slowjam, Steel Pole Bath Tub, Superchunk, Surgery, Tad, Tar, Therapy?, The Thrown Ups, U-Men, Unsane, Urge Overkill: Grunge Hell

Overview by Keith Cameron, Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 4 January 1992

It's the dawning of a new earache! Jakki Brambles is playing Daisy Chainsaw! Your parents have heard of Nirvana! Geffen are chasing Mudhoney! Madonna's into ...

Therapy?: Medicated Followers Of Thrashin'

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 11 January 1992

Warning: a steady diet of wan-faced doodlers and U2 wannabes can seriously damage your health. Solution: get some THERAPY?, Irish shitkickers with a bottom-baring fetish ...

Smashing Pumpkins: Smells Like Halloween Spirit

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 1 February 1992

With Nirvana a copper-bottomed rock phenomenon, the race is on to discover the Next Big Thing amongst America's 'alternative rock' ranks. Despite an acclaimed album ...

American Music Club, ULU, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 15 February 1992

ONE SONG in, and the unthinkable appears to have happened. A young woman is dragged from the throng and placed on the stage, flat out ...

Buffalo Tom: Of Bison Men

Profile and Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 14 March 1992

DESPITE BEING a rusting theme park 40 subway minutes from downtown New York, Coney Island has a lot going for it. ...

L7: Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 14 March 1992

BEWARE the curse of the flying TV camera. LA might be Rock City but tonight its high priestesses of dissolute turbo-grunge are ruefully bemoaning their ...

Right Said Fred: Testicle Dept

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 14 March 1992

DATELINE, NEW YORK. Right Said Fred have just topped the US charts with 'I'm Too Sexy' and their witty, zippy video squeezes itself gingerly into ...

Nirvana: Smells Like Chlorine Spirit

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 21 March 1992

IT'S 9AM IN Tacoma and Nirvana bassist Chris Novoselic has just got up. He's got things to do, cats to feed, a house to move ...

The Boo Radleys: Everything's Alright Forever (Creation/All formats)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 21 March 1992

OF COURSE, they said it would be this good. And while The Boo Radley's stout-hearted self-opinion was a cheering presence in 1991's (complacen)sea of mumbles ...

L7: L's Belles

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 28 March 1992

Don't be fooled by the lighter side of award-winning (and not-the-female-Nirvana) LA grunge gals L7 – they may delight in the trash aesthetic of Hollywood, ...

Ride: Going Blank Again

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, April 1992

GROWING UP in public is the unhappy lot of any semi-competent British indie band and, as probably the most able floppy-fringed wan-faced contenders of the ...

Blur, Dinosaur Jr, The Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine: Rollercoaster: Will and Jim's Excellent Misadventure

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 4 April 1992

The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr, Blur: Glasgow SECC ...

The Bay City Rollers, Judge Dread, Mungo Jerry, The Rubettes, Suzi Quatro: Suzi Quatro/Judge Dread/Mungo Jerry/Les McKeown's '70s Bay City Rollers/The Rubettes: Town & Country Club, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 4 April 1992

MAYBE IT'S for the best that Marc Bolan didn't take that bend as well as he'd have liked back in '77. Otherwise we might now ...

Soundgarden: Whole Allotment O'Love

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 11 April 1992

Sweet soil music! Somewhere between the excess of Heavy Metal and the austerity of alternative rock — in Seattle, in other words — lie SOUNDGARDEN, ...

Afghan Whigs: Congregation (Sub Pop/All formats)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 18 April 1992

YOU THINK the world is f—ed? Take time out for a long, hard constitutional inside your own heart, friends, and chances are things won't look ...

The Jesus & Mary Chain: Manual Overdrive: The Jesus And Mary Chain: Honey's Dead (blanco y negro BYNLP 26)

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, May 1992

SINCE THEIR last album, 1989's impressive but thinly spread Automatic, a host of fledgling noise outfits have weighed in with claims for the Mary Chain's ...

Seam, Yo La Tengo: Yo La Tengo, Seam: Borderline, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 30 May 1992

"A FUNNY thing happened to us on the way to the gig." Whereupon Seam's Sooyoung Park demonstrates that the US/UK cultural gap still occasionally yawns ...

Pavement: Slanted And Enchanted (Matador)

Review and Interview by Keith Cameron, Vox, June 1992

Cracked Geniuses ...

The Lemonheads: It's A Shame About Ray

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 11 July 1992

Ray To Go, Dando! ...

Sonic Youth: Dirty

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, August 1992

WHEN NIRVANA released their epoch-making Nevermind, their ambitions extended no further than selling as many copies as Sonic Youth's major label debut, Goo. As chance ...

Babes in Toyland: Pieces Of Hate: Babes In Toyland: Fontanelle (Southern/All formats)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 22 August 1992

JUST AS THE word "love" is now virtually meaningless, its intensity sapped by decades of everyday misuse, so too has "hate" become an emotion too ...

Nirvana: Love Will Tear Us Apart

Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 29 August 1992

As Nevermind zoomed past Bono & Jacko, so the rumours started: Kurt Is Dead ...Kurt & Courtney & heroin ...As the bulldozers continue to gather ...

Screaming Trees: Powerhaus, Islington, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 12 September 1992

THOSE OF the opinion that rock 'n' roll is a soft option are advised to cast a cynical glance at the Screaming Trees. Singer Mark ...

Buffalo Tom: Town & Country Club, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 19 September 1992

CONSIDER CHRIS. Indeed, consider Chris Colbourn, bass-player from the excellent Boston three-piece Buffalo Tom, a man for whom nerves are a no-no. ...

Screaming Trees: Bark Psychotics

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 19 September 1992

Are these guys for arboreal? Nursing an enviable collection of broken bones, SCREAMING TREES are pulling away from their Seattle roots and branching out into ...

The Blue Aeroplanes: Town & Country Club, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 19 September 1992

"ARE YOU now, or have you ever been, a member of the Blue Aeroplanes?" The T&C foyer merchandise stall is surrounded by hundreds of puzzled ...

R.E.M.: Automatic For The People (Warner Bros 9362-45055-2)

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, November 1992

DESPITE THE crew's best attempts to shift course, the good ship R.E.M. appears to be heading inescapably towards that dreamland reserved for rock bands with ...

Sonic Youth: Dirtysomething

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 12 December 1992

As the Godparents of punk, SONIC YOUTH have seen their children break into the mainstream during the past year, signing major label deals and attempting ...

Radiohead: Smashed!, Islington, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 19 December 1992

BY ALL accounts — primarily their own — Radiohead are Angry Young Men. And with good cause. Gig convention has it that the band's-mates-down-the-front scenario ...

Nirvana: Incesticide (Geffen)

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, January 1993

THE TITLE could be a swipe at the legions of bootleggers, whose unwelcome attention Nirvana attracted the moment they attained superstar status. In fact, this ...

Belly: Rough Trade Shop, Covent Garden, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 23 January 1993

THE STARLIGHT EXPRESS ...

Dinosaur Jr.: Dinosaur Jr: Where You Been

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, February 1993

WITH SCRUFFY, laid-back dudish-ness currently the viable rockin' role model for today's young unemployables, the time is right for the return of the man who ...

Rage Against The Machine: Rage Against The Machine (Epic/All formats)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 6 February 1993

THE RAP-rock crossover is a long-cherished ideal that has invariably tarnished the credentials of its various practitioners and collaborators. Just as Run DMC were consigned ...

American Music Club: Join Our Club

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 13 March 1993

"I SAY A lot of stupid things," Mark Eitzel stares directly into Boy George's eyes and for a moment is very sombre. ...

Suede: Suede (Nude)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 27 March 1993

A VERY BRETTISH COUP ...

Butthole Surfers: Independent Worm Saloon (Capitol)

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, April 1993

WITH THEIR last album, 1991's half-hearted Pioughd, the Butthole Surfers appeared to be relying on a well-cultivated knack for elaborate in-jokes, almost to the exclusion ...

Radiohead: Pablo Honey (Parlophone)

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, April 1993

JUDGING FROM THE debut by this Oxford four-piece, the post-Nirvana grunge fall-out would appear to have infiltrated even the well-mannered climes of English suburban guitar ...

Senseless Things: Empire Of The Senseless

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, April 1993

ALWAYS UNABASHED about their reverence for the work of those more intuitively gifted than themselves, the Senseless Things have hitherto struggled to sustain their workmanlike ...

Anthrax, Angelo Badalamenti, Public Enemy: Anthrax: Rap Metal Dealers

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 22 May 1993

Once upon a time, there was a super-competent trad-thrash band with a poodle-headed singer. They boldly entered the rock/rap crossover zone, collaborating with the cred-worthy ...

Gallon Drunk, PJ Harvey: PJ Harvey, Gallon Drunk: Rock City, Nottingham

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 22 May 1993

LIKE IGGY said, all aboard for Fun Time. The pat preconceptions hanging around this inspired pairing suggest that chuckles will be thin on the ground. ...

Blur: Modern Life Is Rubbish (Food)

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, June 1993

Wasting Their Time ...

Manic Street Preachers: Gold Against The Soul

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, August 1993

ONCE IT HAD BECOME OBVIOUS that MI5 had nothing to fear from four mascara'd bedroom situationists fond of carving lumps out of their own flesh ...

Nirvana: Beyond The Thrash-hold Of Cobain: Nirvana: Roseland Ballroom, New York

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 7 August 1993

IT'S DEAFENING. Thurston Moore has his fingers in his ears. Lee Ranaldo's son Cody is wearing ear muffs. Even Courtney Love looks a little taken ...

Buffalo Tom: Borderline, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 2 October 1993

OLÉ TRINITY ...

Buffalo Tom: Borderline, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 2 October 1993

OLÉ TRINITY ...

Madonna: Girlie In A Coma: Madonna: Wembley Stadium, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 2 October 1993

8.25PM: SHE'S HERE. Heads swivel and mouths gawp as her Royal Raunchiness makes an entrance few could hope to emulate. "I saw her! I saw ...

Mazzy Star: So Tonight That I Might See (Capitol)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 2 October 1993

WITH THEIR debut album, 1990's She Hangs Brightly, Mazzy Star ensured their place in that corner of rock's honour roll reserved for the enigmas and ...

Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen (Blast First/All Formats)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 9 October 1993

MANNERS FROM HEAVEN ...

The Lemonheads: Evan Dando

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 25 December 1993

THE BOX HELPS. Men are, on average, taller than women, and at least it brings Her nearer to Him, thus conferring a little more credibility ...

Jeff Buckley: A Son's Star Trip: Jeff Buckley: Borderline, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 2 April 1994

"I NEED A Guinness," murmurs Jeff Buckley, after completing one of his many audacious sorties on the collective heartstring this evening. "And I really mean ...

Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: "We Just Cannot Realise How Troubled This Soul Was..."

Comment by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 16 April 1994

I FIRST MET Kurt Cobain on the night of December 3, 1989. His band had been on the road for weeks, touring the European toilet ...

L7: Old Trout, Windsor

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 25 June 1994

SANITARY CONFINEMENT ...

A Tribe Called Quest, The Beastie Boys, The Boredoms, The Breeders, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, George Clinton, Flaming Lips, The Frogs, L7, Rollerskate Skinny, Smashing Pumpkins, The Verve: It's The 'Looza Baby, Why Don't You Kill It?

Report by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 30 July 1994

LOLLAPALOOZA once had the chance to be the greatest rock'n'roll circus the planet had ever seen. But, in spite of the live spectacle of VERVE, ...

Kylie Minogue: A Wallaby Together

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 3 September 1994

It's been a difficult gestation, but the world looks set to witness the rebirth of KYLIE MINOGUE as she emerges from the cocoon with colourful ...

Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips: Astoria 2, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 17 September 1994

YOU MIGHT regard the hirsute scruffball demeanour as proof of their berth on the now ritually condemned HMS Slacker, but in fact The Flaming Lips ...

The Jesus & Mary Chain: Jesus and Mary Chain: Sporran Co-Despondents

Profile and Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 24 September 1994

After ten years on the road, the Jesus and Mary Chain find themselves in pretty much the same place they've been for years: on licensed ...

Ash: Boys Who Like Hurls

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 25 March 1995

ASH may be fresh-faced teens but they're hardly naïve kids. The Irish striplings are currently the coveted prize in a US bidding war involving such ...

Nirvana: "I Don't Believe In Closing Off Options"

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 8 April 1995

Back in August 1991, NIRVANA were just the latest in a long line of US rock hopefuls. Newly signed to Geffen, Nevermind was about to ...

McAlmont & Butler, Edwyn Collins: Hanover Grand, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 20 May 1995

THE LEGACY of the ampersand in rock is, frankly, mixed. For every Lennon & McCartney you can bank on the lurking presence of a Foster ...

Peter Andre, East 17: East 17, Peter Andre, Deuce, J-Pac: SECC, Glasgow

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 3 June 1995

COCKNEY REVELS ...

Foo Fighters: King Foo: Foo Fighters: King's College, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 10 June 1995

TRUE, THE FACT THAT the hall is christened "Tutu's" is something of a giveaway, as indeed are the alarmingly generous bar tariffs. But if this ...

Blur: Graham Coxon: I'm Completely at Odds With Everything

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 23 September 1995

He hated the 'Country House' video and had doubts about it as a single. He thought of sabotaging his band's attempts to win that coveted ...

Bis: Bis and Shake Up

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 21 October 1995

DARLING, they're the young ones — but only just. With two-thirds of their group now contemplating life on the wrong side of 18, Bis, Glasgow's ...

Rocket From The Crypt: Cats With Nine Knives

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 28 October 1995

They mean it, maaan. Punk from the States is so often tame, familiar and predictable, but that looks set to change with the imminent success ...

AC/DC: Ballbreaker (Elektra)

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, November 1995

Black In The Saddle ...

Foo Fighters: The Foo Epidemic

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, December 1995

IT'S BEEN QUITE A YEAR for Foo Fighters, shaking off the ghosts of the past and confounding the expectations of those who consider Dave Grohl ...

Pulp: Different Class (Island)

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, December 1995

WHERE, ONE wonders, does he do the dishes? The pre-eminence gris of kitchen-sink drama has spent so long washing other people's dirty linen, the plumbing ...

Add N To (X): On The Wires Of Our Nerves (Satellite/CD/LP)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 31 January 1996

ADD N TO (X) have heard the future, and it sounds old. These three merry pranksters inhabit a dimension dedicated solely to unearthing the most ...

Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips: Vote Labia!

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 17 February 1996

Twelve years and seven albums down the line and only now are Oklahomans THE FLAMING LIPS making their presence felt. At last we can let ...

Mark Morrison: Return Of The Mack (WEA/All formats)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 4 May 1996

AND YOU never realised this pint-sized package of prefab perv actually was a mack or that he'd been away, correct? No matter. Disregard the harsh ...

Manic Street Preachers, Oasis: Oasis: ...And Noddy Holder Came Too

Report by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 11 May 1996

What a weekend! The parties! The stars! The footballers! The, er, free candyfloss! Yes, we were there at those exclusive do's held in honour of ...

Beck: Odelay (Geffen/All formats)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 22 June 1996

MR BOHO RISING ...

Elvis Costello: A Good Year For The Composer

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 29 June 1996

HE IS THE Music Man, he comes from down your way. And he can play. Oh, he can play pretty much anything you care to ...

Manic Street Preachers: Cool LA Shakers!

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 12 October 1996

It should have been great Supporting Oasis in the US. But the Gallaghers' squabbles also meant that the MANIC STREET PREACHERS had to fly home ...

Depeche Mode: Dave Gahan: Dead Man Talking

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 18 January 1997

IN AN UPSTAIRS lounge at Abbey Road Studios, a man perched on the edge of a large black sofa stares at the video images on ...

Curtis Mayfield: New World Order (Warner Bros/All formats)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 25 January 1997

HE SAW his people endure hard times and dedicated his life to evangelising alternative paths. He was a soul singer, a streetwise prophet, one of ...

Depeche Mode: Synth and Sensibilities

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 25 January 1997

Last week Dave Gahan flabbered your collective 'gast with his terrible tale of all-round narcotic foolishness. In the second part of our DEPECHE MODE exclusive ...

Coldcut, DJ Krush: Coldcut & DJ Food Vs DJ Krush: Cold Krush Cuts (Ninja Tune/CD only)

Review by Keith Cameron, Melody Maker, 1 February 1997

CHILLER ON THE LOOSE ...

Take That: Mark Owen: Pretty Verdant

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 15 February 1997

He was known as the cute one, the member of Take That most likely to adorn pubescent girls' bedroom walls, the one who sang and ...

U2 Part One: 'Only Now Do We Look Cool'

Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 8 March 1997

But that's not all that's changed. Yes, you read it here first...U2, those hoary old rock behemoths, have gone dance! Sort of! ...

U2 Part Two: 'I Feel Caught Between the Bootboy and the Ponce'

Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 15 March 1997

Ah, the problems of being the biggest band in the world. In the second of a two-part special, Keith Cameron keeps up with U2 as ...

The Jam: Direction Reaction Creation

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, May 1997

IF WE ACCEPT pop as the religion of youth in the last quarter of the 20th century, then there can be no more striking example ...

Wilco: Last Twang in Town

Interview by Keith Cameron, Vox, May 1997

THE WAITRESS next door to the Blue Note desperately wants to come, but she couldn't get the night off work. "Oh, it'll be fantastic!" she ...

Future Pilot AKA

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 30 August 1997

SHE REDUCED Nick Cave to a pool of molten Vegemite, then persuaded James and Sean Manic to write her back into the realm of pop ...

Flaming Lips: Zaireeka (Warner Bros.)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 3 January 1998

IN THE REALM OF musicological discourse, the term 'genius' has been overused virtually to the point of obsoletion. So it bears stating at the outset ...

Massive Attack: Mezzanine (Virgin)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 18 April 1998

FLOORED GENIUS ...

Blur: 13

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 10 March 1999

TWO-AND-a-half minutes into the tenth track on his band's sixth album Damon Albarn is heard to ponder: "Where is the magic?/I've got to get better". ...

Electronic: So I Took Her, And That's My Bet Lynch Story

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 17 April 1999

Electronic's Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr may have a new album out but – heck – we've just got to hear about that Bet Lynch ...

Arab Strap: Mad For Sadness (Go! Beat)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 1 May 1999

Live Aidan! ...

Elliott Smith: Pretty Barfly: Elliott Smith

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 1 May 1999

ELLIOTT SMITH is a philosopher, a jocular barroom buddy, but he's also a loner, the Bukowski-esque malcontent with a great American sadness etched into his ...

Atari Teenage Riot: 'I Would Die For This'

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 8 May 1999

...And Atari Teenage Riot's Alec Empire means it. So away, you doubters, and come on feel the mid-frequencies! ...

Shack: Talking Heads

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 15 May 1999

This is a story of highs and lows. Of drug addiction, of long lost albums, wasted opportunities and ultimately — perhaps — much deserved success. ...

Technique: 100 Club, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 22 July 1999

SUCH IS THE brouhaha provoked by Technique in their brief career that one might innocently suppose it had something to do with their music, and ...

Gigolo Aunts: The Garage, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 3 August 1999

THE PAST IS a foreign country, and it's where the Gigolo Aunts choose to live. "Last time we were here we were touring with the ...

Ben & Jason, Witness: Witness/Ben & Jason: The Social, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 20 August 1999

SO CONVIVIAL IS the Heavenly record label's latest location for West End hi-living that any act willing to take on its Wednesday night acoustic challenge ...

Martine McCutcheon: You Me & Us (Virgin)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 4 September 1999

THE TIFF GET GOING ...

Leftfield: "We Waited. That's What We Did."

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 11 September 1999

...And eventu-bloody-ally, after four long years, Leftfield have got their she-iiit together on another mighty fine album. Or is it arse?! Have your say! ...

David Bowie: David Buckley: Strange Fascination – The Definitive David Bowie Story

Book Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 23 September 1999

WHILE MOST BOWIE biographies (notably Alias David Bowie, Peter & Leni Gillman's 1986 exposé of family mental illness and the Bowie "myth") are as welcome ...

Dot Allison, Arab Strap: Arab Strap, Dot Allison: Islington Union Chapel, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 25 September 1999

Smitten souls ...

Arab Strap: Pachyderms of Endearment

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 2 October 1999

You're not going to believe this but Arab Strap are in love. Yes, the band who always look on the shite side of life are ...

Wheat: Water Rat, King's Cross

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 5 October 1999

IN A RELATIVELY brief career, one imagines Wheat are already weary of agricultural quips prompted by their name. But it would help if the Massachusetts ...

Mogwai: Ferry Pranksters

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 23 October 1999

Life with Mogwai has always been a strange whirl, but after 27 hours on a ferry to Norway with them, a karaoke, a skate video ...

Jimmy Webb: Pizza on the Park, London ***

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 28 October 1999

WHEN THE Boo Radleys wrote a song called 'Jimmy Webb is God' they presumably weren't gripped by a vision of the Lord playing a gig ...

Chuck Prophet: Underworld, London ****

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 17 November 1999

IN 1989 CHUCK Prophet was the snake-hipped, guitar-slinging foil to Dan Stuart's punch-drunk sheriff in American rock'n'rollers Green On Red. ...

Beck: Midnite Vultures (Geffen)

Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 20 November 1999

LOVE SEXXY! ...

Pavement: Brixton Academy, London ****

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 22 November 1999

A grave goodnight ...

Foo Fighters: Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 23 November 1999

A THREADBARE Celtic cliché claims audiences at this decrepit old ballroom are better than anywhere else in the country, perhaps even the world. But as ...

Henry Rollins: LSE Old Theatre, London ****

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 30 November 1999

SOMEWHERE UP there, reclining on a celestial tobacco cloud, Bill Hicks must cast a rueful eye towards the one-man stand-up multi-gym that is Henry Rollins. ...

The Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Oasis, Primal Scream, Super Furry Animals, Teenage Fanclub: The Dawn of Creation (and the middle and the end)

Report by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 11 December 1999

SO THE party's over. Alan McGee has picked up his ball and moved on, to pastures new — multimedia and, no doubt, highly lucrative. Although ...

Gene: Forum, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 18 January 2000

AS THE MUSIC industry struggles to acclimatise to the brave new online era, it's somehow fitting that the first major gig of the year should ...

The Wannadies: Dingwalls, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 20 January 2000

THE OLD ADAGE says that a pop song is only truly popular once postmen are heard whistling it, but the approbation of bar staff isn't ...

Terris: Astoria, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 29 January 2000

EVERY YEAR they come, wan-faced desperadoes who all too willingly pronounce themselves saviours of that raddled old nag we know as rock 'n' roll. ...

The Cure: Astoria, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 11 February 2000

IF LIFE REALLY begins at 40, then pity Robert Smith, a man who has spent more than 20 years ruminating on the sheer hopelessness of ...

Pete Townshend's Lifehouse: Sadler's Wells, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 28 February 2000

PETE TOWNSHEND at Sadler's Wells? The ex-Who star's venue for this performance of the 30-years-in-the-making rock opera Lifehouse was, like its recent broadcast on Radio ...

Cypress Hill: Astoria, London ****

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 28 March 2000

THE ONGOING debate about the decriminalisation of cannabis seems redundant when a substantial proportion of the 1,800 people shoehorned into the Astoria have voted with ...

Public Enemy: New Trinity, Bristol

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 29 May 2000

THOUGH THEY NO longer dominate hip hop as they did 10 years ago, it's worth remembering that, before Public Enemy, rap was not an instinctively ...

Travis: Fran's across the ocean

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 3 June 2000

Drawing to the end of a US tour that's outlasted even their tourbus, and gearing up for their biggest UK hit, Travis reveal how they ...

Cat Power: The Spitz, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 10 June 2000

A shuffle in the dark: Cat Power leaves Keith Cameron ill at ease ...

Bright Eyes: On Band: Bright Eyes

Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 1 July 2000

AT THE RIPE age of 20, Conor Oberst is a little long in the tooth to be properly termed a prodigy, but his talents are ...

Gene: They Have A Dream – A California Dream

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 6 July 2000

… On their uppers after parting company with Polydor, the ever-resourceful Gene decamped to L.A., where a three-gig residency turned into a hugely successful webcast ...

Sizzla: And You Will Know Him By His Trail Of Dreads

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 2 September 2000

Meet Sizzla, Rastafarian musical missionary and the biggest star to emerge from Jamaica in years. He does what he does, and if anyone emigrates to ...

Magazine: Maybe It's Right to Be Nervous Now (Virgin, 3CDs) ****

Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 22 September 2000

FOLLOWING AN initial period of liberation, punk, like all revolutionary forces, soon substituted new orthodoxies for those it had blown apart. ...

Doves: On-Seine Posse!: Doves: Batofar, Paris

Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 23 September 2000

EVER SINCE not winning the Mercury Music lash-up thingy, Doves have clearly decided to obliterate their disappointment amid a flurry of activity. So it is ...

Radiohead: Victoria Park, London ****

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 25 September 2000

FOR DARLINGS of an allegedly slack generation, you can't deny Radiohead have high standards. This is the band who recently took 373 days to record ...

The Kingsbury Manx: Water Rats, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 3 October 2000

IN THEIR RIOT OF VISUAL UNDERSTATEMENT, The Kingsbury Manx suggest a new derivation of math-rock that has little to do with rigorously precise musicianship and ...

AC/DC: NEC Arena, Birmingham

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 30 November 2000

MORE THAN 25 years after they started it, AC/DC are still playing it – the riff. The same sticklebacked three-chord trick has been their passport ...

Nirvana: This Is Pop

Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, May 2001

The plan was simple: make a raw, honest punk album within 14 days. Then big business intervened. The troubled story of Nirvana's In Utero. ...

Joy Division: Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, June 2001

Twenty-one years ago, Paris heard the primal scream. Official release of famous bootlegged Paris concert. Anthony Wilson contributes, typically (and justifiably) hyperbolic sleevenotes. ...

Travis: Songs in the Key of Life: Travis

Interview by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 23 June 2001

IF THERE IS ONE thing you can be completely sure of, it is this: at some point today, a U.K. radio station will play a ...

Sparklehorse: Out Of The Woods

Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, July 2001

BEHIND AN 1850s Virginia farmhouse sits Static King, the recording studio where Mark Linkous made the first two Sparklehorse albums. We are not looking at ...

The Strokes: Zodiac, Oxford

Live Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, August 2001

THE NEXT BIG Thing is pop's perennial shaggy dog: the louder the anticipatory bark, the meeker reality's bite. So with a guest-list roughly the size ...

Spacemen 3, Spiritualized: Spiritualized: Run Silent Run Deep

Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, October 2001

Others lost their heads, but Spiritualized's Jason Pierce stuck to his vision. Keith Cameron unravels 10 years of hedonism, hard graft and betrayal. ...

Nirvana, Tad: Burn Baby Burn! Sub Pop's 1989 tour of Europe

Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, Q, March 2002

Started: Riverside, Newcastle, 23 October 1989 Finished: Astoria, London, 3 December 1989 Bands: Nirvana, Tad ...

The Stranglers: Come and Join the Unruly Escapades

Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, August 2002

HANS WARMLING was fed up of life in the ice cream van. He'd come to England from his homeland of Sweden to play guitar and ...

The White Stripes: Chemistry Set: The White Stripes: Metro, Chicago

Live Review by Keith Cameron, Q, September 2002

Sparks fly as the blues-crazed siblings/spouses/whatever take the stage. ...

Iron & Wine: The Creek Drank The Cradle

Review and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, January 2003

Debut album from 28-year-old Miami cinematographer and part-time roots savant Sam Beam. Could be time to quit the day job. ...

New Order: Retro (London)

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, January 2003

4-CD stocking filler makes mischief with Mancunian pop visionaries' oft-compiled back catalogue. The 72-page booklet has band-written notes. ...

Nirvana: Breathe

Retrospective by Keith Cameron, MOJO, January 2003

Nirvana's metamorphosis from callow punk geeks to the globe-stomping rock phenomenon of Nevermind took little more than a year. In between lay a chaotic tale ...

Cat Power: You Are Free

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, March 2003

First new album of (mostly) self-penned material from Atlanta-raised Chan Marshall since 1998's Moon Pix. Features guest vocals from Bill Callahan and Eddie Vedder, plus ...

The Libertines: England Expects

Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, March 2003

They're British punk's greatest hopes, yet they still live in a flat with no gas or running water. Welcome to the darkly romantic world of ...

The White Stripes: The Sweetheart Deal

Interview by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 29 March 2003

"SPERAMUS MELIORA; resurget cineribus" – the motto of the city of Detroit translates as "We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes". ...

Calexico

Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, April 2003

PACKING UP his gear after a recent gig in Dublin, Calexico's Joey Burns was approached by a young couple. Would you play at our wedding? ...

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Cosmic Girl: Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever To Tell (Polydor) ****

Review by Keith Cameron, Q, May 2003

No prizes for guessing the hyped Brooklynites' secret weapon. ...

Mogwai: Happy Songs For Happy People

Review and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, July 2003

Fourth full album from Scots noise miscreants. Self-produced in Glasgow after two in USA with Flaming Lips/Mercury Rev cohort Dave Fridmann. ...

R.E.M.: Captains of Industry

Profile and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, July 2003

World tour, new album, R.E.M. are fit, happy and working again. Twenty years ago it was all so different. ...

Zwan: Who's Laughing Now?

Interview by Keith Cameron, Q, August 2003

Billy Corgan, actually. Kick-starting Zwan has given the former alpha goth misery guts a new zest for life. Or was it New Order's relentless piss-taking? ...

Ryan Adams: Rock'n'Roll (Lost Highway) ****

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, November 2003

Fourth solo album from erstwhile alt country poster-boy. Recorded in 13 days in New York with James Barber, aka Mr Courtney Love. ...

Grandaddy: Corn Exchange, Brighton

Live Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, February 2004

"THAT LAST song started with the letter 'g'," frowns Jason Lytle from beneath his truck-stop hat. "This song starts with the letter 'g'." ...

John Lydon: Fist of Fury

Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, February 2004

After 17 years as a California exile, John Lydon in 2004 occupies his time with satellite football, a new solo album and railing against his ...

Sophia: People Are Like Seasons

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, February 2004

Fourth album from Euro-resident US singer-songwriter Robin Proper-Sheppard. ...

The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, April 2004

AN EXISTENTIAL obstacle course. A meditation on the ineffable mysteries of love. An incredible pop record. ...

The Fiery Furnaces: Sheffield University

Live Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, May 2004

The best blues-based US sibling duo since, oooh, Sparks bring some steel. ...

Morrissey: Who's The Daddy?

Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, June 2004

After seven years away, Morrissey, the exiled don of indie misery, is back, with some old scores to settle. Keith Cameron meets the ex-Smiths frontman ...

Wilco: A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)

Review and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, July 2004

Album five from Chicago-based soul-seekers. Release delayed following Jeff Tweedy's spell in rehab. ...

PJ Harvey: Primavera Sound Festival, Poble Espanyol, Barcelona

Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, Q, August 2004

As flamboyant and enigmatic as ever, now with added boozing. ...

The Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat

Review and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, September 2004

The US sister-brother act who really are brother and sister decided it would be a good idea to make a prog-pop concept album. Crazy — ...

Kelley Stoltz: Antique Glow (Beautiful Happiness)

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, October 2004

A Detroit native preoccupied with traffic cones: meet your new favourite lo-fi troubadour. ...

Mark Lanegan: Death Valley Blues

Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, October 2004

MARK LANEGAN HAS JUST PUT THE unfiltered Camel to his lips when there's a knock at the door. It's his UK record company's PR. "I ...

Black Francis: Frank Black Francis: Black Francis Demo/Frank Black Francis

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, November 2004

THE ONGOING rapprochement of Frank Black with Black Francis represents a remarkable turnaround. This is the man who, on the advent of what would prove ...

The Pixies: The Rebirth of the Pixies

Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, January 2005

2004 brought 103 Pixies gigs. The artist once again known as Black Francis accepts our applause. ...

Manic Street Preachers: Out Demons Out!

Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, February 2005

With The Holy Bible The Manic Street Preachers jettisoned situationist glamour for a defiant, post-punk nihilism that chartered the mental deterioration of their chief lyricist, ...

Secret Machines: Barfly, London

Live Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, February 2005

FOR A BAND that makes very large music, Secret Machines suit small venues. Doubtless, their flipped-wig headcrunch will soon be laying waste to enormodomes. But ...

Bloc Party: Silent Alarm

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, March 2005

The smart money's favourite for Next Big Thing remember to make a good debut album. ...

Dinosaur Jr.: Dinosaur Jr: Dinosaur/You're Living All Over Me/Bug

Review and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, April 2005

Before Nirvana, there was Dinosaur Jr: forging a new kind of power pop, making guitar solos cool again, struggling with dreadful social skills. Keith Cameron ...

Arcade Fire: Great Expectations

Profile and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, June 2005

With their startling debut album, American-Canadian collective the Arcade Fire have accumulated a fervent word-of-mouth following that numbers David Bowie, Beck, Bjork and David Byrne ...

Dinosaur Jr.: Dinosaur Jr: Vera, Groningen

Live Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, August 2005

After a 15-year-cold war, legendary post-hardcore trio finally buries the hatchet. Lay down thy zimmer frame and pogo. ...

Franz Ferdinand: Conquistadors! Franz Ferdinand in Madrid

Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, October 2005

Glasgow's skinny-ribbed art-punk superstars enjoy a Spanish stroll. Hola boys! says Keith Cameron ...

My Morning Jacket: Z

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, October 2005

Epic sounds from the Big Country, with a pocketful of soul and sanctified song. The Kentucky quintet's fourth album is a religious experience, says Keith ...

Madonna: Stayin' Alive: Madonna: Confessions On A Dancefloor (Warner Bros) ****

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, December 2005

Her Madgesty's career saving eleventh album proves it's never too late to get back into the groove ...

The Strokes: First Impressions Of Earth

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, February 2006

Can everyone's favourite Big Apple posh-boy pin-ups beat the third album hoodoo? Or are they just talkin' 'bout their Blank Generation? ...

Morrissey: Ringleader Of The Tormentors

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, April 2006

Funny things happen on the way to the Forum: Morrissey's eighth album is a love-letter to Rome and getting it on. ...

Wire: Tense, Nervous, Headache

Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, April 2006

Combining art school sensibilities and musical inability, Wire rejected punk's pub-rock posturings for driving minimalism, fewer chords and no guitar solos. With the reissue of ...

The Raconteurs: Gang Of Four

Profile and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, May 2006

Take Jack White's soul power. Add Brendan Benson's pop savvy. Chuck in a garage-rock rhythm section. Result? 21st century pop-rock supergroup, the Raconteurs. ...

Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped

Review and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, July 2006

They created a new vocabulary for rock guitar and turned tricks with both the avant-garde and MTV kids. After 25 years, can Sonic Youth still ...

The Jesus & Mary Chain: The Jesus And Mary Chain: Black Eyes, White Noise

Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, October 2006

Born of new town alienation, sibling rivalry, and teen dreams of the ultimate band, the Jesus And Mary Chain cut through the glossy flab of ...

The Lemonheads: The Lemonheads

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, October 2006

Forget smoking rocks, just bring back the rock. After a 10-year hiatus, Evan Dando returns to his first love. ...

Primal Scream: Bobby Gillespie

Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, November 2006

He's the jive-talking jackdaw who's led Primal Scream through foul weather and, er...foul. Yet, 22 years on, what has Bobby Gillespie learned? "It's not nice ...

The Stooges: Return To The Fun House

Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, April 2007

SCENES OF PRIMAL rock'n'roll hoopla are not the normal preserve of a Butlins holiday camp. Yet behind the stage of the Reds ballroom, next door ...

Arctic Monkeys: The Q Interview: Alex Turner: "I still feel very much a boy"

Interview by Keith Cameron, Q, July 2007

On Friday, 22 June the Arctic Monkeys will headline Glastonbury. Favourite Worst Nightmare is the year's fastest selling album. Their time is assuredly now. But ...

The Boys Next Door, Radio Birdman, The Saints, The Scientists: Come the Revolution: Oz punk

Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 20 July 2007

You thought punks in the UK had things to be angry about? Over in Australia, bands had a real fight on their hands, says Keith ...

Foo Fighters: "I've never gotten off on chaos"

Interview by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 14 September 2007

FOO FIGHTER Dave Grohl talks to Keith Cameron about what kept him alive and kicking after the death of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. ...

Foo Fighters, Nirvana: Dave Grohl: Captain Good Vibes

Profile and Interview by Keith Cameron, Brisbane Times, 6 October 2007

THE DALMACIA HOTEL in Hammersmith, west London, is clean but frills-free. That it can offer competitively priced triple rooms means its clientele sometimes includes rock ...

Cat Power: Jukebox

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, January 2008

The nu-model soul diva waxes poetic on her second eclectic offering of cover versions. ...

PJ Harvey: An Interview

Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, January 2008

Keith Cameron speaks to Polly Jean about finding her voice, the muse and playing harmonica down the pub. ...

AC/DC: Verizon Center, Washington DC ****

Live Review by Keith Cameron, Q, February 2009

Their album went Number 1 in 29 countries, so why would the greatest ever Australian band — still performing with a deranged intensity that belies ...

Nirvana: The Making of Bleach

Retrospective by Keith Cameron, Q, May 2009

THE SMALL WOODEN BUILDING at 4230 Leary Way NW, in the residential Seattle district of Ballard, didn't look like the epicentre of a revolution. But ...

Joy Division, The Smiths: Kevin Cummins: Manchester – Looking For The Light Through The Pouring Rain (Faber & Faber)

Book Review by Keith Cameron, Q, October 2009

Manc-rock, from punk to Oasis, by legendary lensman. ...

Pavement Get Back On The Horse

Interview by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 29 April 2010

Pavement's reunion tour is a gamble in more ways than one — especially for its horse-racing drummer ...

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Hawk

Review by Keith Cameron, Q, September 2010

Third album of rootsy glower from Scots/US beauty/beast duo. ...

Bruce Springsteen: "People thought we were gone. Finished."

Retrospective and Interview by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 23 September 2010

Hobbled by legal wrangles, a frustrated Bruce Springsteen turned Born to Run's optimism on its head – and Darkness on the Edge of Town was ...

Elliott Smith: The Lost Boy

Retrospective by Keith Cameron, Q, January 2011

He was the modern-day Nick Drake: a brilliant, troubled troubadour whose life was cut tragically short in mysterious circumstances, leaving a small but influential legacy. ...

Nirvana: Krist Novoselic and the beatification of Nirvana

Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 5 May 2011

Once the enfants terribles of the Seattle rock underground, Nirvana have now been exalted by the city elders. Bassist Krist Novoselic talks about becoming a ...

Kate Bush: A Portrait Of The Artist

Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, June 2011

Why is Kate Bush re-recording tracks from her most troubled records? Is there really a proper new album in the works? And will the James ...

Laura Marling: A Creature I Don't Know (Virgin) ****

Review by Keith Cameron, Q, September 2011

Nu-folk starlet shines ever brighter on third outing. ...

Dexys: One Day I'm Going To Soar

Review and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, July 2012

HIS LAST RECORD saw him singing 'You'll Never Walk Alone' in make-up and a dress. Now Kevin Rowland has returned to the source, reviving the ...

Johnny Marr: The Messenger

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, March 2013

The former guitarist with the Smiths looks back to go forward. ...

Arctic Monkeys: AM

Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, October 2013

FOR ALL THE advance wow about the Rolling Stones, post-match consensus declared the Arctic Monkeys the star turn of this year's Glastonbury Festival. The Sheffield ...

Simple Minds: Capitol, Hannover

Live Review by Keith Cameron, MOJO, May 2015

THE INFLUENCE of Simple Minds is now a given. In deploying futurist gestures amid a communitarian ethic, the band's hallmark early-'80s work anticipated Arcade Fire ...

My Morning Jacket: The Waterfall

Review and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, June 2015

AFTER 15 YEARS, six albums and hundreds of gigs, the 21st century space cowboys confirm their cosmic legend. ...

Bill Ryder-Jones: West Kirby County Primary

Review and Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, December 2015

Since he left the Coral, the Wirral wunderkind has wrestled inner demons. His third solo album proves he's winning. ...

Eleanor Friedberger — an interview

Interview by Keith Cameron, MOJO, February 2016

THE GONE-SOLO Fiery Furnace talks primal screaming, mums and synchronicity. ...

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