Mick Sinclair
In the first half the 1980s, Mick Sinclair's navigations of the London music scene led to his features and reviews appearing in Sounds, NME, ZigZag and numerous others across the globe, most composed from a desk overlooking the Westway: he chose the desk; the view was coincidental. The ups and downs of these times were recounted his 2013 volume of reminiscences Adjusting The Stars: Music Journalism from post-punk London.
His post-music writing includes a trunk-load of travel guides spanning the Baltic to the Pacific for publishers such as the AA, Thomas Cook and Rough Guides, and cultural and literary histories of San Francisco and the River Thames.
More recently, his observations of the world at large have informed his photography, predominantly of buildings, signs, markings, and other things that don't move, which has appeared in newspapers, magazines, books, and on TV, throughout the world.
Continually since 1979, not counting a brief 30-year gap for rehab, he has written and recorded songs with the Funboy Five, in which his part is integral.
Aside from the above, he is a person of no interest whatsoever.
43 articles
List of articles in the library
The Higsons: Welcome to the Monkey House
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 8 August 1981
MICK SINCLAIR goes bananas to track down THE HIGSONS ...
The Residents: Mark Of The Mole (Ralph RZ 8152)
Review by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 26 September 1981
SOME THREE or four years back I stalked the streets of suburbia besuited in an eclectic and vast selection of safety pins, verily enough of ...
Marine Girls: Mysterious tales of the deep
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 5 December 1981
MICK SINCLAIR dons his scuba gear to meet the MARINE GIRLS ...
Live Review by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 5 December 1981
Higher Ranking ...
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 19 December 1981
Hot on the heels of the Dead Kennedys come L.A. punx Black Flag. ...
Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley: Pete Shelley: Origin of the Species
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 16 January 1982
Pete Shelley discusses humanity with Mick Sinclair ...
Bucks Fizz: Let's Get Fizzical
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 23 January 1982
Gasps Mick Sinclair ...
Review by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 6 March 1982
ALTHOUGH THERE is every possibility that any of a hundred lesser known bands have the potential to one day produce as good an artefact as ...
Blancmange: Custard's last stand
Profile and Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 13 March 1982
Blancmange crack the instant whip ...
Poison Girls, Rubella Ballet: Rubella Ballet: Pop! Go the measles
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 13 March 1982
MICK SINCLAIR accepts a dinner date from Rubella Ballet ...
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 20 March 1982
Mick Sinclair experiences some new PASSIONS ...
Can, Holger Czukay: Holger Czukay: Ode to normailty
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 17 April 1982
Mick Sinclair in spontaneous discussion with HOLGER CZUKAY ...
Bucks Fizz: Are You Ready (RCA RCALP8000)
Review by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 15 May 1982
EARLIER THIS year in a moment of secret passion, Cheryl Fizz bit my earlobe and confided "our next LP will be rockier and heavier". ...
Lora Logic: The blank(et) generation
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 5 June 1982
My temple or yours? MICK SINCLAIR asks LORA LOGIC ...
Laurie Anderson: Looney Spoons and Merrie Melodies
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 26 June 1982
The Super Adventures of Laurie Anderson ...
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 2 October 1982
MICK SINCLAIR goes down on Swans Way ...
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 9 October 1982
FELT boast of their brilliance to MICK SINCLAIR ...
Everything But The Girl, Marine Girls, Tracey Thorn: Tracey Thorn: Ahead of her time
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 23 October 1982
MICK SINCLAIR dials TRACEY THORNE and wonders if she's... ...
Duran Duran: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 13 November 1982
Ghouls on film ...
The Farmer's Boys, Orange Juice: Orange Juice, Farmer's Boys: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 11 December 1982
IN THE sound ruining Lyceum even the normally wondrous Farmer's Boys have trouble. Their chirpy minimal sound gets distorted into a tinny grating which performs ...
The Danse Society, The Fall, Felt: The Fall, Danse Society, Felt: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 18 December 1982
FELT ARE hinged around guitarist and singer (in that order) Lawrence, a lovably naive, hick-ish figure from a village just outside Birmingham. ...
Frank Chickens: First Bites: Frank Chickens
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 12 February 1983
ONE OF the most unusual and likeable entertainments currently intruding upon the gig circuit are Frank Chickens. As the name inscrutably doesn't indicate, they are ...
Marine Girls: Lazy Ways (Cherry Red)
Review by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 26 March 1983
RISKING ACCUSATIONS of unseemly drooling, I'll simply state that I actually feel quite close to the Marine Girls. I don't wish to boast but I ...
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 16 April 1983
Mick Sinclair scrapes Frank Want off the wall ...
Danielle Dax, Lemon Kittens: Danielle Dax: I Yam What I Yam
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 4 June 1983
And that's what I yam says DANIELLE DAX to MICK SINCLAIR ...
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 16 July 1983
MICK SINCLAIR EXAMINES HIS FETISCH FOR XMAL DEUTSCHLAND ...
Killing Joke: Triumph of the Will
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 30 July 1983
Killing Joke get apocalyptic with Mick Sinclair ...
Holger Hiller: The Hillers Alive
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, March 1984
... and Mick Sinclair found him for you ...
Afrika Bambaataa, Force MD's: Tommy Boy and Afrika Bambaataa: Afrika and White
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 17 April 1984
ALONG WITH the equally outstanding 'The Message', 'Planet Rock' sprang hip hop into being something of more force and substance than was made evident by ...
Laurie Anderson, she slipped back in
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, July 1984
THE ARTICULATED LAURIE. OUR SUPERMAN, MICK SINCLAIR, TRACKS DOWN THE ENIGMATIC LAURIE ANDERSON ...
The Flying Lizards: Flying Lizards: The Final Battle Starts Here
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, September 1984
They came from outer town. They claimed to be our friends. But Mick Sinclair kept his hamsters home regardless. ...
Tom Verlaine: Far from the Madding Crowd
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, September 1984
TOM VERLAINE is a tall frame clothed unremarkably. He's basically apolitical, carrying the air of a fine artist who's possibly been born into the wrong ...
Twisted Sister: Knights in White Satin
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, September 1984
Crazed rocker Mick Sinclair arm-wrestles and jives with mean Mutha Dee Snider of Twisted Sister who isn't as dumb as he looks. ...
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, October 1984
Test Dept. Cracked Open. Blow Torch — Mick Sinclair ...
Frank Chickens: Pierced Nippon
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, November 1984
Mickimono Sinclair and the delightful Frank Chickens ...
The Go-Betweens: Fencing Lessons
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, November 1984
AS THEIR man Robert Foster notes: "There are a small group of people who like the Go‑Betweens intensely. I see the band as having good ...
Feargal Sharkey: Fins Ain't What They Used To Be
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, December 1984
Mick Sinclair and Feargal Sharkey compare inside leg measurements ...
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, December 1984
Mick Sinclair tears the Guy Fawkes mask off Mike Peters. The Alarm are all set to Explod. ...
Joan Jett, The Runaways: Joan Jett: Jett Black
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, January 1985
Joan Jett finds Mick Sinclair loves rock'n'roll ...
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, January 1985
Contemporary Note: This interview took place at Virgin Records' London HQ during the height of the year-long miner's strike (led by the National Union of ...
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, March 1985
Enjoying greater success than they have for many a moon KILLING JOKE convince MICK SINCLAIR that they're nice girls really. ...
Strawberry Switchblade: Kick Out The Jams
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, April 1985
MICK SINCLAIR FINDS HIMSLEF IN A JAM WITH JILL AND ROSE OF STRAWBERRY SWITCHBLADE, BOTH VERY WELL PRESERVED (NO PUNNET INTENDED) ...
Propaganda: Doctrine In The House
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, June 1985
MICK SINCLAIR MEETS THE QUIET TYPES WITH THE ABILITY TO EXPLODE ...
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