Neil Mason
Neil Mason cut his teeth as a sub editor on dance magazine Muzik before joining Melody Maker as Albums Editor, becoming Reviews Editor during the death-rattle period. In October 1999 he wrote the title’s very last inkie cover and joined NME.COM the following year as the site's first Features Editor. In 2003 he joined War Child as Editor of the pre-iTunes music download site warchildmusic.com. Neil founded and edits Electronic Sound magazine.
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Report by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 5 July 1997
So, you are back home again, tucked up in bed, bad dose of the snivels. Your shoes are f***ed, your bones a bit soggy. Well, ...
Ben Folds Five: The Wax Inspectors!
Report by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 20 July 1997
Jeez, the things you find out when you take an American band — BEN FOLDS FIVE — to a London tourist attraction — Madame Tussaud's ...
Meredith Brooks: Claws-out Bitchin' Pop
Profile and Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 9 August 1997
MEREDITH BROOKS talks a lot. She lives in LA. She doesn't do sugar, cigarettes, alcohol or drugs. ...
All Saints: Post Spice Hip-Hop
Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 23 August 1997
THERE ARE certain things in life you can be sure of. Rain on Bank Holidays, never having enough money, Alan Shearer getting injured when it ...
Coldcut: Heat to the Beat: Coldcut at 333, London
Live Review by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 6 September 1997
"HOW COLD can Coldcut get?" When sweat is dripping off your nose, your T-shirt has stuck and the most strenuous thing you've done is light ...
Report and Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 4 October 1997
As UK techno's second wave engulfs America, we join 806 STATE, SYSTEM 7, BT, GROOVERIDER and our hosts LOOP GURU on the Big Top Tour, ...
Louise: Young, Gifted and Back!
Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 11 October 1997
Yep, she's here again. When we asked who was the lass with the most class, LOUISE shot to the top of our sex poll. Now ...
Lo Fidelity Allstars: Lo-Fidelity Allstars: Allstars In Your Eyes
Report and Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 18 October 1997
LO-FIDELITY ALLSTARS are gonna be massive. Who says? They do. And we agree. We join them on the UK tour everyone will claim to have ...
Review by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 24 October 1997
AFTER 20 years, nine labels, 22 line-ups and one ballet, the Fall hit us with Levitate, their 30th album. Yup, that's 30 albums. Nevertheless, with ...
Live Review by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 8 November 1997
HOW IS IT that this cherub before us can be Tricky's uncle? ...
Review by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 29 November 1997
OK, they're pretty, cool and main players in the New Pop Explosion but do they have any songs? ...
Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 10 January 1998
Idlewild, Edinburgh's best kept secret, will floor you with their brain rushing brand of noise pollution ...
Catatonia: New Adventures In Sci-Fi
Profile and Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 24 January 1998
CATATONIA's last single was about "mobs" — no it's sci-fi doodlings! We hotfoot it to Wales and ask them what the hell's going on ...
Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 14 February 1998
Voted Best New Band in The Maker's Readers' Poll, Stereophonics are set to seriously f*** up 1998. We join them in Berlin and hear how ...
Dust Junkys: Done & Dusted (Polydor) **½
Review by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 7 March 1998
ENTER PLANET DUST ...
Propellerheads: Metropolitan University, Leeds
Live Review by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 2 May 1998
'HEADS THEY LOSE? ...
The Beta Band: International Student House, London
Live Review by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 23 May 1998
THEY'RE THE ONE FOR US ...
Elliott Smith: Interview Transcript
Interview by Neil Mason, unpublished, June 1998
I'D BEEN TO SEE Elliott Smith's first UK show a week earlier, can't recall where, but it was clearly enough to get me back a ...
Elliott Smith: Acoustic Splendour
Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 27 June 1998
CATEGORIES and pigeonholes and genres. They sure make our job easier. Everyone fits neatly in somewhere. Elliott Smith isn't too sure. ...
Report and Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 25 July 1998
Take an explosive mix of the Primals, The Verve and Billy Smart and, voila!, THE BETA BAND: proof that UK music is fighting fit and up ...
theaudience: theaudience (Mercury/eLLeFFe)
Review by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 15 August 1998
THEAUDIENCE have sure ruffled some feathers in the short time they've been around. They could have slipped under the wire unnoticed; instead, they've added an ...
Profile and Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 17 October 1998
THROUGH THE idle pre-gig chit-chat, four lads wend their way from the rear of the venue towards the stage. As the singer politely picks his ...
Robbie Williams: Robbie Fowl!: Robbie Williams: I've Been Expecting You (Chrysalis) **
Review by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 31 October 1998
SINCE Life Thru A Lens appeared last September, a lot has happened to fat Bob. Mind you, a lot happened to him before Life Thru ...
Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 28 November 1998
Did you know Tim's nickname at the scouts was "Timmy Testicle" or that Charlotte guzzles Vodka? We make each member of Ash leave the room ...
Massive Attack: London Arena, London
Live Review by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 19 December 1998
THE VICTORIOUS BIG ...
Stereophonics, Tom Jones: Tom Jones and the Stereophonics
Profile and Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 1 March 1999
LOOKING OUT across the affluent Silverlake area of Los Angeles stretching out below us, this is not your usual house. Perched high on a hilltop, ...
3 Colours Red: Evel Superstars!
Report and Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 8 May 1999
3 COLOURS RED are drinking, throwing up and rocking the hell out of the USA. And they've met Evel Knievel! But make no mistake, they're ...
Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 8 May 1999
MOST PEOPLE would have a raft of tunes. Andy Cato and Tom Findlay go one better. They're ain't called Groove Armada for nothing, you know. ...
Cast: Magic Hour (Polydor) ***
Review by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 15 May 1999
CAST, BLESS them, have always been pissing in the wind. Why does it seem to go Pete Tong for our Eighties heroes? Well, here's one ...
Report and Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 23 October 1999
IT'S A SPARKLY autumnal London morning. In a back road off Oxford Street, a band are huddled in a radio production company recording an interview ...
Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 24 November 1999
Skate-punkers BLINK 182 come clean on snot, boobies and why they're not the bad boys of rock ...
Oasis: Noel Gallagher: Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants track by track
Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, January 2000
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John Lydon, The Sex Pistols: Johnny Rotten on the Sex Pistols' 20 Wildest Moments
Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, June 2000
With The Filth & The Fury coming your way, John Lydon AKA Johnny Rotten, recalls how the Sex Pistols became the most exciting band ever ...
John Lydon: Psychobabble: John Lydon
Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, June 2000
NOTE: When the Filth and the Fury film was released in 2000, Lydon agreed to do three press interviews, of which Melody Maker, for some ...
Dope Smugglaz Allstars: Toke Implosion: Dope Smugglaz Allstars
Report and Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 6 September 2000
THERE ARE some moments in life when you have to take a good look around. Some moments that hurt when you pinch yourself because, in ...
The Human League: The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
Retrospective and Interview by Neil Mason, electronic, July 2012
Studios with leaking roofs, trips to new romantic clubs in a little Hillman Imp, and a heavy metal single recorded between sessions. They're all part ...
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