Will Self
The brilliant novelist, short-story writer and broadcaster has also written a number of scabrous, insightful music pieces in the course of the last decade, mostly for THE OBSERVER.
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Morrissey: The King of Bedsit Angst Grows Up
Profile by Will Self, The Observer, 1995
Heaven knows he was miserable then. Morrissey was the archetypal mixed-up young man: anti-fun, seemingly tortured by his sexuality, with a detached and ironic worldview. ...
Oasis: live at Earls Court, London (27th September 1997)
Live Review by Will Self, Independent on Sunday, October 1997
IT WAS an emotional night for me – as it was for so many others. The minute that Liam Gallagher reached the centre of the ...
Marianne Faithfull: An Interview
Interview by Will Self, Independent on Sunday, 1999
THERE'S NOTHING much crasser in life than being told by someone, shortly after you've met them: "You really remind me of so-and-so..." It's bad enough ...
Alabama 3: London's Scariest Band: Alabama 3
Report and Interview by Will Self, The Observer, November 2002
IF YOU LIKE seriously deranged, outrageously danceable and indisputably subversive music, then clear your diary for December 1st when the Alabama 3 play the Astoria. ...
Warren Zevon: Genius: The Best of Warren Zevon
Sleeve notes by Will Self, Rhino Records, Fall 2002
WHAT I DO is this; I leave the city and go about 50 miles away to a town in the county of Wiltshire called Swindon. ...
Radiohead: All Hail Yorkie Boy: Radiohead
Profile and Interview by Will Self, GQ, July 2003
IN THE MEDIEVAL trench that’s Turl Street in Oxford, Thom Yorke, the city’s most famously and aggressively diffident son, rocks back and forth in his ...
Massive Attack: The Return of Massive Attack
Profile and Interview by Will Self, The Sunday Times, 24 January 2010
SOMEWHERE BACK in the early 1990s, when Britain was dull in a different way, I first heard Massive Attack's Blue Lines. Then in my early ...
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