Posted on May 30, 2008 by Peter Moore
The Last Grandmaster of the Buena Vista Social Club
Everyone treasures their very own special musical moments and I can locate one of mine quite specifically. It was early April of 1998 and the Buena Vista Social Club had just edged their way, in that pre-gig gloom, upon stage at Le Carré in Amsterdam. With the [...]
Filed under: Music | Tagged: buena, compay, Cuba, eliades, ferrer, ibrahim, Madrid, ochoa, segundo, social, vista | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 27, 2008 by Peter Moore
European Vibe Magazine, November 2007
Supersonic Madrid
Sue Denim is sitting cross-legged, in the back room of Supersonic, one of Madrid’s hip backstreet hangouts, in Argüelles. Her hair is bleached into a thousand different colours and she is wearing a glittering belt that sits on top of a black and gold dress. There is, as I am [...]
Filed under: Music | Tagged: dee, denim, disguise, electronica, has, it, made, Madrid, me, plume, robots, sex, stupid, sue, The, turn, up | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 23, 2008 by Peter Moore
European Vibe Magazine, October 2007
Mercury Music Prize
And the winner is,” blurted out Jools Holland in his awkward, inimitable style. “The Klaxons!” All of a sudden the vast hall of the Grovesnor House Hotel was lit up with lights streaming from all angles as the sound of the band’s successful single Golden Scans filled the room. [...]
Filed under: Music | Tagged: holland, James, jools, Klaxons, Madrid, righton, Spain | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 22, 2008 by Peter Moore
Published in Fat Controller Magazine, 2005
Batman
Man should try everything once, apart from incest and Morris dancing. Well, this is the point of view I was dragged around to, when someone suggested that we go and watch ‘Batman’.
I am not a particularly fierce critic of Batman. In fact I distinctly remember wearing my y-fronts outside [...]
Filed under: Travel | Tagged: Arusha, Batman, Cinema, Hakuna Matata, Tanzania | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 21, 2008 by Peter Moore
Published in Fat Controller Magazine, 2004
On Tuesday 21st October in 2003 with his enraged girlfriend Jennifer Chiba locked out of reach in one of the rooms at his home in Silverlake, Los Angeles, it seems that Elliott Smith decided that enough was enough. In the wake of the last in a series of increasingly [...]
Filed under: Music | Tagged: chiba, elliott, jennifer, misery, miss, smith | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 20, 2008 by Peter Moore
In Madrid, July 2007
If hedonism is an art form then The Lazy Beggers are its high priest. In June of 2007 I sat down on the street for a beer with them.
Occasionally when you stop and think about it, you have to be impressed with the spread of capitalism. City slickers hang out in London [...]
Filed under: Interviews | Tagged: drink, drugs, Lazy beggars, Madrid, Paypal | Leave a Comment »