I would never join a club that would have me for a member, Groucho Marx once said.
The club of rock artists who died at the age of 27 is one group no-one would want to belong to.
Members include Janis Joplin. Robert Johnson. Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain and now, sadly but by no means unexpectedly, Amy Winehouse can be added to the list. Continue reading
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Rumours of the death of Swans have been exaggerated.
I can vouch for this having experienced their ear-bruising concert at Bologna’s Locomotiv club.
The volume alone is loud enough to waken corpses and should lay to rest any notion that Michael Gira has reconvened the band as a cosy nostalgia act. These six guys may no longer be in the full flush of youth but they put any snot-nosed noise bands to shame.
Gira, at the tender age of 56 , has the look of someone rejuvenated, a fact already placed on record by the September release of the stunning new Swans album My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky.
He is clearly not kidding when he says that in performance he seeks to achieve a state of “simultaneous self negation and rebirth”. Continue reading
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