With a background in both song and dance Char has performed in one capacity or another from a very young age. Her first venture into a recording studio came courtesy of Tones On Tail’s Glenn […]
Author: Andrew J Brooksbank
Official Bauhaus (Band) Historian
Torched Review – Love And Rockets ‘The Albums 1985-1996’
Now specialising solely in the reissuing of their vast and highly impressive back catalogue across a variety of formats and packaging Beggars Arkive have served up a lavish dessert with Love and Rockets The Albums […]
Torched Review – Night Crickets – A Free Society By Andrew J Brooksbank
NIGHT CRICKETS – A FREE SOCIETY An unusual alliance brings together a San Francisco born and current Northern California based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, a drummer from a hugely influential Wisconsin based folk/punk fusion (Violent Femmes) […]
Bauhaus Bau-Out, London Review By Andrew J. Brooksbank
BAUHAUS BAU-OUT BRIXTON ACADEMY FRIDAY 19TH AUGUST 2022 Unlike many of their contemporaries Bauhaus never chose to join any retro circuit, unquestionable integrity, playing their own game and by their own rules. Like any truly […]
Reissue Of Tones On Tail’s Album ‘POP’ Reviewed By Andrew J Brooksbank
TONES ON TAIL – ‘POP’ – (US RSD AUGUST 2020) Rewrapped in a shimmering fresh palette and with the original track listing fully restored, ‘Pop’ makes a welcome return to American turntables for August’s […]
Bauhaus Historian Andrew J Brooksbank Reviews David J / Pat Fish Live At The Manchester Academy
REGULAR, ENGLISH SPEAKING GENTLEMEN… DAVID J / PAT FISH (THE JAZZ BUTCHER) MANCHESTER ACADEMY 3 24 OCTOBER 2019 Pat Fish is the last of the great British Troubadours, the epitome of ‘Have Guitar, Will […]
Andrew J Brooksbank Reviews Darwin’s New Album Release ‘So Few Comets’
DARWIN – SO FEW COMETS Every once in a while something extraordinary land’s in your lap, in more recent times two sonic miracles have landed in mine, the first was an LP called Starfishing […]
Bauhaus Historian Andrew J Brooksbank Reviews David J’s Upcoming Release ‘Missive To An Angel From The Halls Of Infamy And Allure’
MISSIVE TO AN ANGEL FROM THE HALLS OF INFAMY AND ALLURE DAVID J David has recently explained that this album is principally a complex, confessional love letter to his wife, describing in song (and […]
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