“You’re the Kind Of Guy” By Hella Cholla
The male and the female? A harmonious blend of the ying and the yang, or polar opposites, from different planets, diametrically opposed in every way? Or is it all a myth in order to sell books about woman being from Venus and men being obsessed with Uranus? [...]
May 3, 2008
Categories: Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Music, Music Sites, Pop, Pop Music . Tags: Hannah Yadi, Hella Cholla, I-tunes, Indie, Leeds, Pop, Singers, Will Betts, You're The Kind Of Guy . Author: vonpip . Comments: 1 Comment
Righty Oh, its review time, and again, we have tempted some fine musicians into the murky world of The VPME. The glitterati of popular music agreed to take time out from partying hard with celeb types like Jane McDonald and Colleen Nolan and meet up at Von Pip Towers. Sadly we were [...]
April 19, 2008
Categories: Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Music, Music Review, Music Sites, Pop, Pop Music, The Pipettes . Tags: Laura Marling, Screaming Ballerinas, Mystery jets, Nick Cave, The Last Shadow Puppets, Alex Turner, Arctic Monkeys, The Long Blondes, The Lieutenants Mistress, Slow Down Tallahassee, Dogwood, Von Pip, Alastair Dougall, Rose Dougall, Joe Lean, And What Will Be Left Of Them . Author: vonpip . Comments: 9 Comments
The Fabulous, gorgeous VOTE SHOW PONY Interviewed By Andy Von Pip April 2008
April 17, 2008
Categories: Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Music, Music Review, Music Sites, Pop, Pop Music . Tags: Beautiful, Sorcha Hawkins, Vote Showpony . Author: vonpip . Comments: 5 Comments
“Faces Going Places” By Jose Vanders
Londoners are famous for having a good old knees up around the “old Joanna” (piano) with their “china plates” (mates). In fact if you were to believe the portrayal of Londoners as painted by “comedic” screenwriter Richard Curtis you’d probably expect to walk into a London pub and be [...]
March 25, 2008
Categories: Eddie Harrison, Indie, Indie Music, Jose Vanders, Kate Bush, Kate Nash, Music, Music Review, Music Sites, Transactional Language . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 6 Comments
“Mr Understanding” By Pete And The Pirates
Well, well, well, Radio 1’s head of music -George Ergatoudis has rather belatedly declared he wishes “to f***ng stop “pop” being a “dirty mutha f***ing word”. Hmmmm?.. not the most original statement is it? What’s that you hear? Ah yes it’s another bandwagon Radio 1 [...]
March 2, 2008
Categories: Cheryl Cole, Cheryl Tweedy, Girls Aloud, Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Johnny Depp, Music, Pete And The Pirates . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 11 Comments
“Your Easy Life” By Alexis Blue
Local bands eh? Sometimes you can be badly scarred by the local music scene, especially on Merseyside where you’re often confronted with dire Beatles tribute bands, or horrible Merseybeat karaoke discos. This is where drunken old fools threaten to glass you for not wistfully singing-a-long, with tear stained cheeks, to [...]
February 27, 2008
Categories: Alexis Blue, Alternative, Bright Eyes, Half man Half Biscuit, Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Kate Nash, Lily Allen, Liverpool, Music, Nigel Blackwell, Pop, Pop Music, Scouse, VPME, Wallasey, Wirral . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 10 Comments
“Automatic” By Dead Disco
Art students eh, can you trust ‘em to do their studies or do they just muck about eating lentils whilst daubing skulls and crossbones on Rubik’s cubes and super gluing them together to represent “The Futility Of Toil And The Certainty Of Death.?” Or maybe they pass their days putting lambs [...]
February 17, 2008
Categories: Dead Disco, Electro Pop, Fierce Panda, Girl-Groups, Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Lucy Catherwood, Marie France, Music, Pop, Pop Music, Victoria Hesketh . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 7 Comments
Lush’s Miki Berenyi “The Interview 2008″ and her personal photo album Part 3( Part 1 is here ,and part 2 here )
Miki Interview 1996
Photo 33
Miki: “Me with Ian Astbury (The Cult) after our gig at the Electric Ballroom in 1996. Chris was an absolutely MASSIVE fan of The Cult (well, back to [...]
February 1, 2008
Categories: Brit Pop, Chris Acland, Cocteau Twins, Emma Anderson, Eric Matthews, Ian Astbury, Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Ivor Sims, Jesus And Mary Chain, Lollapolooza 1992, Lovelife, Miki Berenyi, Miki Berenyi Wallpapers, Music Review, Music Sites, Pop, Pop Music, Robin Guthrie, Shoe-gaze, Shoegaze, Sienking Ships, Sub Pop, The Cult, Von Pip, We Miss Miki . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 15 Comments
Miki has very kindly agreed to share her own photos from her time in Lush. So,without further ado or my customary waffling, I give you…
“A Pictorial History Of Lush-Much Loved, Much Missed”
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Miki : “These first three are from 1989…1 and 2 are our first ‘proper’ promotional photos which were done by [...]
January 27, 2008
Categories: 4AD records, Chris Acland, Cocteau Twins, Emma Anderson, Female artists, Indie, Indie Music, Indie Pop, Jesus And Mary Chain, Lollapolooza 1992, Lovelife, Lush, Miki Berenyi, Pearl Jam, Phil King, Seinking Ships, Shoe-gaze, Shoegaze, Sing-Sing, Steve Rippon, The Pale Saints . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 26 Comments
“Heavenly Nobodies” By Lush
“If you want heroes keep them safe.
They don’t stand up to life.
So lock them in your soul and lose the key.”
-Miki Berenyi
Certain bands or songs will forever be intertwined with particular events or certain times in people’s lives. Lush are one such band, whom, in my case, will always have a [...]
January 25, 2008
Categories: 4AD, Chris Acland, Christopher Sienk, Emma Anderson, Eric Matthews, Indie, Kiss Chase, Lovelife, Lush, Miki Berenyi, Miki Berenyi Wallpapers, Museum Quality Capture, Phil King, Robin Guthrie, Shoegaze, Sienking Ships, Split, Spooky, The Imagination Stage, The Jesus And Mary Chain, We Miss Miki . . Author: vonpip . Comments: 42 Comments