by mojo | Nov 6, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE A Riot Of Their Own In spring ’77, with the Sex Pistols off the road, it fell to The Clash to take punk properly UK-wide. In 2017, 40 years after, MOJO sifted the frolics, fisticuffs and fallout of the White Riot Tour to find: the real reason The Jam got...
by mojo | Nov 5, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Whispers in the silence With The Cure’s 14th album Songs Of A Lost World now finally upon us, MOJO goes back to the very beginning. Out of new town ennui would grow the post-punk era’s most everlasting of groups, but not before hospital gigs, biscuit...
by mojo | Nov 6, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Revenge Of The Nerds Brandishing power-prog anthems and über-preposterous concepts, Rush survived personal tragedy, Nazi slurs and multiple taserings to be crowned the Biggest Cult Band In The World, back in 2012. “Yes! We win!” they told Paul Elliott....
by mojo | Nov 6, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Every Loser Wins No rock’n’roll band failed quite like The Replacements: proudly, spectacularly, hilariously, famously. Their poignant punk made tough guys melt, but behind the scrappy heroics were people drawn by tragedy to self-destruction. “It was a...
by mojo | Nov 6, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE In Xanadu Last month, ELO’s orchestral pop maestro Jeff Lynn announced that the group’s last-ever show will take place at London’s Hyde Park next summer. In 2012, Lynn sat down with MOJO’s Keith Cameron to look back on the full unbelievable journey of...
by mojo | Oct 31, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo The List The Cure’s Greatest Songs Ranked With their latest album Songs Of A Lost World finally upon us, MOJO selects the finest tracks to date from Robert Smith’s post-punk and goth pop dream weavers. Words by MOJO staff FROM PLAYING SONGS OF suburban...
by mojo | Sep 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Mojo FEATURE Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Plays Local Pub! In his first public performance in eight years, Gilmour performed Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here at an open mic night in Hove. MOJO took a front seat… The Neptune Inn on Hove’s Victoria Terrace, is a...
by akindell | Aug 29, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo The List Oasis And The Gallaghers: Every Album Ranked! With the Gallagher brothers now finally reunited, MOJO ranks and rates every Oasis, Liam, Noel and Beady Eye album Words by Andrew Perry/Chris Catchpole “Sometimes being a brother,” American children’s...
by kschwarz | Aug 6, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Q GOLD Matthew Healy come up for air The story so far: The 1975 became one of the world’s biggest bands by stealth, while messianic frontman Matty Healy sank secretly into drug addiction. In 2018 Sylvia Patterson met the quartet in England and Los Angeles to hear how...
by kschwarz | Aug 6, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Q GOLD The Prime Of Miss Annie E. Clark In 2017 we were living through the first flush of what in the future will be known as The Era Of St. Vincent. Niall Doherty stepped out into the cold of the Midwest with Annie Erin Clark to hear how her alter ego redesigned pop...
