Welcome to the Pennyblackmusic blogspot, which we will be using to keep you informed between our twice monthly up-dates (a big up-date at the start of the month for interviews, features, live reviews, album and single reviews and a smaller up-date towards the middle of the month just for album and single reviews) of what is happening at Pennyblackmusic.
I have just received in tonight from Anthony Strutt an interview with former Creation label boss Alan McGee. As well as Creation, he talks about his bands the Laughing Apple and Biff Bang Pow. Always something of a fiery figure, McGee seems to have lost none of his anger or energy and comes across and curiously unsentimental or nostalgic about the past. We will be publishing that interview in our big up-date at the beginning of March.
I also interviewed on Friday night Richard Knox and Elly May Irving from the Leeds post rock group Glissando, who were in my home city of Edinburgh for the second last date of a British tour. A former couple, and two genuinely warm and lovely people, they talked about their outstanding debut album, 'With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea' which, released on Richard's own Gizeh Records label, they recorded very quickly after splitting up, and the DIY ethic which drives all their work. That interview too will be appearing in the March edition.
