“Alcoholism is a self-inflicted leisure injury. . . I refuse to portray myself as this helpless victim. I sound like some anxiety-ridden heroine in an Oscar Wilde play but I couldn’t deal with life.”

Claire Biddles returns to Elastica's debut album and finds it short and perfectly formed; even with some extra tracks thrown in.

A gentle mist curled around the gravestones as I struggled to find my way out. It was 2021, and I was wandering along the seemingly endless stone wall which separates Cimetière du Père-Lachaise from t...

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Action Beat are supported by Vision Suppressant's expanded cinema at New River Studio event by Fortissimo Records

Dom My name is Alex and although in the early days I was someone who just re… Judge Dewie needs your support for Dom Lawson Medical Shenanigans

This month we’re talking about one of the greatest albums ever made – and not just in our opinion either. Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love was both a critical and commercial hit on release in 1985, and its ...

Beneath the church of Saint-Aignan is a crypt, once an ancient promontory. Stumbling upon it while wandering on the first of my five days in this small and pretty town in the Loire valley, I’m drawn b...

Elastica have suggested that there is to be some future activity in a cryptic post on their Instagram today, 31 July. Underneath an old photograph of the band they wrote “Missed us? We’ve been busy be...

Warren Hatter revels in the reissue of a 'perfectly formed' LP of dystopian French electronica, which, 50 years on, deserves recognition.