Take a relatively obscure 80s pop track, re-work it by one of the UK’s most successful bands and release it on a highly-respected German label
by NEALE LYTOLLIS
- if you thought that recipe for success was a just little too ambitious to be true then think again because no less than Pet Shop Boys have just [...]

“Anne Clark is playing here tonight - and you’re not Anne Clark”!
Being refused entry to a show you’re actually headlining must be an embarrassing experience and one of the many music biz divas would no doubt throw a massive J Lo-style strop yet Anne Clark takes this kind of non-recognition in her stride. If you [...]

SURPRISE OF THE YEAR? QUITE POSSIBLY.

By Neale Lytollis
I am often asked by German friends what it was like living in the UK during the heady days of Britpop when the UK was the coolest place in the world again; a buzzing hotbed of mid-90s creativity affecting literature, fashion and art but whose main outlet was [...]

OK…
…sorry, but you know when you start a sentence with “OK” it means you’re about to say something bizarre of offensive like, “OK, you know you’re my best friend but you have really bad breath,” or “OK, I do like screwing you but next time could you maybe do something more than just lie there [...]

Let’s just get one thing clear right now. Record reviews are a waste of time and I would never set much store by what a reviewer has to say about an album. For one thing they are either getting blow jobs from the promo people which results in them writing a glowing review of tosh [...]

OK, OK, so the EYHO Blog is certainly not the first site on the Net to report this news but nevertheless the demise of one of Sheffield’s finest exports, The Long Blondes, deserves a brief but heartfelt obituary.
News of the band’s split first reached my ears via Tuesday’s NME newsletter (yeah, sorry folks, I have [...]

THE ACCELERATED CULTURE OF BROKEN BRITAIN

The term “The Soundtrack of your life” might sound a little clichéd but its relevance shouldn’t be underestimated. A tight, perceptive LP can not only predict shifting musical fashions but can also be an astute commentary of the times.

Blondie’s new wave masterpiece Parallel Lines was a classic of the genre, [...]

IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT IN HERE (BERLIN), YOU CAN MAKE IT EVERYWHERE
“Oh man, Crystal Castles played a fucking insane show at Maria last night!” A friend of mine, literally hopping up and down with excitement, more or less screamed this in my face recently. In fact, had he been any more switched on I [...]

Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001) is a name virtually unheard of in Germany yet in the UK she remains one of the true pioneers of electronic music.
Derbyshire was born in Coventry and studied mathematics and music at Cambridge. This curious combination no doubt influenced her work as an innovator in the field of bringing logical, scientific approaches [...]

autoKratz: “I don’t feel we’re a typical British band at all.”

“Neither of us is typical in our approach to the world.”
Untypical is definitely one adjective that can be used to describe autoKratz.
Even David’s first encounter with bandmate Russell was far from conventional: “Some pissed up wanker puked on my shoes outside a club. I was [...]

“I think it brings a lot of creative potential for the music industry, not just for the club. It has already proved its potential in museums and in cinemas and this is an experiment in a club. It’s new technology but I think it’s a start and I am happy that it takes place at [...]