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BECK: ‘DON’T CALL ME QUIRKY’

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Ever wary of hype, Ben Harrison was initially not taken in by Beck's Loser when BigO editors enthusiastically played the single to him, hot off the presses. Ben then groaned unappreciatively when he was namechecked and compared to Beck in a BigO review of the latter's debut album, Mellow Gold. ...

FLAMING LIPS: HOPE FLAMES ETERNAL

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

The Flaming Lips were always hot stuff. BigO's astroboy Ben Harrison reckons he probably first read about them in the '80s via an old photocopied issue of BigO (our pre-internet incarnation). And then, over a decade later, they hit a new level of success with the release of their brilliant ...

VELVET GOLDMINE: MOE TUCKER IN HER OWN WORDS

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Moe Tucker, drummer with the legendary Velvet Underground, has her own small label - one of her releases is Grl-Grup, a cover of Phil Spector songs; another release is a cover of the Velvets’ I’m Sticking With You and After Hours. Here, she takes time off to answer a list ...

BLUR: IT’S A MATTER OF GETTING THE RIGHT FOCUS

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Blur - one of the most important British bands of the decade - wrap up their 1997 world tour and Ben Harrison finds himself being welcomed into their insular world. Together with a lot of alcohol he makes a Great Escape with guitarist Graham Coxon, lives to tell the tale ...