Mary Chain’s Ben Lurie looks back: ‘It was mind-blowing!’
SYDNEY | For nearly a decade Ben Lurie was the rhythm guitarist of The Jesus and Mary Chain. He was an integral part of...
JAMC tour manager Simon Smith starred in Top of the Pops
MYTHOLMROYD | ‘Simon was always being very modest about it and never even brought it up’, former bass player Phil King remembers, ‘but William...
Mary Chain’s Michael Brennan: Jim and William are like two parts of the same...
FIFE – SCOTLAND | Front of House sound engineer Michael Brennan (49) has a mindblowing resumé. Before hooking up with The Jesus and Mary...
Ride drummer Loz Colbert: The Mary Chain made me fall in love with noise
OXFORD | Until the age of seventeen, Laurence “Loz” Colbert lived isolated in the forests of the Cotswolds, teaching himself how to play the...
Bass player Mark Crozer: Nothing is permanent in The Jesus and Mary Chain
NEW YORK | Mark Crozer joined Jim Reid and Phil King in 2005, during the hiatus of The Jesus and Mary Chain. He arranged...
Mary Chain’s Phil King: When William gets going, an electrical storm hits you
PORTO | Phil King was the only member of The Jesus and Mary Chain that bridged the gap: He was there, in 1998, when...
Jesus and Mary Chain’s Scott von Ryper: I grew up listening to their music
Ten years ago Scott von Ryper left Australia with friend, fellow musician and ex-wife Aimee Nash. They headed for Los Angeles to reach a...
Original Jesus and Mary Chain drummer: I was an outsider
EAST KILBRIDE | Murray Dalglish was only sixteen when he responded to an advert of the Reid brothers, pinned on the bulletin board of...
The Jesus and Mary Chain takes us back to the darklands
In 1985 The Jesus and Mary Chain, founded by Scottish brothers Jim and William Reid, reached instant fame when launching their debut album Psychocandy....
Punk icons UK Subs turn back time in Amsterdam
As of 1976, the British punk band UK Subs has had around eighty members, recorded more than twenty studio albums and produced countless EPs,...
John Cooper Clarke: Bard of Salford is a sweetheart
Paul McCartney claims he is the best poet of the British Isles. And recently ‘the bard of Salford’ received an honorary doctorate for his...
The Stranglers never forgave Hugh Cornwell
No one expected Hugh Cornwell to ever leave The Stranglers. But he did. A nearly disastrous move, because he was the driving force behind...
