ALBUM REVIEW: KIM GORDON – PLAY ME

From a muddy moshpit at Reading 1991 to a head nodding beat driven gig at Gorilla a few years ago, it’s fair to say that Kim Gordon’s music has been a consistent presence on my eardrums for the last few decades. Her debut solo album ‘No Home Record’ released in 2019, set the tone in […]
Having sustained my first ever moshpit injury at a Sonic Youth gig in the early 90’s at The Reading Festival, involving someone else’s Doc Marten boot, squelchy mud and my head, to seeing their last ever gig in Manchester, it’s fair to say Kim Gordon’s former band, Sonic Youth, have occupied a large portion of […]

ALBUM REVIEW: KIM GORDON – NO HOME RECORD

REVIEW: KIM GORDON IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVE HASLAM – 18/03/2015

– MARTIN HARRIS CENTRE, MANCHESTER – Go online, check out any Sonic Youth video from the 1990s with Kim Gordon in it and observe her. Any reasonable woman who was a teenager in the 1990s would want to be Kim Gordon. Everything about her was cool: cool band, cool music. We thought she did not […]