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Kieron Tyler

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Kieron Tyler has contributed to Britain's MOJO magazine since 1999 and is the author of 'Smashing It Up: A Decade Of Chaos With The Damned', the critically-acclaimed and definitive biography of the first decade of the pioneering British punk rock band. His writing has also appeared in Billboard (America), The Guardian, i (the newspaper), The Independent, Les Inrockuptibles (France), Music Week, Q, Rumba (Finland) and Ugly Things (America).

Articles By Kieron Tyler

Rain Parade, 229 review - the Paisley Underground perennials prove unafraid of their past

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Music Reissues Weekly: Margo Guryan - Words and Music

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Album: John Grant - The Art of the Lie

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Music Reissues Weekly: Moving Away from the Pulsebeat - Post-Punk Britain 1977-1981

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Beatles - Stowe School 1963

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Album: Marina Allen - Eight Pointed Star

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Music Reissues Weekly: Jon Savage's The Secret Public - How The LGBTQ+ Aesthetic Shaped Pop Culture

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Album: Samana - Samana

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Music Reissues Weekly: Andwella - To Dream

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Conchúr White, St Pancras Old Church review - side-stepping the past to embrace the future

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Music Reissues Weekly: Little Girls - Valley Songs

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Music Reissues Weekly: West Coast Consortium - All The Love In The World

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Album: The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know

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Music Reissues Weekly: Warsaw - Middlesbrough 14th September 1977, Joy Division - Manchester 28th September 1979

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Music Reissues Weekly: Linda Smith - I So Liked Spring, Nothing Else Matters

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Album: Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson and Charles Hazlewood - Death Songbook

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The red, white and blue bull’s-eye on the front curtain at Sadler’s Wells tells us we are in the familiar territory of Pete Townshend’s...

Fidelio, Garsington Opera review - a battle of sunshine and...

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Summer Laugh review - five comics gear up for the Fringe

Appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe has long been an expensive gig for comics. But while stand-ups may need only a microphone to ply...

Album: Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise

The first five-and-a-half minutes of Sunwise’s opening track “Dùsgadh / Waking" are taken up by a drone. Played on the Scottish small...

Music Reissues Weekly: Rupert’s People - Dream In My Mind

Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was an instant phenomenon. Recorded in April 1967 and issued as a single on 12 May after pre-release play...

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Andreas Dresen directs socially engaged realist films that invariably relay personal and political messages; the result can be tough but is...

Hercules, Theatre Royal Drury Lane review - new Disney stage...

Many years ago, reviewing pantomime for the first time, I recall looking around in the stalls. My brain was saying, “This is...