In early 2014 I received an email from someone named Simon Fletcher who--in connection with former Creation Records mogul Alan McGee--was...

Photo by Barbara Marciniak. In the early days of my relationship with Jodi, who I would later marry, we were so caught up in each other...

In the couple of years prior to my adventures with The Jesus and Mary Chain, I’d set myself up as booking agent and promoter. This came...

It’s been a while since I last owned a car. Living in New York City, with its affordable and far-reaching--albeit rather creaky--subway...

In 2008 I went to Australia for the first time with the Mary Chain. We played in Sydney, Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne. After our second...

Mark Crozer and The Rels first came together in early 2012. The band has been through a few line-up changes over the years but is now a...

1985 was a big year for me. I played my debut gig at the Pegasus Theatre in Oxford with my first real band, Insane logic. It was the...

The Mary Chain was booked to play a show in Rome last week. I was excited to see the city for the first time. I’d visited the north of...

The first Mary Chain performance of 2018 was to be on a late night chat show in Moscow-the Russian equivalent of The Late Show with...

In 2003 I returned to Oxford after ten years in Canada and began working in a call centre. I was tasked with phoning up old ladies to...

The journey to Bristol is painfully slow but we pull up at the venue at 7pm with an hour to spare until showtime. It’s a remarkable...

It’s summer 2006 and I’m about to set off on tour with a Canadian band named Controller.Controller. They’re a five piece from Ontario and...

It’s exactly one week since the blowout on the road to Prague which resulted in my car being towed off into the hinterland never to be...

The path takes us on a long, uphill journey to a sleepy commuter town where we discover that every shop, cafe and restaurant is closed...

It’s the middle of June, 2005. I’m currently playing bass on tour with Ox, an indie band from Sudbury, Ontario. We’ve played twenty-five...

January, 2007 I’m in London to play a solo acoustic set at a pub not far from Notting Hill Gate. It’s a damp, chilly night and the...

In 2002 I was living in Montreal, Canada trying to earn a crust from music and my main source of income was busking in the Metro, the...