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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

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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Music Reissues Weekly: Congo Funk! - Sound Madness from the Shores of the Mighty Congo River

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Julia Holter, EartH Theatre review - loosening up can take time

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Music Reissues Weekly: Patterns on the Window - The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1974

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Music Reissues Weekly: Status Quo - The Early Years

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Album: Jane Weaver - Love In Constant Spectacle

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Vossa Jazz 2024 review - Norwegian festival embraces William Parker’s spaciness, Karin Krog’s classicism and much more

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Music Reissues Weekly: Niney The Observer Presents Lightning and Thunder!

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Album: High Llamas - Hey Panda

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Mystic Tide - Frustration

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Music Reissues Weekly: Groove Machine - The Earl Young Drum Sessions

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Kerry Godliman is livid, she tells us. Spider webs catching in her hair, the state of the world, her teenage children; you name it,...

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Jansen, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - profound and bracing...

Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra last seared us in Britten’s amazing Violin Concerto, with Vilde Frang as soloist, on the very...

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Between bouts of that far from shabby, still shocking masterpiece Tosca, Royal Opera music director Jakub Hrůša ...

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Why are the Irish such good storytellers? The historical perspective is that the oral tradition goes way, way back, allied to the gift of the gab...

Hadelich, BBC Philharmonic, Storgårds, Bridgewater Hall, Man...

Concerts need to have themes, it seems, today, and the BBC Philharmonic’s publicity suggested two contrasting ideas for the opening of its 2025-26...