Much garlanded and Salford-raised film-maker Mike Leigh, now 78, is speaking to Northern Soul at HOME in Manchester on the occasion of a new touring retrospective of his work. “What I do, and have done over the years, it’s...
Read MoreWhen The The’s singer/songwriter/prime mover Matt Johnson became the focus of a documentary, The Inertia Variations, back in 2017, it had an unexpected impact on him. As the title suggests, he hadn’t been too productive in the...
Read MoreThere’s no denying that there’s an air of anticipation around this, on more than one level. Paul Morley has been gradually working towards writing a biography of Factory Records supremo Tony Wilson since Wilson...
Read More“Who’s the best, Vic or Bob?” It’s a pub debate that’s raged since the early 90s, but it misses the point entirely. The correct answer, of course, is that they’re both great. When a celebratory Reeves...
Read MoreWe seem to be living at the tail end of a golden age for the music documentary. For a while there you couldn’t move for the blighters, some of which were genuinely impressive. But now that BBC Four no longer has the budget...
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