sarah cracknell
Feature: Top 20 albums of the year – Backseat Mafia staff pick
How do you judge what were the best albums of the year? Well, here at Backseat Mafia its a collaborative affair, where everyone that writes for us has as much of a say as everyone else (how did I let that happen?). Happily, in line with the widely and wildly varied nature of our ethos …
Live Review: St Etienne play Foxbase Alpha, Hebden Bridge Trades Club
They say if you can remember the sixties you weren’t there and the same is true for the rave generation of the nineties. Once they’d got back home from a banging rave in a field the chilled tones of St Etienne’s Foxbase Alpha always helped them return from whichever dimension they’d visited and here are …
Album Review: Sarah Cracknell – Red Kite
In 1993 I had the pleasure of meeting Sarah Cracknell at a signing at an HMV store. It was Sheffield sound city and the Saint Etienne were doing the signing ahead of their set. I took along my copies of ‘Foxbase Alpha’ and ‘So Tough’. I had never really met any singers or bands before …
Meet: An interview with Saint Etienne
“Sorry if i kept you waiting, I was mucking around with a Vocoder and lost track of time” To be honest, my conversation with Pete Wiggs doesn’t get any less scattershot as it goes on. If he were given the task of telling his life story on the pages of a novel, he’d probably count as …