As he steps back from his weekday BBC Radio 6 Music show, the DJ replays four decades of Transit vans, loud guitars and run-ins with music’s wildest stars
Letter To Self’s finest moment is also its brightest. Single “Literary Mind” is a belter, again led by the driving melodies of bassist Sam McCann. Amid the anger and jangled nerves that permeate much of the music, here Sprints give us four and a half…
After attending the late Pogues wildman’s funeral, Nick Cave has written an obituary for his close friend Shane MacGowan, which opens with him recounting how the singer didn’t “trust” non-drunkards.