Fighting overseas, reigning World Boxing Organization bantamweight king John Riel Casimero was the toast of local sports for the month of August, with promising unbeaten featherweight Mark ‘Magnifico’ Magsayo not too far behind.
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Royal Blood reborn: “It was obvious I would lose everything”
With Number One albums and huge arena shows to their name, Royal Blood stood at the top of the rock world. Behind the scenes, though, Mike Kerr was falling apart. He and bandmate Ben Thatcher talk pulling back from the brink, the power of friendship, and reinvention of the self and sound on new album Typhoons…
Words: Ian Winwood
Photos: Gobinder Jhitta
On July 23, 2019, at the Schlachthof club in Hesse, Germany, for the very first time Mike Kerr stepped onto a stage as an abstinent man. The decision to quit drinking, and to forego drugs, had been taken during a break in the recording of Royal Blood’s third album, Typhoons. After boarding a flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, in a bar in Sin City the singer, bassist and keyboardist with one the century’s great British breakout bands arrived at the decision that it was time to stop bending the elbow.
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Albums of the Year 2020: Melt Yourself Down - 100% Yes | reviews, news & interviews Albums of the Year 2020: Melt Yourself Down - 100% Yes
Albums of the Year 2020: Melt Yourself Down - 100% Yes
The music that kept spirits raised during the year of you-know-what
All a bit of a blur
I’ll leave it to others, better placed, to unpack 2020’s gruelling impact on so many. But one of its side effects was the elevation, alongside food and television, of recorded music. It became a salve, a focus, a locus of social media blather about what was getting us through. Lockdown ears were lifted by a heady gumbo of new discoveries and old favourites. Certainly, my best-of-year lists are overfull.