Category: Editorials
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How Hamburg’s Grit Forged Liverpool’s Greatest Export: The Unlikely Birth of The Beatles
Let’s get one thing straight: Liverpool didn’t just create the Beatles. It took a crumbling, neon-soaked red-light district in Hamburg, a city still scarred by Allied bombs, to hammer them into shape. The story of four scruffy kids from Liverpool becoming the defining cultural force of the 20th century isn’t just a tale of talent.…
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Wake Up, Sleepyhead: Sounds From Nowhere is Back
A Note from the Editorial desk of Sounds From Nowhere. It hasn’t been that long since the apocalypse was prioritized, with the pandemic unfortunately taking away lives, livelihoods, and live music. Sounds From Nowhere, much like other publications, went on a hiatus in-order to focus on other tangible things, and our team went off into…
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Strangeways Here We Come – The Day The Music Died
On the 30th anniversary of The Smiths‘ swan-song has Strangeways Here We Come, Del Pike delves into the album and the day the music died. As the final Smiths album, Strangeways Here We Come enters its 30th year, it’s as good a time as any to reflect on why no matter how much praise the…
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Liverpool V London: The Beatles Disastrous Aldershot Concert
284 miles south of Liverpool is the Hampshire town of Aldershot (pop. 36,000). As the “Home of the British Army” Aldershot has seen its fair share of historic events. Royal visits and military tattoos are regularly augmented with anniversaries of battles and various other reasons to have military bands marching through the town. However, the…
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The Fluctuating Legacy of Sgt. Pepper’s
The 50th anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band has now passed, the fanfare has died down and the box sets are already dropping in price on Amazon. In fact, the anniversary received rather less fanfare than I had been expecting and this is probably because, while the album is still rightly regarded as one…
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The Return of The KLF: Pretentious or Conscientious?
The return of the avant-garde pop icons The KLF is a massive story over the last few months since posters began popping up in London earlier in 2017. Now with confirmation of the reunion of the Ancients of Mu Mu with their three-day event, we must beg the question of if their return is worthwhile…
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Karaoke Coldplay: When Are Backing Tracks OK?
Following the controversy surrounding Ed Sheeran‘s use of loop pedals at Glastonbury this year, SFN‘s Simon Harper took a look at when it’s okay to use backing tracks. Ed Sheeran’s performance at Glastonbury this year once again prompted discussion over the use of backing tracks during supposedly live performances. In fact, Sheeran’s performance was entirely live…
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When McCartney Killed The Beatles
47 years ago today, Paul McCartney finally and preemptively ended The Beatles with his debut solo album McCartney. However late to the solo attempt party Paul McCartney was, his debut solo album quite naturally killed The Beatles far earlier than the others would’ve thought. On April 17th 1970, Paul McCartney finally released his debut solo…
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God’s Thunder: The Great Bonzo
For the anniversary of the passing of Led Zeppelin‘s great drummer John Bonham, SFN‘s resident drummer and head staff photographer James Aisworth explains why he loves Bonzo so much. John Henry Bonham, born and raised in Redditch, Worcestershire, drummer for angelic Led Zeppelin and possibly the greatest drummer in histroy. Well no, that title goes…
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Revolver at 50: The Most Important Beatles Record
On the official 50th Anniversary of the release of the sixth studio record by The Beatles, Revolver (EMI, 1966), SFN‘s Editor-in-chief Jack Cinnamond gives his overall opinion on the legendary record and why he thinks it was the Fab Four‘s most important record. When time came for The Beatles to record their sixth record named…
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