Blondie - 'Panic For Girls'
More showing their roots than going back to their roots, this is Blondie attempting a Killers-style anthemic electro-rock makeover but with only limited success. Lead-off single ‘Mother’ , a recollection of Debbie Harry[/b]’s days on the...
This Week's Singles Reviewed - 23/05/2011
Every Monday we deliver our verdict on the new single releases. Here Dan Martin takes apart this week's offerings, including the latest tracks from Blondie, Jessie J and Villagers... Blondie - 'Mother' Make no mistake, the only reason this...
Livid
The freak show flickers and then, having flickered, fucks off. Well, that's the idea ! But mortgages and tax bills and alimony and the tragic fact that nobody ever seems to choke on their vomit any more added to the even sadder fact that nothing...
Blondie : No exit
And, wooh, eerie, hold the concept, here are Blondie . But for all their late-'70s influence on everything from New York (from new wave to hip-hop), 'No Exit' , though it features the ninth- and tenth-in batsmen from the Wu Tang Clan ,...
Blondie : Nothing is real but the girl
First loves never die, they say, and crikey, did I love Blondie when I was 13. So yeah, it is heartening to learn that their recent comeback album shifted a million copies in just three weeks and that the band play their first UK arena shows...
No Exit
Two decades ago, Blondie ruled the post-punk charts. Ice-cool New Yorkers with an arch Anglophile sensibility and impeccably trashy glamour, they took smelly old rock down to Studio 54 and helped introduce rap to mainstream audiences. Debbie...
Newcastle Civic Hall
Here she comes now. Yeah, you know her. Miss Icon Supreme. She may look a bit different where the years and pounds have softened her edges, but when DEBBIE HARRY takes those first stiletto strides into view, it's like the Mona Lisa with arms...
