Archive - Penny Kiley's music writing

An Emotional Fish, June 1990

“Wild and beautiful and alarming”

Jun 20 •

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, June 1990

“They inhabit a grey world, seen in black and white and told colourfully.”

Jun 6 •

May 2025

Siouxsie and the Banshees, 1985

"Siouxsie spins out a voice from the palm of her hand, stretching until the thread snaps."

May 23 •

The Alarm, 1983

In tribute to Mike Peters

May 9 •

April 2025

Big Audio Dynamite, April 1986

Open-ended brilliance.

Apr 25 •

It’s Immaterial, 1987

"This rock'n'roll life, it's a bit weird.”

Apr 11 •

March 2025

The Danse Society, March 1983

Was “new punk” the next big thing?

Mar 28 •

Echo & The Bunnymen and the KLF, March 1990

The legendary Reverberation festival

Mar 14 •

February 2025

Dead or Alive, February 1982

Malevolent beauty and arrogant humour

Feb 28 •

Au Pairs, February 1981

On the third song I realised what was their strength: anger.

Feb 14 •

January 2025

Amazulu, January 1984

"If there were more women in the music business we wouldn't be such a novelty."

Jan 31 •

Alan Bleasdale on Elvis Presley, 1985

“I've never seen a man that erotic.”

Jan 17 •

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