Ian Winwood

United Kingdom

Music Journalist at Kerrang!

Articles

Kneecap have their day in court

1 week ago | thenewworld.co.uk | Ian Winwood

I don’t know if Mo Chara will be late for his own funeral, but he was certainly late for his day in court. Pitching up on the Marylebone Road at a blush before 10am, the 27-year-old was running behind schedule even before he’d set foot inside Westminster Magistrates Court. For all it’s worth, I can’t help wondering if there were mitigating circumstances for this.
The Metallica album that incensed their fans is back

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ian Winwood

Determined to push the envelope further, the artwork's inner sleeves feature photographs taken by Anton Corbijn of drummer Lars Ulrich and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett - always the group's progressive wing - sporting feather boas and make-up. As if fighting a rearguard action, vocalist and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield could be seen throwing devil horns in a leather jacket bearing a Slayer badge.
Morrissey, Glasgow O2 Academy, review: He is human, he needs to be loved – and he is

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Ian Winwood

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Morrissey, Glasgow O2 Academy, review: He is human, he needs to be loved – and he is

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Ian Winwood

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
Morrissey, Glasgow O2 Academy, review: He is human, he needs to be loved - and he is

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ian Winwood

Morrissey performing in 2022 - GettyAt barely nine pm on Wednesday evening, at Glasgow’s tastefully decrepit O2 Academy, Morrissey came close to bringing down the house in more than a figurative sense. As his fat-free five-piece band struck down How Is Soon Is Now?, that most precious of gems by The Smiths, the sound of the applause and acclaim of two-and-a-half-thousand people was louder than bombs.
Morrissey, Glasgow O2 Academy, review: He is human, he needs to be loved

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ian Winwood

At barely nine pm on Wednesday evening, at Glasgow's tastefully decrepit O2 Academy, Morrissey came close to bringing down the house in more than a figurative sense. As his fat-free five-piece band struck down How Is Soon Is Now?, that most precious of gems by The Smiths, the sound of the applause and acclaim of two-and-a-half-thousand people was louder than bombs. As the hullabaloo at last subsided, down at the front, one lady demanded the 66-year-old take off his clothes.
Is this a hate march?

1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Ian Winwood

On a sun-kissed day in central London, I went on what certain commentators and politicians would call a hate march. With the Thames to their left and the Palace of Westminster up ahead, thousands of people from all over the country were streaming across Hungerford Bridge to protest against bloodshed in a foreign land; to boo the Israeli government and to cheer Gaza. There were half a million there, said the organisers. The Met Police said it was more like 20,000.
Daryl Hall and Glenn Tilbrook: Proof that you can be too old to rock

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Ian Winwood

7 hours agoThe 'Late Show' host wasn't having any of it. Taylor Swift has become the latest celebrity for Donald Trump to have a tantrum about, and Stephen Colbert isn't having any of it. During Monday's Late Show, the host brought up a recent Truth Social post in which the President of the United States wrote …
Proof that you can be too old to rock

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ian Winwood

At the midpoint of a set that at times tested the boundaries of endurance, on Monday night at the Royal Albert Hall, Daryl Hall played a yawningly indifferent version of Walking in Between Raindrops, a yacht-rock lowlight from his most recent album, D. At its eventual end, with something like chutzpah, he looked at the audience and said, "I can tell that you liked that one". Not where I was sitting, they didn't.
'We need to get back to a place where the facts and truth matter'

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ian Winwood

The singer-songwriter on growing up in poverty, selling millions of records, and her battles with the rats of New YorkAs the eldest of four children, at age six, Suzanne Vega used to look after her baby brother while her mother took her middle siblings out shopping for groceries at stores local to the family home on the East Side of Manhattan. On such occasions, she'd receive warnings of the dangers posed by the city's most tenacious residents.