Mark Beaumont

London

Music Journalist at Freelance

Rock hack extraordinaire (NME, Independent, Times, Evening Standard, Telegraph, Guardian, Uncut, Classic Rock, etc). Book enquiries: DM me for agent details

Articles

Supergrass on ‘I Should Coco’ at 30: ‘We got more and more psychedelic’

4 days ago | independent.co.uk | Mark Beaumont

InterviewSongs played at 150mph; dressing like hippie street urchins; the singer’s mum’s ‘intervention’: Britpop’s little brother band tell Mark Beaumont about the making of a classic album and the era-defining afterlife of ‘Alright’I’d like to know where all the strange ones go,” belted out Gaz Coombes on track one side one of Supergrass’s 1995 debut album. In real life, they were all around him.
no Shane MacGowan but plenty of memories

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Mark Beaumont
get your freaker on

2 weeks ago | nme.com | Mark Beaumont

If you go down to the sawmill today – brrr, the sawmill – prepare for an even bigger surprise. Bend Studio’s grand 2019 folly Days Gone has had a PS5 upgrade, and it’s no longer a biker World War Z. It’s a biker World War XXL.
The Flaming Lips review

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Mark Beaumont
Lorde - What Was That review: Alt pop star Lorde has returned for her crown on new single

3 weeks ago | independent.co.uk | Mark Beaumont

Following an electro-pop rebirth by way of a Charli XCX collaboration, the singer returns to what she does best: crafting melancholic, minimal yet monumental tracks for heartbroken soulsMark BeaumontWhen Lorde gets ghosted, it’s like Banquo at the feast. “Do you know you’re still with me, when I’m out with my friends?” she sings huskily at the spectral memory of a teenage sweetheart and long-term drug buddy, now off with someone else instead.
“It’s such a magic connection”

3 weeks ago | uncut.co.uk | Mark Beaumont

Brian D’Addario is used to transporting his listeners back to the ’60s with the music of The Lemon Twigs; now he’s done the same for original hippie bard Stephen Kalinich. “I’d send him poems and he was so supportive of me,” Kalinich says of their collaboration on D’Addario’s forthcoming solo album Till The Morning. “It was like with Dennis [Wilson], I had that feeling with him. He’s so open. It’s such a magic connection… beyond just human.
giving his songs a sumptuous sweep

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Mark Beaumont
Pink Floyd At Pompeii: MCMLXXII review: history meets legendary

1 month ago | nme.com | Mark Beaumont

Walking across steaming gravel pits – swathed in floating images of bubbling volcanic mud pools, ancient pillars and terror-stricken gargoyles hewn into the living rock – Pink Floyd arrived at Pompeii in 1971 intent on melting time.
‘Pink Floyd At Pompeii: MCMLXXII’ review: they don’t make them like this anymore

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Mark Beaumont

I Just Realized Where I Know ‘The Last of Us’ Star Bella Ramsey From—and I'm Shocked I Didn't Catch It SoonerIf you haven’t heard of The Last of Us yet, allow me to introduce your next TV obsession. The HBO hit has taken the world by storm—and no, that’s not …
Eric Clapton fails to wake up the neighbours on the cathartic but glum Pilgrim

1 month ago | loudersound.com | Mark Beaumont

The Band - The BandMy Father's EyesRiver of TearsPilgrimBroken HeartedOne ChanceCircusGoing Down SlowFall Like RainBorn in TimeSick and TiredNeeds His WomanShe's GoneYou Were ThereInside of MeThe nine years since he’d released his previous album of original material, 1989’s superb Journeyman, had been fraught with trauma for Eric Clapton.