Sam Kemp

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Writer at Far Out Magazine

Writer and musician based in South East London

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Articles

The one movie Quentin Tarantino called "flaccid"

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Sam Kemp

Wed 16 April 2025 20:31, UK Cinema is a tough place to find ubiquitous acclaim. There are so many variables to what makes a great movie that finding a single picture, actor, or director that everyone holds in the highest esteem is a rare occurrence. However, it should be said that the consensus is that Quentin Tarantino is a director without filmic fault. Throughout his career, he has crafted some of the most beloved, revered and talked-about films of all time.
The forgotten bluesman who introduced Robert Plant to rock

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Sam Kemp

Wed 16 April 2025 20:06, UK There aren’t many decades as deeply impacted by the cultural revolution as the 1960s. Countless bands, musicians, writers, actors and creatives emerged during this ten-year span to make it one of the richest moments of the 20th century. Since then, the influx of huge rock acts has begun to dwindle. Robert Plant is one of the last living rock icons of the 1960s.
The one Neil Young song Roger Waters couldn't live without

3 weeks ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Sam Kemp

Sun 30 March 2025 19:55, UK If there’s one law you can rely on in this post-truth age, it is that rock curmudgeons attract. Roger Waters and Neil Young are perhaps the most curmudgeonly, politically engaged musicians around. It might seem harsh to both discount newer musicians for being media-trained and, ultimately, boring while still chastising Waters and Young for their polarising opinions.
The Neil Young song Roger Waters couldn’t live without: “A truth in everything he’s done”

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Sam Kemp

Some great news this week - from pictures and a brief video clip (which has already gone, due to the temporary nature of such things) posted by Polly …
The songs Jimmy Page "pinched" from a Scottish musician

3 weeks ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Sam Kemp

Sun 30 March 2025 17:15, UK The line between theft and flattery is incredibly thin. While some artists regard mimicry as a natural part of musical evolution, others aren’t so philosophical. The question of inspiration also becomes much more complicated when the artist accused of thievery has a higher profile than the artist they’ve stolen from, something Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page knows all too well.
10 of the best hotels in the Cotswolds, England's rural getaway

1 month ago | nationalgeographic.com | Amanda Canning |George Clode |Sam Kemp |Angela Locatelli

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). The Cotswolds fulfils every picture of rural England you might care to conjure. Pretty villages of ancient stone houses curl around country lanes, with low hills rolling between. Handsome market towns brim with antique shops and coaching inns. Sweeping over six counties in the south west, the region was made rich in the Middle Ages by the wool trade, and retains an air of unruffled, comfortable respectability.
The brutal murderer who inspired a classic AC/DC song

1 month ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Sam Kemp

Thu 20 March 2025 17:11, UK If there’s one thing you can’t do without as Australia’s premiere rock ‘n’ roll band, it’s a song about Australia’s hardest criminal. In 1974, AC/DC released ‘Jailbreak’, a song inspired by the convicted criminal, gang leader, torture fanatic and children’s author Mark ‘Chopper’ Read.
The song Neil Young wrote in memory of his beloved hearse

1 month ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Sam Kemp

Wed 19 March 2025 13:37, UK And yes, you did read that correctly. ‘Long May You Run’, the track taken from the 1976 Neil Young album Decade, was written to commemorate a formative moment in the musician’s life while paying tribute to the vehicle that allowed it to happen. From a glance, ‘Long May You Run’ sounds like a tender ballad for a friend or perhaps a long-lost lover.
James Hetfield's crucial advice for people battling addiction

1 month ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Sam Kemp

Wed 19 March 2025 13:07, UK Adversity breeds wisdom: this Metallica’s James Hetfield knows to be true. The music world is rife with stories of excess, tales of decedent parties laced with drug-fuelled euphoria and the eventual, inevitable comedowns. At the height of their fame in the 1980s, Metallica were at the very centre of this spinning wheel, and for lead vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield, it became the source of a crippling addiction to alcohol.
The vital lesson The Beatles taught Pink Floyd

1 month ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Sam Kemp

Wed 19 March 2025 12:58, UK Considering the Fab Four helped launch the acid-tinged movement that brought psychedelia into the mainstream, it’s no surprise Pink Floyd often cited The Beatles as a major influence on their stadium-sized brand of psych-rock. However, The Beatles did more than shape Pink Floyd’s sound—they also taught them a crucial lesson in songwriting. It all started in 1967. The two bands had been in close proximity until that point but never met.