Tom Taylor

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Wed 28 May 2025 19:30, UK Mick Jagger shuffles around backstage, an empty sack of nerves. He hasn’t been able to eat properly for days. There are a few snacks laid out before him in the dusty dressing room, but he feels so hollow, he could likely swallow the plate and it would drop straight out of him like a coin in a faulty vending machine. The Marquee Club has always been a traditional jazz joint where the blues is belittled as an aberration, like a Pizza Hut in the heart of Naples.

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Wed 28 May 2025 19:00, UK There is a strange phenomenon known as Post Japan Syndrome that documents the dangers of a utopian precedent. In short, travellers return from a vacation in the land of the rising sun, and find themselves so utterly disappointed by their own realities that they struggle to readjust. Many guitarists have cited a similar strangeness when it comes to the legacy of Jimi Hendrix.

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Wed 28 May 2025 15:41, UK It is an often-asked question: What did Bill Murray whisper to Scarlett Johansson at the finale of Lost in Translation? And it is often answered: Does it really matter? Nevertheless, it is the sort of poetic moment that yearns for a little more than reading between the lines, and that bittersweet beauty is a perfect paradigm of the searching we often face in our own life when figurative whispers prove equally hard to fathom in the brief moment that they are presented.

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

To read American Psycho is to say, at one point or another, ‘how on earth did they think of adapting this into a movie?’ The prose is so vividly grotesque that you wonder whether Bret Easton Ellis has broken some kind of law. You picture the moment his friends first started to read their buddy’s latest novel, and questioned whether they should still hang around with him. In truth, that’s the brilliance of his work. It is bold, uncompromising, and beyond the pale.

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Sun 25 May 2025 22:00, UK Lou Reed once said, “I don’t think the British should play rock ‘n’ roll.” Suspecting this quip was at least partly ironic, Bill Boggs, who was interviewing him, followed up by asking him what they should play. “I don’t think they should play anything,” was his curt reply. While ‘anything’ is a little extreme, perhaps he was right on the former point. What is British rock ‘n’ roll? The phrase itself feels like an oxymoron.