Voodoo

Steven Severin to appear solo in Edinburgh

Mild frenzy at Uncut today as we put the finishing touches to our end-of-year issue. As a consequence, I've not had a chance to do the full blog, but here's the music we've played in the office. Favourites?

Jimi Hendrix: Not Necessarily Stoned. . .But Beautiful A few of us from the office went last night to the launch of the Jimi Hendrix Live At Monterey DVD and CD at the Hippodrome in Leicester Square, a swanky former nightclub now used for corporate events. I was last there for a party that followed IPC’s annual editorial awards, an event made especially memorable by a spectacular fall down a particularly steep flight of stairs, after which things become very vague, my memory of subsequent events – getting home, things like that – almost wholly non-existent.

Supergroup of musicians celebrate 40 years since Monterey Pop Festival

Keef, comedy monkeys and Keira’s chin.

Few figures have cast as big a shadow over rock’n’roll history as that of Bo Diddley.

Demented third from Grammy-nominated Liverpudlian misfits

Yes, on tuesday, June 13, 1978, voodoo rockabilly avatars The Cramps (in their greatest line-up, Lux Interior and Poison Ivy backed by Nick Knox and Byron Gregory) rolled into the recreation room of California's Napa State Mental Hospital, to play for the residents. Don't ask how this was ever allowed.

The Addiction plug straight back into the main vein

Ex-Wall Of Voodoo leader's 1995 album