Chicken and egg situations are usually irresolvable, but it’s impossible to avoid the feeling that before their British venture The Method Actors must have impacted on the nascent R.E.M. This is made ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Birmingham’s stylish The Hawks in 1979 – three-fifths of whom were Stephen Duffy, Dave Kusworth and man-of-many-bands Dave Twist The tale is representative of Birmingham’s musical profile during the ...