MOJO

Launched in 1993, MOJO celebrates the stories of music's all-time greats. It does this through expertly written, insightful features and exclusive, in-depth interviews. MOJO also finds and recommends new music of quality and integrity, so if you want to read about the classics of now and tomorrow, it is definitely the music magazine for you. As founding editor Paul Du Noyer put it, MOJO has ""the sensibilities of a fanzine and the design values of Vogue."" It's lovingly put together every month by music fanatics with huge knowledge, who share your passion. And because they have unrivalled contacts in the music industry, they bring you the kind of access, news and expertise you won't find anywhere else.

THIS MONTH'S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE…

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE • THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING…

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Theories, rants, etc. • MOJO welcomes correspondence for publication. Write to us at: MOJO, H Bauer Publishing, The Lantern, 75 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2PL. E-mail to: mojoreaders@bauermedia.co.uk

Ballad Of A Young Man • Director James Mangold reveals all about his 1961-1965 Dylan bio-drama A Complete Unknown. Plus, Bob’s thoughts on the whole thing.

40 YEARS LATE, CREATION CULTS THE LOFT PREPARE THEIR DEBUT!

ALSO WORKING

PETER PERRETT • The Only Ones’ resurgent exile talks 30 years asleep, the “diseased world” of art and crying at films.

Shabaka Hutchings • Brit jazz’s woodwind warrior exults in Björk’s Vespertine (One Little Indian, 2001).

HEAVY FRIENDS GATHER FOR A LIVE CELEBRATION OF MARK LANEGAN AT 60

WHY DULCIMER-ANDBEYOND VISIONARY DOROTHY CARTER’S TIME IS NOW

ZITHER SISTER • Three of Dorothy Carter’s finest.

ALDOUS HARDING FRONTING THE BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND? TRY THE STRANGE BREW OF NAIMA BOCK

BEYOND OASIS AND RIDE, ANDY BELL PUTS HIS HAND ON THE GLOK

MOJO PLAYLIST • Hear ye, the month’s best funky soul, disco malaria and yob rock.

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THE MOJO INTERVIEW • The lodestars of folk, old-time and Americana survived an actual tornado to deliver one of MOJO’s albums of the year. Not bad for the “Martians” of contemporary music. “Even in the folk world we were weird,” say Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • Double take: Gillian & David down the years.

WELCH RARE BITS! • Three key albums by Welch and Rawlings, picked by Sylvie Simmons.

BABY, WE'LL BE FINE • A QUARTER CENTURY SINCE THEIR INCEPTION, CINCINNATI-VIA-BROOKLYN'S NEUROTIC OUTSIDERS HAVE SURVIVED STAGE FRIGHT AND LOCKDOWN BREAKDOWN TO TAKE THEIR NERDY, SERIOUS ALT-ROCK INTO ARENAS AND BEYOND. NOW THE NATIONAL'S MULTITUDE OF FANS INCLUDES TAYLOR SWIFT, BUT THEY STILL RECALL WHEN A CROWD OF 50 WAS A LUXURY. "WE FELT PROFOUNDLY UNCOOL," THEY TELL TOM DOYLE.

"MATT ISN'T AFRAID TO GET HIS HANDS DIRTY" • THE NATIONAL, BY FRIEND AND COLLABORATOR, SHARON VAN ETTEN.

COUNTRY MUSIC • FIVE TOTALLY GREAT ALBUMS BY THE NATIONAL. YOUR SELECTOR: TOM DOYLE.

THE STRANGE BIRTH OF SUPER FURRY ANIMALS • With roots in the Welsh-language rock scene, and informed by acid house and psychedelic rock, 1996’s head-spinning debut Fuzzy Logic came with an armful of hits. Soon, Howard Marks, Steely Dan and Oasis were all drawn into their slipstream. “People in mega-cities are hip to everything,” say the band and intimates, “but it might not be the best place to make something unique.”

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

NEIL INNES • NEIL INNES was the musical marvel of THE RUTLES, PYTHONS and THE BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND, with a genius for treating silliness seriously and vice versa. Five years since he passed, his wife’s memoir, an upcoming tribute show and a Bonzos box set mean 2024...