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Kieron Tyler

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Kieron Tyler has contributed to Britain's MOJO magazine since 1999 and is the author of 'Smashing It Up: A Decade Of Chaos With The Damned', the critically-acclaimed and definitive biography of the first decade of the pioneering British punk rock band. His writing has also appeared in Billboard (America), The Guardian, i (the newspaper), The Independent, Les Inrockuptibles (France), Music Week, Q, Rumba (Finland) and Ugly Things (America).

Articles By Kieron Tyler

Music Reissues Weekly: Magazine - Real Life, Secondhand Daylight, The Correct Use of Soap

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Yardbirds - The Ultimate Live at the BBC

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Album: Møster! - Springs

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Music Reissues Weekly: Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Singles

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Music Reissues Weekly: Gerry and the Pacemakers - I Like It! Anthology 1963-1966

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Album: Tess Parks - Pomegranate

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Music Reissues Weekly: Rain - Tomorrow Never Comes: The NYC Sessions 1967-1968

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Album: Elephant9 with Terje Rypdal - Catching Fire

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Music Reissues Weekly: Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa

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Album: Permafrost - The Light Coming Through

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Devil Rides In - Spellbinding Satanic Magick & The Rockult

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Music Reissues Weekly: Why Don’t You Smile Now - Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964-65

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Album: Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God

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Music Reissues Weekly: New Jill Swing

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Music Reissues Weekly: Sean Buckley & The Breadcrumbs

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Album: Juniore - Trois, Deux, Un

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Album: The Divine Comedy - Rainy Sunday Afternoon

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The Producers, Garrick Theatre review - Ve haf vays of makin...

Unexpectedly, there’s a sly reference to James Joyce’s Ulysses interpolated into Act One (in case we hadn’t caught the not...

Lammermuir Festival 2025, Part 2 review - from the soaringly...

My colleague Boyd Tonkin visited the Lammermuir Festival for the first time this year. His eyes and ears have been opened to its treasures, but...

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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review - comedy rock band f...

That difficult second documentary – or if you will, “rockumentary” – seems to have been especially challenging for...

Tosca, Welsh National Opera review - a great company reduced...

So it’s come to this: WNO’s autumn season reduced to two operas, a Tosca borrowed from Opera North and a revival of their own Candide...

Not Your Superwoman, Bush Theatre review - powerful tribute...

The Bush is likely to continue its fine recent run of hit plays, with this funny, poignant, culturally authentic and beautifully acted two-hander...

Music Reissues Weekly: Robyn - Robyn 20th-Anniversary Editio...

Sometimes, record labels don’t like what those on their roster have recorded. Such was the case with BMG Sweden and Robin Carlsson who, as Robyn,...