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18 paź 2011 · Nix Lowrey talks to Howard Devoto of Magazine about sex and personality management. Portrait: Graeme Oxby. Howard Devoto, quixotic wit and reluctant poppist, has often seemed too intellectually big for rock music’s slender-fit boots. And what’s more, we know he knows it, and has always known it.
Magazine's Howard Devoto talks about the band's comeback album Reformations are all the rage. The last week has been in meltdown because of the Stone Roses but perhaps one of the most successful ones was Magazine who regrouped a couple of years ago after a long time away.
Howard Devoto (born Howard Andrew Trafford, 15 March 1952) [1] is an English singer and songwriter, who began his career as the frontman for punk rock band Buzzcocks, but then left to form Magazine, an early post-punk band. After Magazine, he went solo and later formed indie band Luxuria.
Magazine were a British rock band formed in 1977 in Manchester in England by singer Howard Devoto and guitarist John McGeoch. After leaving the punk group Buzzcocks in early 1977, Devoto decided to create a more progressive and less "traditional" rock band.
20 lip 2024 · A lovely twinkling piano and soulful Hammond organ accompanies Devoto as he sweetly croons “Religion, it wasn’t meant for everyone.” ‘No Thyself’ does not, unfortunately, live up to the exalted heights of the band’s debut ‘Real Life’, but it is more than a worthy addition to their cannon and is far better than anyone could have ...
1 paź 2024 · The original frontman of Buzzcocks, he quit after their pioneering ’76 EP Spiral Scratch to channel sublime postpunk alienation with Magazine, confiding penetrating unease on such essential 45s as Shot By Both Sides and a series of extraordinary LPs. After their 1981 split, he completed the decade with 1983’s solo album Jerky Versions.
After leaving Buzzcocks in 1977, shortly after serving up Spiral Scratch, an insistent early punk masterpiece, vocalist Howard Devoto cast about for a fresh start. “I don’t like movements,” he said.
