Speech Debelle: 'I thought it was a brilliant album' | Music | The Guardian (10 September 2009)
Mercury prizewinning rapper Speech Debelle is exhausted. She won the Mercury prize for her debut album, Speech Therapy, less than 24 hours ago and her day is jam-packed with interviews, phone calls and taxis. "That's the first thing to have passed my lips since last night," she says, grimacing at a cup of pallid-looking coffee.
PiL's sonic sorcery can't work without Levene and Wobble | Music | guardian.co.uk (10 September 2009)
And so the news that Lydon has reformed PiL with guitarist Lu Edmonds (who has played with the Damned and the Mekons), a multi-instrumentalist called Scott Firth, and most promisingly, Bruce Smith of post-punk/funk noir types the Pop Group on drums, doesn't excite quite as much as it would have done had Messrs Levene and Wobble been on board.
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