Tim Batcup

Tim Batcup

Tim Batcup is a writer for Classic Rock magazine and Prog magazine. He's also the owner of Cover To Cover, Swansea's only independent bookshop, and a director of Storyopolis, a free children’s literacy project based at the Volcano Theatre, Swansea. He likes music, books and Crass. 

Latest articles by Tim Batcup

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Jane’s Addiction: Live In NYC

By Tim Batcup Published

Last year’s live set in the Big Apple fails to ignite.

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Kingdom Come: Outlier

By Tim Batcup Published

The song remains the same?

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And So I Watch You From Afar: All Hail Bright Futures

By Tim Batcup Published

Post-rock will eat itself.

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Bullet For My Valentine: Temper Temper

By Tim Batcup Published

Bridge(nd) over troubled water for Welsh rockers.

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Crippled Black Phoenix: No Sadness Or Farewell

By Tim Batcup Published

Eggs, flames and ashes: genre-sidestepping collective rehatch once again.

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Warrior Soul: Stiff Middle Finger

By Tim Batcup Published

Alt-rock trailblazer still kicking against the pricks.

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James Iha: Look To The Sky

By Tim Batcup Published

Star (shoe) gazing with Pumpkins co-founder.

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The Coal Porters: Find The One

By Tim Batcup Published

Haringey hillbillies.

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Goat: World Music

By Tim Batcup Published

Scandinavian tales of ethnographic oceans.

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Buffalo Killers: Dig. Sow. Love. Grow.

By Tim Batcup Published

Three bred in Ohio.

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Slash Ft Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators: Apocalyptic Love

By Tim Batcup Published

Guitar god’s love-in with Alter Bridge frontman on album number two bears tasty fruit.

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Killing Joke: MMXII

By Tim Batcup Published

It’s the end of the world as we know it. But what a way to go...

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’77: High Decibels

By Tim Batcup Published

The clue’s in the title.

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Jane’s Addiction: The Great Escape Artist

By Tim Batcup Published

Rejuvenated art-rock pioneers achieve escape velocity with their fourth album.

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David R Black: Secret City

By Tim Batcup Published

Black on the street again.

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Spirits Of The Dead: The Great God Pan

By Tim Batcup Published

Albion informed prog-folk whimsy. Norwegian style.

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The Bookhouse Boys: Tales To Be Told

By Tim Batcup Published

London noir bumps into American Gothic.

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Huw Lloyd-Langton’s LLG: Hard Graft

By Tim Batcup Published

Into the wild blue yonder.

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