Lauren Strain: music journalist and writer for Leeds Music Scene

Latest article by this writer was posted on Friday, 8th September 2006

Lauren Strain

Music journalist and writer for Leeds Music Scene.

Hello, I'm Lauren, I love music more than most things in this existence, I write lots, I drink a fair bit, I read not as much as I should do and I sleep even less than that.

Interviews (4)

  • ¡Forward, Russia!
    The scheme brewing in the collective mind of ¡Forward, Russia!, Leeds' pioneers of screeching, mercurial noise, is a simple one. It goes like this...
  • Ali Whitton
    Lauren Strain caught up with Ali Whitton at Manchester's Dry Bar to look back on a busy 2005 for the songwriter, which included an appearance at Leeds Festival and saw the release of his "Kisses" and "Curses" EPs.
  • Arctic Monkeys
    "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor", Arctic Monkeys' second single and first full-scale release, has shifted a rattling avalanche of around 33,000 copies thus far whilst simultaneously thrusting a very sharp, very painful spear labelled "Reality Check" up the rear end of the boring, apathetic public.
  • Jesse Malin
    Upon entering Jesse Malin's dressing room at Sheffield's Club Zero we encounter not only the man himself but also a bowl of jelly babies. This can only be a good thing...

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