RIP Seymour Stein

“Hello. Is that Kevin? It’s Seymour Stein.” I laughed into the phone. “Good one, Macca. See you.” I thought it was Paul McKenna or Crofty from the label, having a laugh during a spliff-fuelledProduce Records marketing meeting. The phone went again.“Hi, we got cut...

Locomotive Club Paris, December 1990

On the 7th Dec 1990 we played the legendary Locomotive Club in Paris – a certain Seymour Stein turned up determined to sign the group to his Sire label – home of Talking Heads, The Ramones, Echo and the Bunnyment, The Smiths, The Cure – the list goes...