Taylor Parkes
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Taylor Parkes (born 30 April 1972) is a British journalist. He is best known for his music journalism which appeared in Melody Maker from 1993 to 1998, notable for a style which mixed dark humour, especially in bitterly critical pieces, with an intellectual tone, influenced by the likes of Simon Reynolds and Paul Morley.
Parkes was most closely associated with bands he considered to be unafraid of their own intelligence, including Saint Etienne, Pulp,[1] Spice Girls, Manic Street Preachers[2] and the Romo scene (which he championed along with colleague Simon Price).[3] He took a stand against what he saw as less adventurous Britpop groups of the mid-1990s. Conversely, he was for a time largely positive towards Oasis,[4] in stark contrast to Price. Parkes also occasionally championed avant-garde phenomena such as Post-rock
He also contributed to Careless Talk Costs Lives and Plan B, both edited by his former Melody Maker colleague Everett True, as well as 1990s pop-cultural magazine Ikon and early 2000s music monthly Bang.
He has since written for the football magazine When Saturday Comes[5] and The Quietus,[6] a music and pop culture website, and presents a monthly feature for the radio programme Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service on BBC Radio 6 Music.[7]
References[]
- ^ "PULP - ACRYLIC AFTERNOONS - Jarvis Cocker Interview". Acrylicafternoons.com. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ^ "The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | There Are No Horizons: The Holy Bible At 25, By Taylor Parkes". The Quietus. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ^ The Plastic Age – live review of Plastic Fantastic/Viva/DexDexTer by Taylor Parkes, Melody Maker. 7 October 1995 p16
- ^ "The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | A British Disaster: Blur's Parklife, Britpop, Princess Di & The 1990s". The Quietus. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ^ Parkes, Taylor. "When Saturday Comes - No love, no joy". Wsc.co.uk. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ^ "The Quietus". The Quietus. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- Melody Maker writers
- British male journalists
- English music journalists
- People educated at Magdalen College School, Brackley
- Romo
- British journalist stubs