Stuart Bailie

Stuart Bailie

Stuart Bailie is a journalist and broadcaster based in Belfast. He is the editor of the quarterly Dig With It magazine, and his work has appeared in NME, Mojo, Uncut, Q, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Mirror, The Irish Times, Classic Rock and Hot Press. He was Assistant Editor of NME from 1992 to 1996 and is the author of Philip Lynott: The Ballad of the Thin Man, Trouble Songs: Music and Conflict In Northern Ireland, and 75 Van Songs: Into the Van Morrison Songbook. 

Articles by: Stuart Bailie

Neil Young – Oceanside Countryside album cover

“A charming history emerges from Young’s immense archive”: Neil Young’s Oceanside Countryside uncorks some vintage late 70s vibes from deep within the cellar

By Stuart Bailie published

The latest in Neil Young’s series of ’lost’ albums is a 1977 adventure, now welcomely restored.

Steely Dan - Katy Lied cover art

"Steely Dan had the capacity to be both inscrutable and popular, an enviable place to be": Steely Dan's tunes are rich and assured on the nonchalant Katy Lied

By Stuart Bailie published

The Dan has a sonic wingding in 1975

Bob Dylan And The Band: The 1974 Live Recordings cover art

"Treasured songs suffer repeated acts of vandalism": Bob Dylan and The Band create both towering art and frat-party havoc on The 1974 Live Recordings

By Stuart Bailie published

27 live CDs, 417 unreleased tracks, not all of it good, as Bob Dylan's archive is plundered again

Sinead O'Connor

"We’re heading somewhere beautiful and peaceful, but it may take some time to get there and there may be some fighting on the way": A tribute to Sinead O'Connor, pop star, protest singer and eternal rebel

By Stuart Bailie published

Irish music writer Stuart Bailie remembers the Sinéad O’Connor he knew

Lucinda Williams: Rock N Roll Heart cover art

Lucinda Williams rocks out of misfortune with Bruce Springsteen and friends

By Stuart Bailie published

After a stroke took away her ability to play guitar and her house was taken by a tornado, Lucinda Williams's Rock N Roll Heart brings light to the darkness

Adam Clayton and Bono headshots

Songs Of Surrender: U2 look back over their career with 40 skeletal covers of stadium bangers

By Stuart Bailie published

The album of the reading tour of the book: Songs Of Surrender attempts to connect the dots on the U2 story

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Black Star Riders: still channelling the warrior spirit of Thin Lizzy

By Stuart Bailie published

Wrong Side Of Paradise finds main Black Star Rider Ricky Warwick capturing the romance and the strut of old

THE UNDERTONES

Every The Undertones album ranked from worst to best

By Stuart Bailie published

There's much more to The Undertones than pop-punk classic Teenage Kicks. Here's the six studio albums released by Derry's finest, ranked worst to best

Bobby Gillespie

Every Primal Scream album ranked from worst to best

By Stuart Bailie published

Therapy? Nurse artwork

Darkness, destruction, drugs and a dead crow: how Therapy? killed off their hated 'Irish Nirvana' tag with the daring Nurse

By Stuart Bailie published

Released on November 2, 1992, Therapy?'s twisted major label debut Nurse torched expectations and paved way for one of the decade's finest rock albums

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: Joe Srummer 001: The Merscaleros Years cover art

Fierce and artful to the end, Joe Strummer's music resonates more than ever

By Stuart Bailie published

A second volume of former Clash man Joe Strummer’s vital history, covering the Mescalero years

Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy cover art

Manic Street Preachers' contrary Sandinista moment now refined and repackaged

By Stuart Bailie published

Manic Street Preachers' congested sixth album Know Your Enemy has been reassembled as two separate parts

Steve Earle & The Dukes: Jerry Jeff cover art

Steve Earle & The Dukes are ragged and true on Jerry Jeff Walker tribute

By Stuart Bailie published

Songwriter and survivor Steve Earle pays dues to departed outlaw Jerry Jeff Walker