pronounced Hoo-sker Doo : the archive



Any pieces relating to either Sugar or Nova Mob will be found in the Bob Mould or Grant Hart sections respectively; sometimes the line between a solo interview and a band one is pretty grey...

If anyone has any copyright issues, please  mail me. I'm only presenting this material here because I believe it would otherwise be unavailable. Thanks.

Any typos/spelling mistakes are as in the original piece. Relevant images ∓ headings included, though the original layouts haven't been preserved (so little time...) Some of the images are pretty big.

And, yeah, Vic Chesnutt was never in the band but he's a mate of Bobs...

New = added since first version (1999?)


Hüsker Dü

Bucketfull of Brains Issue 13  post(ish)-SST, pre-WB interview

Warehouse... review Melody Maker 17th Jan. 1987  Sums it all up for me. Bonus 'Could You Be The One' review!

Warehouse... ∓ Candy Apple Grey re-issue reviews Melody Maker '92  Just what it says...

New Musical Express 25th July 1992 - Hüsker Dü Consumer Guide  Album guide, originally a side-bar to the Sugar piece in the same issue.



Grant Hart / Nova Mob

Sounds 21st January 1989  GHs side of the split...

Sounds 25th November 1989  GHs side of the split...again. Great pics.

Sounds live review '89  First solo UK gig...

Melody Maker live review 2nd December 1989  First solo UK gig...

Melody Maker 2nd December 1989  nice personal interview

Bucketfull of Brains Issue 32  'Intolerance' chat

Thicker #3 1995  The Hüsker Dü fall-out continues...



Bob Mould / Sugar

Sounds 1st July 1989    ∓    Melody Maker 8th July 1989  The biggies; the first BM interviews I ever read. Let's just say they had quite an effect on me.

Sounds live review '89  BMs first solo UK gig...and only two days after Grants...

Melody Maker live review 2nd December 1989  BMs first solo UK gig...

Melody Maker 1st September 1990  Seems like Black Sheets... didn't warrent such an in-depth article...

Sounds 1st September 1990  Typically inventive brit-headlining.

Option #39 1991  Paired with a Jello Biafra piece, interesting perspective.

Convulsion Issue 2 '92  Post-gig ambush, interesting comments about the 'new band' (considering the date of the interview).

NME '92 Material World (Sugar)  Trivia, just how we like it...

Record Collector '92  Career overview as of '92 with an obvious bias towards record releases. The discography is for interest only, for the real deal go to Paul Hilcoffs site...

New Musical Express 25th July 1992 (Sugar)  Copper Blue business

Melody Maker 8th August 1992 (Sugar)  ditto

New Musical Express 17th October 1992 (Sugar)  Origin of the infamous 'sleeps with TV volume up' quote...(maybe)

Lemon (Australian zine '92) (Sugar)

new itemAbaze #10 1992 (Sugar)  Nice interview ∓ Copper Blue review (even if the Dave Barbe quip is nothing short of treasonous)

Guitar Player October 1992  Muso talk...

New Musical Express 3rd April 1993 (Sugar)  Beaster biz and some scary millennium psychosis talk...

Cake Issue 27/28 Mid '94  Heavy on the Wrestling analogies, content relevant comments appreciated.

Radio 1 Evening Session - Undrugged gig Mid '94  Not sure if I'd describe FU:EL the way Bob does here....

New Musical Express 13th August 1994 (Sugar)  FU:EL talk, he hates alternative rock.

Sun Zoom Spark Issue 5 - October 1994  Neat caricature (potential t-shirt?), godawful pun

Q Late '94  Nice career summmary with neat pics of Bob smiling.

Raygun late '94 (Sugar)  Vic Chesnutt interviews Bob! Nice wide-ranging discussion.

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Vic Chesnutt

The Guardian 25th September 1998  Excellent warts'n'all interview.

Peerpee No. 1 late '95  Neat zine interview (Bob Mould gets a mention...)









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