Maggoty Lamb interviews visionary music critic David Toop
So influential is the author of Ocean of Sound that some are now saying "we are all David Toops". How does that feel?Jump-racing enthusiasts have the Cheltenham festival, and for fans of student comedy there's the Edinburgh fringe, but avid consumers of music journalism have never previously had their own defining event to spend all year getting excited about. (Unless you count such essentially melancholic rituals as the disastrous annual Q relaunch or wondering if it was really such a good idea...
Guardian Music — So influential is the author of Ocean of Sound that some are now saying "we are all David Toops". How does that feel?Jump-racing enthusiasts have the Cheltenham festival,... more info