{{Short description|London-based music magazine}} {{distinguish|text=''The Bob'', a Philadelphia-based music magazine of the 1980s–1990s}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Bucketfull of Brains | logo = Bucketfull of Brains logo 2011.jpg | logo_size = 136px | image_file = Bucketfull of Brains 81 front cover.jpg | image_size = <!-- (defaults to user thumbnail size if no size is stated) --> | image_alt = Front cover of Bucketfull of Brains issue #81 | image_caption = Cover of ''BoB'' #81 (Summer/Autumn 2013) | editor = Nick West<br />Terry Hermon | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = Music | frequency = | circulation = | publisher = | founder = Nigel Cross | founded = 1979 | firstdate = | company = | country = United Kingdom | based = London | language = English | website = {{URL|www.bucketfullofbrains.com}} | issn = | oclc = }} '''''Bucketfull of Brains''''' (also known as '''''BoB''''') was a London-based music magazine, founded in 1979 and published until 2015 . An associated record label was launched in 2010.
==History== ''Bucketfull of Brains'' was founded by Nigel Cross in 1979, and was published in the UK continuously, on an irregular schedule, until 2015. Nigel Cross edited the first ten issues. Jon Storey took over in 1984 and edited the magazine from BoB#11 to BoB#45. In 1996, the magazine passed to an editorial board comprising Nick West, Joss Hutton, Joe Presedo and Terry Hermon. Joss Hutton and Joe Presedo both resigned in 1999, leaving an editorial team of West and Hermon from BoB#55 until the magazine's closure with BoB#83 in 2015.<ref name=bob-aboutus/>
Editorial interest, over the years, has included "an affection for songs with guitars and thus bands like the Barracudas, the Flamin' Groovies, the Dream Syndicate, the Long Ryders and the Green Pajamas hold a special place in its affections."<ref name=bob-aboutus/>
''Bucketfull of Brains'' has been acknowledged by ''Trouser Press'' as a source of "essential discographical and background information."<ref name=robbins1991/> According to American music writer John M. Borack, the magazine has earned a reputation as a "quality, focused publication" in both Great Britain and the United States by "championing worthy artists big and small".<ref name=borack/>
In 1989, founder and editor Nigel Cross received an unusual honour from members of the band R.E.M.<ref name=schinder/> During R.E.M.'s 1989 tour for their album ''Green'' (1988), members of R.E.M. combined with Robyn Hitchcock and Peter Holsapple to form a band that they called Nigel and the Crosses, which played two concerts during periods between R.E.M.'s shows.<ref name=schinder/><ref name=chitrib1989/> Nigel and the Crosses debuted on 8 March 1989 with a show in Minneapolis, and in London on 28 May 1989, Nigel and the Crosses played a 90-minute show in Soho at the Borderline Club, which ''BoB'' reviewer Jon Storey called "enough fine music ... to satisfy anyone."<ref name=reveal/> Nigel and the Crosses also recorded a version of the song "Wild Mountain Thyme" for the 1989 album ''Time Between – A Tribute to The Byrds'',<ref name=sullivan/> and a live 7" single that was distributed with ''BoB'' #34.<ref name=discogs-nigel/>
In addition to publishing the magazine and associated blogs, in 2010 ''Bucketfull of Brains'' launched a record label, which is distributed by Proper Music Distribution.<ref name=bobrecords/> Its recording artists include Benjamin Folke Thomas, Trent Miller and John Murry.<ref name=bobrecords/>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=robbins1991>{{cite book|editor-last=Robbins|editor-first=Ira A.|title=The Trouser Press Record Guide|year=1991|publisher=Collier Books|edition=4th|page=xv|isbn=9780020363613|url=https://archive.org/details/trouserpressreco002269mbp}}</ref> <ref name=reveal>{{cite book|last=Black|first=Johnny|title=Reveal: The Story of R.E.M.|pages=163–166|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|year=2004|isbn=9780879307769| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8wEetV920fYC&pg=PA163 }}</ref> <ref name=schinder>{{cite book|last=Schinder|first=Scott|title=Rolling Stone's Alt Rock-a-Rama|page=[https://archive.org/details/rollingstonesalt00schi/page/1916 1916]|publisher=Delta|year=1996|isbn=9780385313605|url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonesalt00schi/page/1916|url-access=registration}}</ref> <ref name=chitrib1989>{{cite news|last=Kot|first=Greg|authorlink=Greg Kot|title=Fame Is A Pain|date=June 28, 1989|newspaper=Chicago Tribune| url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/06/28/fame-is-a-pain/|url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013091323/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-06-28/features/8902130144_1_andy-metcalfe-and-drummer-kimberly-rew-soft-boys |archive-date=2013-10-13 }}</ref> <ref name=sullivan>{{cite book|editor-last=Sullivan|editor-first=Denise|title=R.E.M.: Talk about the Passion: an Oral History|page=222|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=1998|isbn=9780306808579|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mdjUgSLSUkC&pg=PA222 }}</ref> <ref name=bob-aboutus>{{cite web|title=About Us|author=Bucketfull of Brains|year=2012|url= http://bucketfullofbrains.wordpress.com/aboutus/ |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718115317/http://bucketfullofbrains.wordpress.com/aboutus/ |archivedate=2012-07-18 }}</ref> <ref name=discogs-nigel>{{Discogs artist|artist=Nigel And The Crosses|name=Nigel And The Crosses}}</ref> <ref name=bobrecords>{{cite web|title=Bucketfull of Brains Records|year=2014|url= http://www.bucketfullofbrains.net/about/|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220183432/http://www.bucketfullofbrains.net/about/|archivedate= 2014-02-20}}</ref> <ref name=borack>{{cite book|last=Borack|first=John M.|authorlink=John M. Borack|title=Shake Some Action: The Ultimate Power Pop Guide|publisher=Not Lame Recordings|year=2007|isbn=9780979771408|page=166|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqtGTJgE4rEC&pg=PA166 }}</ref> }}
==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.bucketfullofbrains.com/}} * [http://bucketfullofbrains.blogspot.com/ Blog] (dated April 4, 2008 to August 23, 2013) * [http://bucketfullofbrains.wordpress.com/ Blog] (dated March 5, 2012 to April 13, 2013) * [http://www.bucketfullofbrains.net/about/ Bucketfull of Brains Records]
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