Steve robinson articles

  • Talking Sport Now & Then: Steve Hossack on Rovers' play-off woe, Steve Evans, Challenge Cup and Doncaster Knights

    But for Doncaster Rovers’ fans the evening will be remembered as the night their dream of a second Wembley appearance, and the chance of a return to League One, was shattered. Despite manager Grant McCann warning that the job was only half done I’m pretty sure that the vast majority of the Rovers’ fans in the club’s biggest crowd of the season – and how good was it to see the ground packed out – would have felt that the tie had been decided at Gresty Road four days earlier. Without being at...
  • Steve Albini obituary

    Frontman for ‘noise rock’ bands Big Black and Shellac acclaimed for his production of albums by Nirvana, Pixies and PJ HarveySteve Albini, the musician and frontman of the alternative rock bands Big Black and Shellac, who has died from a heart attack aged 61, was more widely known for his huge list of credits as a producer, or – as he preferred to be called – recording engineer, of albums by independent artists from the mid-1980s to the present.Notable recordings bearing the Albini imprint...
  • The Many Lessons of Steve Albini

    To a certain kind of listener, it sometimes felt like he was the last honest musician in the industry. By Jeremy Gordon. black and white...