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October 2023

  • ‘The way they could play with so little was really inspiring to me’ … (L-R) Tjinder Singh of Cornershop, Courtney Marie Andrews and Emily Haines of Metric.

    ‘I’ve been waiting all my life to shed light on them’: musicians on their unsung home-town heroes

    From gigs in sketchy Toronto buildings to Punjabi folk in Birmingham, musicians including Mogwai, Nakhane and Cornershop champion the local acts who never hit the big time

October 2022

  • The Beatles pose for an early group portrait backstage in 1962. Left to right: Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison.

    ‘My teenage hormones were raging!’: stars salute the Beatles’ Love Me Do at 60

    It confused Gene Simmons, inspired Judy Collins and changed one pop star’s mum’s haircut. Here, musicians recall the impact of the Beatles’ debut single

March 2020

  • Ben Ayers and  Tjinder Singh of Cornershop

    Cornershop: England Is a Garden review – liberation, celebration

  • Tjinder Singh photographed at an old petrol station on FIbbersley Road near his old home in Wednesfield, Wolverhampton

    Cornershop's Tjinder Singh: 'My dad said, 'They’ll not always want you here'. That stuck'

September 2016

  • CORNERSHOP - 2002 Mandatory Credit: Photo by Rex Features ( 378806d ) TIJINDER SINGH AND BEN AYERS OF CORNERSHOP CORNERSHOP - 2002

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: the forgotten follow-ups

    Cornershop, Lou Reed and Jah Wobble make our reader’s playlist of forgotten follow-up songs that didn’t quite bother the charts

September 2015

  • Chvrches

    Playlists to live by: musicians choose soundtracks to their favourite pastimes

    For every activity, there’s a song to speed the time or sweeten the moment – we asked Chvrches, Mercury Rev, Beirut and more to pick their top tunes

May 2012

  • Cornershop

    60 years of No 1 singles
    The best No 1 records: Cornershop – Brimful of Asha

    Malik Meer: 1998: Fatboy Slim's big-beat makeover unexpectedly took the indie underdogs and their puzzling lyrics to No 1

June 2011

  • New music
    New music: Cornershop – What Did The Hippie Have in His Bag?

    Michael Cragg: The ever-inventive Cornershop engage in child's play – but in a good way

March 2011

  • Cornershop featuring Bubbley Kaur: Cornershop and the Double-O Groove Of – review

    Gareth Grundy enjoys another gem from one of Britain most charmingly idiosyncratic bands

February 2011

  • Cornershop, Ben Ayres (left) and Tjinder Singh, with Bubbley Kaur.

    Cornershop on their new album, six years in the making

    Cornershop never knowing make the same record twice. Sure enough, their latest mixes Punjabi folk with lo-fi hip-hop. John Lewis hears how it happened
  • Paul Morley's showing off ...
    ... Cornershop

    Paul Morley asks Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres of Cornershop how the Beatles influenced their sound

  • Paul Morley's showing off ...
    Cornershop perform Norwegian Wood by the Beatles

    Brimful of Asha stars Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres perform their cover version of a Beatles classic

  • Paul Morley's showing off ...
    Paul Morley and Cornershop on the Beatles

    Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres of Cornershop tell Paul Morley what made the Beatles so inspirational and wonder if they'll ever be bettered

July 2009

  • Cornershop

    Jazz Cafe, London
    After seven years, they're back – and they're brimful of fun, says Ian Gittins

  • Cornershop, Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast

    A happy march through several decades of rock, with only a passing nod to modernity, says Hermione Hoby

    • Cornershop: Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast

    • Pop review: Cornershop, Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast

    • Still on the 45

July 2004

  • Home entertainment
    Brimful of albums

    Cornershop's Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres like nothing better than rummaging through records in charity shop, which is why piles of them fill every inch of Tjinder's studio.

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