I have Apple Music and it recommends new release to you based on what you have been listening to, sure Spotify is the same, and the other day it recommended the new single by The Darling Buds called Intruder. I was a big fan of bands with females in them back in the 80’s, all of We’ve Got A Fuzzbox & We’re Gonna Use it were in your face, Shirley and Rona had a detached coolness about them in Goodbye Mr MacKenzie, Tracy Tracy of The Primitives led the band with glamour and d

I watched the BBC2 tribute night to Paul Heaton. Why not, as I went and saw The Housemartins back in the day and bought a fair few Beautiful South albums and was interested in his debut solo album because a couple of Joe Strummer’s Mescaleros were involved. When he got back with Jacquie Abbott his profile seemed to rise again and I enjoyed a couple of their albums. I then read that sadly Jacqui had stepped away and he had brought in Rianne Downey. I then read her backstory (P

The Undertones will always have a place in musical history if they never did another concert or release another record. Their legacy was secured with John Peel naming their song Teenage Kicks his favourite ever song and even his gravestone has the words from this wonderful song “teenage dreams so hard to beat” etched on it. The original line up, minus vocalist Fergal Sharkey, still tour with Paul McLoone on vocals and if they play near you go along as you get all the hits a