Passionate Friend, Treason and Reward had made Julian Cope a chart friendly star but after the Teardrops broke up the world was not ready for his solo albums with his first two records both selling poorly.   I knew the above singles but I was too young for the start of his solo career but thirty nine years ago (I looked it up 9/10/86 – frightening) I saw this very cool man all in leathers and shades climb up his microphone stand and perch himself above everyone as he belted o

Here we are in 1989 The Firm have taken Star Trekkin’ to number one and we were still to have the thrill of T’Pau China In Your Hand to come. The odd song like MARRS Pump Up The Volume would make Top of the Pops bearable, but the mainstream charts was not my thing.   Indie people like me were still missing The Smiths and we all loved Liz Fraser’s vocals and had been enthralled by a band called The Sugarcubes who had this singer called Bjork who has produced this magical singl

In the three and a half years I have done this I have been amazed by the knowledge of people on music. I try to do one of my own and a request each week, although the requests are nearly done. The ones I choose I think I know what I am talking about but usually someone will tell me something of which I am not aware. The requests I think, “ah that’s a brilliant choice,” and sometimes I think “I have no bloody idea.” I read up and yep usually someone tells me something I don’t