Eels had made a huge impression with their debut album so their record company must have been excited when the band delivered their second record. However, there was a problem lead man Mark Everett’s sister had committed suicide, his mum had terminal cancer and this brought up memories of him finding his father dead when he was just nineteen, they were not getting a party album. What they did get is sixteen songs delivered in under fifty minutes that showed the excellence of

So, @AdrianTudorDr asked me to review two records and first was The Housemartins, magic love them and listened many a time the other request was Oysterband, you know what’s coming, yep not got a clue. Usual read of the internet and they formed in 1976, so they have been around for the bare fifty years and I had no idea and they have released twenty four albums (they were previously known Oyster Ceilidh Band and Oyster Band) and their website is telling me that they have ret

I had certainly heard her voice as I was fifteen when Birthday came out and was on my voyage of discovery with music, and when I first heard it there was a “what the hell is that?” and you had to hear it again, It was no surprise that it made the number one spot in John Peel’s Festive Top fifty and The Sugarcubes followed it up with Hit a few years later, which was a welcome addition to the charts and although they split the following year in 1993, I had no idea the lead sing