I am eleven in 1982, and music is something I Like, well I watch Top of the Pops. My late father’s records sit in a cupboard; my mother never plays them and although I have looked at them, I have no interest in listening to them and keep asking her why she didn’t just throw them away. Now as a fifty-five-year-old man I see she was a young woman in her early thirties grieving for the loss of her husband so she would have no desire to throw them away, they were part of him and

When Lily Allen first arrived in 2006 I was thirty five and although I didn’t mind her number one single Smile I certainly didn’t listen to the album as I was too old, I thought. One of the greats to me in music is Mick Jones and when I heard he was teaming up with her for a cover of one of his songs Straight to Hell (does that make it a cover?), I had to hear. Lily takes the lead but Mick is there on vocals and it doesn’t have the brooding intensity of the original but is e

Can you please review Ivy Apartment Life? No problem, thanks for the request. Mr Knowledgeable wants to ask one question is Ivy a band or a female solo artist?   Quick type on phone, a band, of course,  I thought so….   Brief history, Ivy were a three piece band featuring two multi-instrumentalists Andy Chase and Adam Schlesinger and singer Dominique Durand (Chase and Durand are now married) and between 1994 and 2012 released six albums.  Sadly, Schlesinger died of Covid in 2