I would imagine many people who read these reviews are more fans of alternative music than the likes of Westlife, Boyzone and Wet Wet Wet. If people who like the same sort of music as me had to name their one hundred favourite music stars and we added up the votes I have a feeling this band may appear and they have not released any new music since 2009. Since Lux Interior’s sad death that year his partner in life, and in The Cramps, Poison Ivy retired from public life and s

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