Those people in punk bands jumping on the bandwagon to make a quick few quid. Hugh Cornwell was clearly not one of these people having...

If you read review 111 you would have seen, I was a bit of a fan of this band ( https://www.albumsin200words.co.uk/post/111-goodbye-mr-ma...

What I can tell you about Nick Drake:   1)     He’s died of an overdose over fifty years ago. 2)     He sold hardly any records in his...

After many years as a DJ in his adopted country of America Steve Jones is back now; his excellent autobiography was made into a TV...

Subhumans have been around since 1980, although they did split in 1985 and didn’t return until 1998 and have only released two albums...

If you attend Anfield, which I do on occasion when the miracle of a ticket happens, George Sephton, the Voice of Anfield plays music and...

I don’t mind Pearl Jam. They are not my normal type of band, and I wouldn’t be sure if I have heard all of their records but the ones I...

I always thought Wendy James knew what she was doing. She loved to provoke with her comments, go on Top of the Pops in stockings and...

Ah Interpol they have been around for about five years, haven’t they? I’m good on these things, checks internet, formed in 1997, where...

Album thirty is upon us and they have been going thirty-four years by this point and for the first time ever they have the same group for...

Twenty-one albums in a forty-two-year career and a one hundred and fifty million record sales. It’s fair to say Mr Springsteen has had a...

December 1988, I turned eighteen, I was single, this I know is the real big revelation of the review.   Basically, I have about ten mates...

Ska I am afraid I only know the mainstream, The Specials and Madness that’s about it, there’s no reason I have no feelings either way...

Echo & The Bunnymen were meant to be as big as U2. They sadly never were but are certainly a much better band (my opinion).   Their fifth...

Matt Johnson had sold himself to me and to many others with Soul Mining and Infected. He was a one-man band for these records calling on...

Sleater-Kinney have been around for thirty odd years (we will ignore their eight years break up)and have released eleven albums. We...

I remember The Lottery Numbers going to number one with this record back in 2023 and thinking they have come from nowhere. Obviously, I...

I was (am) a big fan of Big Audio Dynamite and quite often in interviews there would be a mention of Sigue Sigue Sputnik who Mick Jones...

Review 184 dealt with the band Lush and their record Lovelife ( https://www.albumsin200words.co.uk/post/184-lush-lovelife ) and mentioned...

Album twenty-nine arrives and we have a hat trick, yep same line up for the third record in a row, this is unheard of, Mark still clearly...