Where’s Tonsberg?   I ask because if you know well done as I hadn’t a clue. It’s in Norway and seemingly Ramona’s Tea Party are one of...

So, if Buzzcocks had never existed Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley would still have been thanked by the people of Manchester as they...

As everyone knows with these world-famous reviews every album I receive as a request gets three listens, it’s the only fair way I decided...

I have mentioned I used to stick a blank tape on and record John Peel and would listen back the next day to see what nuggets he could...

Now this is a bit different this is a request where again I have no idea who this band are but straight away when reading on the internet...

Way back in the mists of time I reviewed PJ Harvey Dry ( https://www.albumsin200words.co.uk/post/21-pj-harvey-dry ), a wonderful debut...

Remember the old days when you flicked through the music press every week, between friends and people at college I probably saw NME,...

Pulp were huge and one of those rare breeds who not only stormed the charts, but the actual albums were good.   However, they say...

A week ago, I was praising Hugh Cornwell’s work rate on releasing his debut album in 1979 after four Stranglers albums in two years. Hugh...

Almost two years after Re-Mit The Fall return. There has been a well-received EP The Remainderer released in between and no member has...

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...