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...

I had my son for the night and took him back to my ex-wife, she had the television on and it was the news and there was Kirsty MacColl, I...

A remarkable life and career for Edwyn. First up indie credibility with his band Orange Juice on Postcard, then the big hit with Rip it...

I was browsing the iPlayer and saw Gimme Gimme Gimme was on there so stuck an episode on as used to make me laugh back in the day. During...

As you all know my country Scotland has given you the Bay City Rollers, The Krankies, Wet Wet Wet and my reviews. It’s also the place,...

Lunchtimes were always a walk around record shops. If you ever met me you would instantly know I have no interest in clothes and I have...

Remember we mentioned Bellshill in Review 217. For those of you who have not heard of Bellshill it’s a town in North Lanarkshire about...

I am too young for Led Zeppelin, they split up in December 1980, I was nine.   As I got into music, I first heard their name when someone...

Back in Black has sold over fifty million copies, that’s insane.   AC/DC are an institution and have been huge as long as I have been...

I worked with a guy whose family was from Donegal he was heavily into his Irish bands and artists, and we had many a discussion about...

Each Fall review for pretty much nearly the last three years has started with me telling you about the who has left between the last...

The Petrols had been on the rise with their first two albums but the differing styles on their third record End of The Millenium...

Ah Dave Gedge, the one-man industry of The Wedding Present nine albums released, festivals organised and has turned up regularly touring...

For Against, what do I know about them, a big fat nothing.   I was out for my usual evening walk and stuck this on as I walked about the...