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...

Every good band has a good drummer, if you don’t have the man at the back who can keep time then you are in a bit of trouble. House of...

I did not have a clue that White Lies had been so successful. It’s good to have your finger on the pulse when writing music reviews but...

I can’t deny that by the end of The Style Council I had stopped listening and their record company had had enough refusing to release...

When I spoke to Shirley Manson in Cathouse after a Goodbye Mr MacKenzie concert well over thirty years ago, I am not sure either of us...

I have arthritis in my left knee and a knackered back but think I am doing not bad for fifty-four years of age. However, I play on the...

Obviously I have been asked to review this but I did remember them from their singles and a quick trawl I find that two of them, David...

Mr Smith is now fifty so obviously we are entering calmer more relaxing times. Mark steps away from The Fall and makes an album called...

When you decide to enter world of music you have to decide how you want to be known.   Let’s have a look at a few: 1)     Mark E Smith –...

I wrote the Bollocks review and said we would never see the Pistols again. To be fair we won’t but Frank Carter stepping in for Lydon no...

I have gone back a few times and tried The Birthday Party, but I can just not get into them. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds the odd song would...

Big information, another enlightening moment from me. In case people don’t know for quite a considerable period many people bought U2...

December 1998 I am about to turn twenty-eight, divorced and renting a room paying a fortune in maintenance but I’ve got myself in this...