I reckon I got properly into music when I was about thirteen and was a bloody know it all. I remember coming home on the bus after just...

We all know the tragedy of Joy Division and how the three remaining members decided to continue with the addition of Gillian Gilbert....

Remember the Northside Review where I was in Kavos, we are back again. We lugged a ghetto blaster and CDs with us, no streaming in those...

I must be careful here as I know the love for Weller. I was too young for The Jam and The Style Council, apart from the odd single, were...

Heavy metal is huge but also niche. Watch Bad News or Spinal Tap, which although both excellent, are basically ridiculing the genre. I am...

I think I know ninety percent of the artists I am asked to review; I may not have heard the record, but I know the name. Can I review...

It’s 1987 and I am in London for a Hotel Management Convention, I have no idea why I was on this course, you had to train as a waiter and...

Get one hundred people to name a band for each letter of the alphabet of an 80’s bands that you have heard of but never heard a note and...

Usually a song with the lyric “baby, baby, baby, baby, baby I fell from the sky” is not going to be my type of song but when Love Removal...

The Fall return in 1988 so we obviously have a change in personnel, Simon Rogers will still work with the band but is no longer...

Bands can survive without their singer, Steve Diggle seems to be making a go of it without Pete Shelley in The Buzzcocks and Big Country...

I know this album is meant to be good, but I never liked the cover so never bothered, another educated decision. The album gained a cult...

The Clash Cut the Crap and BAD This is BAD were released within weeks of each other. Most were probably imagining huge sales for The...

I was worried about this one as I am not really a dance music hip hop person, I will have a listen but never really get it. First listen...

Blur vs Oasis, we all know Blur beat Oasis with the dreadful Country House, over the equally awful Roll With It. Both bands were at their...

There are bands that you can love or hate with a passion and some bands that do not move you either way. Eurythmics fall into that...

Thursday night and we are back in front of the television for TOTP’s. Shine On by the House of Love chimes out of the speakers, what a...

One of my partner’s favourite songs is The King of Rock n Roll and I always ask her who sang it and nine times out of ten she will say...

My mum mentioned that the guys from Inspiral Carpets were on Celebrity Gogglebox, phoned her back a few days later to say it’s Shaun and...

We say farewell to Karl Burns for this album, we will see him again, but it was time for Simon Wolstencroft to take his place behind the...