New Model Army would regularly appear on Top of the Pops, I would always like the song but would never buy anything by them. A band I...

Four bands that I love more than any other and I always hope for more. The Clash & The Fall I accept there is a no more with Strummer and...

It’s your first album so we can expect rough and ready, nothing accomplished as that will come through after years of honing your craft....

A Ghost is Born is Wilco’s follow up to their most successful album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and after the departure of Jay Bennett. Frontman...

No shock here I like Mark E Smith, some of the things he did made me laugh. He made, to my ears, some brilliant music but you hear...

I could write what I know about Mazzy Star on the back of a beer mat. It would say American band, that would be it. A quick look on the...

I have a younger sister and as regular readers will know I was an arse in my teenage years (partner may say all my years but let’s move...

Justine Frischmann now seems to be remembered for dumping Brett Anderson and becoming Damon Albarn’s girlfriend. This seems a bit unfair...

Some requests I have heard of the artist but never heard a note of their music but Benji Hughes is an artist I had never heard of full...

We all go to concerts and ignore the support band. I went to see Big Audio Dynamite at the Barrowlands, stood with my pint and recognised...

In 1988 I worked at Glasgow’s Garden Festival and listened to music on the way in and a really nice young lady I worked with offered to...

It’s 1982 and Happy Talk by Captain Sensible is number one, I am eleven and I am thinking this is rubbish, a novelty. He will not be...

Early 90’s and it’s the holiday to Kavos and then Tenerife. Drinking and dancing all night, in my case failing with women, lying by the...

Mark Hollis died in 2019. This is an artist who had not released an album in twenty-one years and who only released six albums in a...

Album number-eight, most bands dream of making one album, The Fall had another twenty-five to go. The same line up from Perverted By...

Paula Yates said on The Tube in December 1986 to watch Channel Four during the week as The The were premiering their new album. All as...

I always taped TOTP’s each song got a minute, unless it was Wet Wet Wet or Simply Red, to see if it was any good. Billy Bragg is on just...

I first came aware, like many I would assume, of Ultravox through Vienna. I thought it was okay and as each of their polished hits...

I have an inability to fully relax in the house. I can very rarely watch a film in one sitting and am quite often told to sit on my arse....

I first came aware of The Stranglers with Golden Brown. I thought it was okay, nothing more, nothing less. What I really loved was their...