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141) Vegas
It’s 1992 and Annie Lennox solo career has taken off big time with Diva, so Dave Stewart is looking for something to do. Terry Hall had...
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Dec 4, 20232 min read
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140) The Fall - Code Selfish
Dave Bush has put in the work in the reserves and has come off the bench to make the first team, so we have a stable line up of the group...
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Nov 30, 20232 min read
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139) Associates - Sulk
Watching The Associates appearing on Top of The Pops (worth seeing for the chopsticks, banjos and Frank Spencer beret and coat) its kind...
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Nov 27, 20232 min read
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138) The Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique
The Monochrome Set have been around on and off for the better part of forty-five years and Strange Boutique was their first of a...
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Nov 23, 20232 min read
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137) Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art of Surfacing
Everyone knows Bob Geldof and probably has an opinion of him, and he usually has an opinion on most things and is a love/hate character....
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Nov 20, 20232 min read
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136) Belly - Star
Tanya Donnelly has been active since 1981 forming Throwing Muses with her half-sister, Kristin Hersh, also being involved with ex Pixie...
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Nov 16, 20232 min read
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135) Primitives - Lovely
We haven’t mentioned Peel or Janice in a while, listening to one of them one night they played a single called Thru’ the Flowers, its...
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Nov 13, 20232 min read
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134) Filthy Tongues - In these Dark Places
Review 111 was the excellent Goodbye Mr MacKenzie, but Rhona, John and Shirley had gone so Martin, Fin and Kelly needed a re-think. They...
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Nov 9, 20232 min read
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133) The Nightingales - Perish the Thought
This is the tenth album of The Nightingales career and maintains their usual high standard. They have been around since 1979, splitting...
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Nov 6, 20232 min read
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132) Doll By Doll - Remember
When asked to review this album I did know that I knew the name Jackie Leven, I remembered he released loads of solo albums and did...
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Nov 2, 20231 min read
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131) Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
You would imagine we will never see the Sex Pistols perform together again after Lydon lost the court case for the Pistol TV series and...
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Oct 30, 20232 min read
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130) The Fall - Shift-Work
Remember the last album with the unbelievable return of Martin Bramah, well he is away, him and Maria Schofield had started a...
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Oct 26, 20232 min read
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129) Trashcan Sinatras - I've Seen Everything
I have done a couple of reviews of Scottish bands that we all know but sadly the sales never matched how fondly we think of them in Love...
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Oct 23, 20232 min read
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128) Shack - HMS Fable
Shack was the band that were always going to break through with their next record, each one got rave reviews and then did bugger all...
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Oct 19, 20231 min read
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127) Magazine - Real Life
I recently read The Light Pours Out of Me the excellent biography of John McGeoch, I’d strongly recommend it. I saw McGeoch play with PIL...
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Oct 16, 20232 min read
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126) Spear of Destiny - One Eyed Jacks
Kirk Brandon has been making music for forty-five years and Spear of Destiny have released fifteen studio albums and he still tours to...
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Oct 12, 20231 min read
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125) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
A two-album career, one of them released after they already gone. However, there are numerous books, films and platitudes thrown Joy...
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Oct 9, 20232 min read
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124) Zones - Under Influence
Everyone has heard of Midge Ure. Mainly for Ultravox and Do They Know It’s Christmas. Big fans of his, not me I must confess, will know...
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Oct 5, 20232 min read
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123) The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses reuniting was great for someone like me who had not seen them at their height. A Saturday in Glasgow, the pubs were full...
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Oct 2, 20232 min read
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122) Slade - In Flame
By the time I got into music Slade’s heyday was long gone and I would just know them when their Christmas hit Merry Christmas Everybody...
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Sep 28, 20232 min read
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