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146) The Devlins - Drift
The Devlins, nope I had never heard of them. Drift was their debut album released back in 1993. I am twenty-two, remember the fountain of...
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Dec 21, 20232 min read
145) The Clash
We have reviewed the Pistols, Damned and The Stranglers debuts but now, in my opinion let’s get to the best UK punk debut as we have the...
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Dec 18, 20232 min read
144) Faust - So Far
Faust are part of the early 70’s experimentation artists from Germany like Neu! Can and Kraftwerk where electronic music and avant-garde...
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Dec 14, 20231 min read
143) That Petrol Emotion End of the Millennium Psychosis Blues
Sixteen months on from the injustice that Babble had not made them the biggest band in the UK That Petrol Emotion were ready to go again,...
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Dec 11, 20232 min read
142) Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Pulp were one of the UK’s biggest bands after Different Class and Jarvis Cocker had become even more famous after wiggling his bum at...
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Dec 7, 20232 min read
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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