Carter are one of those bands that seem to have been forgotten but as soon as you hear them, if you are of a certain age, you think, yep,...

In the latest transfer news Mr Smith has again moved the team around but this is one of his most bizarre ones. His marriage to Brix has...

Everyone has probably met someone famous and has either good memories or bad. Me and Marti Pellow didn’t get on funnily enough, but I...

Hai! Had been released by The Creatures in 2003 to good reviews and Siouxsie toured solo in 2004 but Budgie was still her drummer and...

Between 1979 and 2008 The Cure released thirteen studio albums, so one nearly every two years. They have not released one in fifteen...

Normally I have at least heard of the artist if I have not heard the album, but The Irrepressibles were a complete new one on me. A quick...

The Go-Betweens review of 16 Lovers Lane I mentioned a compilation tape made by a girl madly in love with me (the compilation tape bit is...

I was quite impressed when I heard Pretty in Pink by Psychedelic Furs. Catchy, strange singing and plenty of guitar hooks. Imagine being...

As regular readers know (as if I have regular readers) I’m from Glasgow, we have quite a thing for religion here, I don’t, I’m rare in...

Did I like Kate Bush in 1985? Debatable is probably the answer, the odd song, but I would not seek her out. It’s 1985, I’m fourteen we...

Regular readers (I know, let me pretend I have regular readers) will remember in the Love & Money review I mentioned going to the Queen...

No line up exits, big changes were coming but this was a different approach as Michael Clark was back and this was a collaboration with...

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...