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...

I always avoided this album as the cover reminded me of the cartoon sketches from Monty Python but as it’s been requested I need to...

We are back watching Top of the Pops and a band are on who are going to need plenty of hits. There is no way they will be able to...

Puressence we are back in the territory of a band I know their name but have never heard a note. A bit of internet searching establishes...

In the mid to late 90’s I lived in Hyndland in Glasgow and was told that Belle & Sebastian practised in the parish church that was about...

Marc Riley gone and long-term manager Kay Carroll away as well, but the big news was that they had a new guitarist. An American Laura...

I used to subscribe to Uncut magazine, and they gave Deserter’s Songs album of the month. I was in record shop in Partick and there it...

We are on a band that I know the name again, but I have never heard a note of their music. A quick look on the internet shows they have...

Simple Minds hit the big time in 1985 with Don’t You Forget About Me. They had been slowly building up momentum but this took them into...

Melody Maker made Gene the Brightest Hope of 95 and with comparisons with The Smiths the band quickly found an audience. This was their...

My first ever purchase, their name stencilled onto my schoolbook, my much more knowledgeable friend informing me they had got rid of the...

I knew Richard Hawley had played with Pulp before becoming a solo artist but I recently listened to him on a podcast and found out he was...

Prince one of the few genuine pop starts who could do the lot, sing, write, dance, produce and play any instrument and in the 80’s...

Suzanne Vega is probably best known in the UK for her number two hit with DNA, Tom’s Diner. I remember the single Marlene On the Wall...

July 1996, I saw the reformed Sex Pistols on their Filthy Lucre tour at the SECC in Glasgow. SLF supported. Our main talking point from...

The same line up as Hex survived for this although sadly this is Marc Riley’s last album as him and Smith had run their course even...