Usually a song with the lyric “baby, baby, baby, baby, baby I fell from the sky” is not going to be my type of song but when Love Removal...

The Fall return in 1988 so we obviously have a change in personnel, Simon Rogers will still work with the band but is no longer...

Bands can survive without their singer, Steve Diggle seems to be making a go of it without Pete Shelley in The Buzzcocks and Big Country...

I know this album is meant to be good, but I never liked the cover so never bothered, another educated decision. The album gained a cult...

The Clash Cut the Crap and BAD This is BAD were released within weeks of each other. Most were probably imagining huge sales for The...

I was worried about this one as I am not really a dance music hip hop person, I will have a listen but never really get it. First listen...

Blur vs Oasis, we all know Blur beat Oasis with the dreadful Country House, over the equally awful Roll With It. Both bands were at their...

There are bands that you can love or hate with a passion and some bands that do not move you either way. Eurythmics fall into that...

Thursday night and we are back in front of the television for TOTP’s. Shine On by the House of Love chimes out of the speakers, what a...

One of my partner’s favourite songs is The King of Rock n Roll and I always ask her who sang it and nine times out of ten she will say...

My mum mentioned that the guys from Inspiral Carpets were on Celebrity Gogglebox, phoned her back a few days later to say it’s Shaun and...

We say farewell to Karl Burns for this album, we will see him again, but it was time for Simon Wolstencroft to take his place behind the...

I’m nine and my father is ill, unknown to me terminally ill, and he sadly died in 1980. I suddenly had to grow up as my mum was a young...

My friend is a huge Coldplay fan, she says I’m a music snob when I turn my nose up at them, she is right I am. She went to see them at...

If at first you don’t succeed try, try again. I am not talking about my average reviews, maybe I should, I am talking about Wayne Hussey....

Sadly, Terry Hall died in December at a youthful age of sixty-three. There were rightly major tributes throughout the media. Terry...

June 1986, I went into Glasgow to buy this magnificent album. The man in front asked if I was going to see them at the Barrowlands. I...

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....