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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
121) Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - The Love Album
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,...
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Sep 25, 20232 min read
120) The Fall - Extricate
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...
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Sep 21, 20232 min read
119) Everything But the Girl - Eden
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...
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Sep 18, 20232 min read
118) Siouxsie - Mantaray
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...
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Sep 14, 20232 min read
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