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....

A Ghost is Born is Wilco’s follow up to their most successful album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and after the departure of Jay Bennett. Frontman...

No shock here I like Mark E Smith, some of the things he did made me laugh. He made, to my ears, some brilliant music but you hear...

I could write what I know about Mazzy Star on the back of a beer mat. It would say American band, that would be it. A quick look on the...

I have a younger sister and as regular readers will know I was an arse in my teenage years (partner may say all my years but let’s move...

Justine Frischmann now seems to be remembered for dumping Brett Anderson and becoming Damon Albarn’s girlfriend. This seems a bit unfair...

Some requests I have heard of the artist but never heard a note of their music but Benji Hughes is an artist I had never heard of full...

We all go to concerts and ignore the support band. I went to see Big Audio Dynamite at the Barrowlands, stood with my pint and recognised...

In 1988 I worked at Glasgow’s Garden Festival and listened to music on the way in and a really nice young lady I worked with offered to...

It’s 1982 and Happy Talk by Captain Sensible is number one, I am eleven and I am thinking this is rubbish, a novelty. He will not be...