If you live in the UK and are of a certain age you will remember a terrible lunchtime programme on BBC called Pebble Mill. I must have...

The fifth album arrives and according to testaments back then Smith was claiming this was The Fall’s last album. I cannot see that as...

Whether you like his music or not you have to admire Julian Cope. He has ploughed his own field for years releasing albums through his...

I was sent a DM asking me to review this album, I had to respond and admit I had never heard of Kae and was told it was an acquired...

So, we are back with John Peel and Janice Long. They were both essential listening back in the day, last Christmas was certainly a wee...

Tracey from California was working with guitarist Mike Jones and phoned her sister Melisa to fly over to the UK. Madness had split up in...

At nineteen I went to a record fair with a young lady. She bought Denise LaSalle My Toot Toot, and I bought a BAD bootleg of a concert I...

One year on from one of the best debuts ever That Petrol Emotion returned with Babble. This was there moment. In Glasgow I bored people...

In the late 80’s early 90’s my mates and I used to go to the QM University in Glasgow as the beer was cheap and we could dance with girls...

Emerging from Dublin A House released five albums that sadly never dented the UK album charts yet are fondly remembered. Not every great...

I have just finished Nige Tassell’s excellent book Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids? (get it as a Christmas present its fascinating)...

So, the site is meant to be about albums and many Fall fans debate whether this is The Fall’s fourth album. It was originally released on...

Lawrence thinks he should have been a star, he has released sixteen albums in a career that has now been going for forty years and is...

School, 1985 and I asked a guy in my class how was the Mary Chain last night his response of brilliant and they were only on for twenty...

I read an interview with Jools Holland. I was no fan of his big band, but I had always liked Squeeze, The Tube and occasionally someone...

Bob Mould had enjoyed cult success and respectability with a trio called Husker Du, I am sure everyone has heard of them and if by a...

The Chart Show ran on STV from 86 to 98 and would do a specialist chart. The Indie Chart had at Number One The Trumpton Riots by Half Man...

Strummer was lost after The Clash split up, realising the huge mistake in sacking Mick Jones he begged him to come back but Mick was off...

Review number nine of That Petrol Emotion Manic Pop Thrill had me gushing over the excellence of band who, in my opinion, were one of the...

We all have done it. You hear of a band. You read the reviews, you think I must listen to them, they sound like my sort of band. Nearly...