We think of PJ Harvey as a solo artist, but actually originally PJ Harvey were a trio with Polly joined by Steve Vaughan, bass and Rob...

Album number three from The Fall arrived a year after Dragnet and with Paul Hanley coming in on drums and the band behind Smith more...

I was never a fan of French and Saunders. However, I used to video it, yes, I am that old, and sit with the fast forward button just in...

With the sad death of Andy Fletcher recently you must wonder if the forty-two-year career of Depeche Mode is over or maybe they can tempt...

The greatest album ever made. Not my words. Ian McCulloch has always been good for a quote and claims his tongue was firmly in his cheek...

Watching The Chart Show’s Indie Chart and four young women are a top ten staple with their single Xx Sex/Rules and Regulations in 1986....

I had decided I was too old for concerts but in 2019 at forty-eight I attended my first concert in eight years as Suede performed at...

A five-piece band emerged from Wales with this belter of a debut album in 1996. They delivered nine albums over a thirteen-year career....

We were not impressed with Paul, Stan, Norman, and Hugh as rock star names with The Housemartins. Step forward Lux Interior and Poison...

Paul, Stan, Norman, and Hugh are hardly the names you would expect of a top selling band of pop stars but in 1986 The Housemartins were...

Supergroups eh? Bowie’s Tin Machine is considered one of his worst moves and I would be amazed if anyone can listen to the whole album...

Released barely seven months after their debut Dragnet arrived with Mark E Smith now the only original member of the group and only Marc...

Warning this is one of those reviews that tells you nothing about the album, but we need history here, this band are important. Everybody...

It all starts with Peel. Whenever I decide to stop doing this, if at thirty or three hundred reviews he will be mentioned the most. There...

Here is the shock news in case you did not know. Radiohead are brilliant. When they first appeared, I thought they were an okay band and...

Pulp had started to be noticed with their album His ‘n’ Hers, but it was Different Class that made them an overnight success. That...

Susan Ballion first came to everyone’s attention when Bill Grundy made sleazy comments on the famous Sex Pistols television appearance...

I had always liked Teenage Fanclub, they were a known band but not huge, I would see bassist Gerard Love heading off the train to go and...

This brilliant band called The Clash that I had just heard of had sacked Mick Jones, I had timed that well. He had a new band. Second...

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions burned brightly and briefly in the mid eighties and were one of Scotland’s biggest bands at the time. They...