If you know nothing about music and were asked to name five UK bands after The Beatles & The Stones I reckon Queen, Spice Girls and...

My last line for The Unutterable was “A strong record then showing that sticking with the same band can lead to a bit of consistency, you...

Ah Gary Numan remember him? The odd clip would appear of him singing his big hits Are Friends Electric? and Cars and then it had been all...

Okay I know I have done it to death, but That Petrol Emotion should have been huge. Listen to their last album and then listen to Oasis...

I’m from Motherwell so Bellshill is two minutes from my house, so I know exactly where Sean Dickson comes from. He managed to get John...

Here we are all these years later Liam is having number one albums with John Squire and touring for the thirtieth anniversary of this...

What I have realised is its American bands I do not know. Reviews have been requested for Neutral Milk Hotel, Sloan,  mewithoutYou and...

America had the four biggest stars of the 80s, Madonna, Prince, Jacko, and Springsteen.   Three of them had all broken through in the UK...

The Cardiacs are one of those bands that I have heard of and had never listened to a note. Until I researched them online (yep, these...

Automatic for the People had taken them into the stadiums and Monster kept them there but there was a general feeling that Monster was...

Review 183 was The Beatles where I explained I don’t have the universal love for them that most do. As a result, I have never listened to...

Not for the first time when it looked all over Mr Smith had managed to bring it back round after the pretty excellent Marshall Suite....

I ran a poll on X/Facebook called #AlbumsDecade where people voted for their favourite record for each year, many regulars took part, and...

Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes have taken a bit of a kicking recently re Denise Johnson and Duffy and is a grim situation all round. I...

As we have established in my teens, I knew everything about music. Yes, everything and to be clear I thought Grant Lee Buffalo and...

When I went to college at sixteen, I met the first openly gay person I had ever met, like me he was only sixteen.   I got on with him...

People at work tell me that most of the bands I am into they have never heard of, and I think but how can you have not heard of them....

I went on holiday in April and was with my much better half in a very trendy designer clothes shop purchasing t shirts so my stunning...

God’s sake he had kept us waiting four years for this one he surely wouldn’t go that long again, would he? The same line up from Mind...

It’s no secret that Morrissey had struggled to fit in throughout his life until a certain Johnny Marr knocked on his door. The Smiths...