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...

We have rightly praised Super Furry Animals way back in October 2023 with their excellent debut Fuzzy Logic Released barely fifteen...

So, in this long going soap opera after the last episode called Levitate the lead man Mark E Smith is in a bit of trouble with the drink...

We have already celebrated the wonderful Terry Hall when we reviewed The Colourfield album Virgins and Philistines (Review 86 if anyone...

Dave Grohl left the drumkit for the guitar after a tragedy in his band. He was not the first musician to do this. Rock Lobster and Planet...

I am aware of Leonard Cohen but all I know is he went into a monastery and that he wrote Hallelujah oh and sadly he is no longer with us....

We usually despair of supergroups. The Smile have bucked the trend and years earlier Electronic certainly tried. Johnny Marr had moved...

Maximo Park are one of those bands that seem to have always been around but never really broken through. Usual read on the internet...