Next review and it’s The Prisoners. Who are The Prisoners? Usual read of the internet and there we go James Taylor from The James Taylor...

I like(d) weird stuff and as we know was quite quick to slate anything because I was an arrogant arse. However, the odd pop song would...

When I thought I would start to write these amateur thirty second reads I asked for requests as I couldn’t subject people to my music, my...

Remember folks times these were tough for The Fall after Light User Syndrome, we had lost members and Mark was losing the plot, well now...

In 1999 I was still avidly searching the music press for anything and suddenly Flaming Lips were everywhere, I had heard of them, but...

Review ninety-nine looked at Echo & the Bunnymen Reverberation which is an album that has been consigned to history as Ian McCulloch was...

I used to record John Peel on a 90-minute tape and then listen back and if he played a song, I liked I copied it onto my playlist tapes...

Fiona Apple appeared in 1996 and won numerous praise and awards. I listened to her first album, Tidal. There was talent clearly but...

Everyone has had that moment when their parent has said “What’s that you are listening to?”  You respond and the parent replies “never...

Music biographies can be bland and not really tell you much more than you already know. Step forward Miki Berenyi with her autobiography...

I know the name, nothing more. I had a read online and found out he studied in Edinburgh, hope he had nights through in Glasgow, imagine...

I get what they did, I really do. I understand Lennon McCartney writing their own songs was a revelation and clearly George Harrison was...

Like many things in my life what I know about Wrens could be written on the back of a postage stamp. When I do my usual shake of the head...

We knew Dave Bush was for the off and sure enough he received his letter advising him he had been sacked. In came Julia Nagle, and this...

A band with nine studio albums to their name and record sales in excess of twenty million Radiohead are one of the most successful band...

It’s the mid 80’s I’m home from school fourteen or fifteen and remember if you have read any previous reviews the biggest expert on music...

The White Stripes were one of those bands that I could take or leave. I would hear something and like it but never felt compelled to buy...

Remember a year ago we had the debut album from House Of All. If you don’t then give it a go as it was the album of 2023. They have...

You speak to people of a similar age about music, and you may mention a band, or artist and they say they have heard of them but never...

The Manic arrived all over the music press and Richey Edwards was good for a quote. No one will forget the picture after he carved “4...