July 19, 2023 July 19, 2023REVIEW: blur – The Ballad Of DarrenWhilst fires of discord continue to rage from certain quarters of Manchester’s Oasis, Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and […]
October 15, 2019 October 15, 2019RETROSPECTIVE: The High Somewhere Soon 1990. The year Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Gazza showed his tears to the world and, most significantly, […]
June 19, 2019 June 19, 2019ANNIVERSARY LISTEN: Whiteout – Bite ItWhiteout are the Greenock born rockers who emerged at the same time as a 5 piece from Manchester who had […]
June 4, 2019 June 4, 2019Ian Broudie – Tales Told – Album reviewThe Lightening Seeds are scheduled to be headlining the Friday night of the 2019 Weekender in Minehead. Whilst we await […]
May 2, 2019 May 2, 2019The Stone Roses Debut Album Turns 30 Today!Today marks an important milestone in British music history, specifically independent home-grown talent. The Stone Roses 1989 debut album was […]
April 14, 2019 April 14, 2019ANNIVERSARY LISTEN: Cast – Mother Nature Calls Mother Nature Calls by Cast is one of the all-time classic ‘brit pop’ albums featuring legendary tracks that would […]
February 2, 2019 February 2, 2019ANNIVERSARY LISTEN: Ian Brown – Unfinished Monkey BusinessIan Brown released his debut solo album Unfinished Monkey Business on this day in 1998. The record followed Ian’s departure […]
January 31, 2019 January 31, 2019ANNIVERSARY LISTEN: Primal Scream – XTRMNTR20 years ago today we heard a noise breaking through the dawn, familiar to the chosen few, new and dangerous to […]
December 20, 2018 December 20, 2018REVIEW: The Stairs – Mexican RnB Deluxe Edition“Right in the Back of my mind” One album that has been crying out for someone to pick up the […]
April 23, 2018 April 23, 2018Ocean Colour Scene – ‘Moseley Shoals’ revisitedBritpop was quite a loose lazy journalistic coined phrase that neatly packaged a whole passage of music and time in […]
September 3, 2017 September 3, 2017Album review – Starsailor ‘All This Life’A re-energised Starsailor serve up melancholic melody in their first studio album in eight years. From first track to last, […]