I’m very late in posting this but I was just looking at some of my youtube uploads and re-found a video from 2016 of The Beat from the summer of 2016 where the band, fronted […]
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Record Store Day Picks – 1
Due to the global pandemic RSD 2020 was put on hold and re-designed so that instead of a single day there will be three ‘Drops’ over a period of three months begining in August. From […]
Best Albums of 1967
1967 was probabaly the greatest year ever, mainly because it was the year I came into this world. As a result of being 0 years old I don’t remember any of these at the time […]
Top 40 Joni Mitchell Songs
Quite why I start these almost impossible lists is something I probably need to speak quite earnestly to a therapist about, however, here I am, doing it again. As always it is just my opinion […]
The Tinned PIlchards
For a brief period in the 1980’s one band exploded onto the scene like a comet hitting the planet, only to disappear as quickly as they appeared. That band was The Tinned Pilchards, since written […]
Best Albums of 2010
Here we are again with one of those best of lists that I do, they take ages, very few people read them and still I don’t care, it has become an obsession to try and […]
2:54 – 2.54
I saw this album on CD in a charity shop and picked it up as part of a 3 for £1 deal. I was intrigued by the complete lack of information, I wasn’t sure if […]
Milano – Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts
At the same time I bought this incredibly cheaply: Wild – Streets Of Laredo, I also picked up Milano by Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts cheaply. It was on sale for £8 and I took […]
What’s going on?
I’ve been away for a little while in Hong Kong. I went looking for a couple of record shops but they dont exist anymore so I gave up and just enjoyed the place. I arrived […]
Dead Girl
I was tootling around on the internet and found a song I recorded years ago on a site I’d forgotten about. I used to write and record a lot of music, enough that I was […]
Rosalia – El Mal Querer
This was one of my albums of 2018, though I’d never mentioned it before then. There’s actually a lot of albums that it takes me while to get around to mentioning, some going back several […]
Best albums of 1983
I was 16 in 1983 and, to be honest, it wasn’t a great year in music for me. Choosing 30 albums for this list was difficult, not because of what to include, but actually finding […]
Legacy 7″ Box – 6
The Beat – Hands Off She’s Mine/Twist and CrawlGo-Feet Records FEET 11980 UK The first time I heard The Beat was at a fun fair in Didcot, on the site of where the football club used […]
Top 50 Albums of 1976
Here we are, back in 1976, a year in which I celebrated my 9th Birthday and also the year that Apple Computer Company was formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the CN tower in […]
David Sylvian – 4 Re-Releases
Tattooed across my forehead is the word ‘Sucker‘. Or at least it should be for I most certainty am one. I had absolutely no intention of buying any of the 4 albums I bought at […]
Best Albums of 1981 – Full List
1981 was a strange year in music for me. I had was coming out of a rock only phase and embracing some of the music I liked but wouldn’t admit that I liked. Below is […]
Viagogo
My good lady wife wanted to go to a gig, this is a rarity, so I endeavoured to get some tickets, unfortunately they were sold out, however, there were tickets available from secondary sellers. The […]
Jack White – Lazeretto
This was released in 2014, so, yes, I’m 4 years late to the party, but at least I turned up. In 1799, after one-tenth of the population of Philadelphia perished with yellow fever six years […]
