She told me that she liked Cud. I had never heard of Cud. I told her I liked them too. I went out that weekend and bought "Leggy Mambo" and "Elvis Belt". I had to get the bus to Glasgow Buchanan Street bus station then walk to Glasgow Central train station to get the train [...]
In March 1988 I was fifteen years old. My days were spent at school where books and learning were taking a distant second place to lust, love and longing for a girl in my class who had taken inspiration for her image from "Into the Groove" era Madonna. There were lace gloves, necklaces and crucifixes, [...]
Phil Collins has voted Conservative. Ian Curtis voted Conservative. Geri Halliwell praised Margaret Thatcher. Spandau Ballet frontman Tony Hadley is a Tory. Nobody cares. Not really. Nobody has ever suggested that you shouldn't listen to their music because of their political leanings...not real people in the real world, maybe a few of the more, um, [...]
There are few things in life that bring quite as much pleasure, so much happiness and such a jolt to your heart as finding records you once cherished and then discarded because you thought an mp3 was more convenient. As if music should be convenient. Music should be almost anything but convenient. It should be [...]
***I didn't attend this show. This review is constructed entirely around the television broadcast. Unlike some "real" journalists I'm being honest!*** You know Liam Gallagher right? Lead singer with the biggest British band since...well, pick a date. Style icon. Mouth. Legend. Inspiration. His entrance to the stage here is familiar to those who have seen [...]
I have a feeling that the end has arrived. When Morrissey landed into the public's consciousness he did so with no little charm and a fair amount of style. He was a charming man, a handsome devil, imploring us to accept ourselves, flinging Oscar Wilde and gladioli at us with gay abandon. Then he became [...]
I had arrived at the University of Paisley in 1993 expecting a kind of "Brideshead Revisited" affair; foppish boys, eccentrics, erudite and intellectual young women, social events involving the arts and I had fleetingly considered arriving for my first tutorial in thos pin-striped pyjamas that men wore in the the 1940's. I had quickly [...]
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