We continue our exploration of the greatest debut albums by Britpop bands with numbers 18, 17 and 16...an unholy, maybe unheard, trinity of calling cards from bands who shoulda been contenders. Elcka - Rubbernecking (1997) Alright. Let's deal with it. Yes. You are right. This might well be the worst cover for an album in [...]
Star Shaped Festival 2019 is a lot closer than you think. You may not have bought your tickets yet. Don't worry. I understand. Auntie Mabel has her birthday coming up. Father's Day is just around the corner. You're saving up for that lamp from IKEA. MOT looming. I hear you. But... Life is cruel and [...]
Even as I write this I am filled with feelings of regret and doubt. This is an album that should be in the top twenty albums in British pop music history. "Here he goes again." Maybe. I know...it's all hyperbole and exaggeration 'round are way. But that is what great music should do to you...make [...]
The end has come for Jeremy Kyle. Or at least the end has come for his early morning circus of misery and pain. Researchers who vetted possible guests by asking them to answer questions about their medical history, including which medications they were, or had, been taking in order to wheedle out how mentally unstable [...]
I've been a mess of late... Health problems...physical and mental. Burn out at work. A invisible weight pushing me down...down...down... Salvation can come from unusual sources. Sunlight bathes the cobbles of the Cowgate as I wend my way to the Mash House to bend the knee and doff my cap to Kiwi jazz enthusiasts [...]
I have to make a few things clear at the outset... I'm not a social justice warrior...but I do care about justice. I'm not a snowflake...but I don't want to hurt anyone. I don't do virtue signalling...but I try to be virtuous. I'm reluctant to call myself a feminist for fear of defining that in [...]
"Misery loves me, but I don't love her" sings Elizabeth Stokes on the opening track on the debut album from The Beths, "Future Me Hates Me" and, in that one line, she issues a clarion call to the grotesquely lonely...or to people like me; grotesque and lonely. It is the sort of line that [...]
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