It should be so simple. The clue is in the name...or at least that is what one would have thought. Britpop. British. Pop. Boom. When the members of B.O.B.S (British Board of Scribblers) gathered at their annual convention at some point in the early nineteen-nineties to decide which musical scenes they would both form and [...]
I've gone and done it again. Taken delivery of a big old bundle of Britpop brilliance. Twenty-nine singles. The more observant among you will have noticed that not all of the singles pictured are Britpop...much as I love 'em there is no case to be made for including Daphne and Celeste into the Britpop hall [...]
By the time I reached thirty-five years old I was pretty much a spent force. I wasn't an old man and I was still in good health but the idea that I had anything new to say or new ways to say the things I had already said was just ridiculous. The best I could [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOfLzGvlJJo 16th of February, 1993. Inside the Alexandra Palace the great and the good of the music industry have gathered to drink champagne and dance all night, under electric candle light. It is the Brit Awards. Richard O'Brien is hosting. The list of winners from that night reveals just how out of touch the [...]
We are one week away from the release of the fifteenth studio album from James. Yup. Fifteenth. Let's put that into some sort of perspective before we go any further. The first of those albums was released in 1986...thirty two years ago. "Stutter" was a fragile, folky, flirtatious call from the fringes of the indie [...]
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews Chapter Eleven, Verse One) "Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil." (Isaiah Chapter One, Verse Sixteen) "Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the [...]
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 [...]
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