"Now That's What I Call Music..." reached its centenary this year. Nobody really cared. In the era of Spotify, Deezer, iTunes and YouTube the compilation album is largely redundant...I'm not sure that anyone other than sales reps and desperate middle-aged children on Father's Day morning actually buys them any longer. I say this, of course, [...]
The first time I heard about Cornershop was when they burned an image of Morrissey outside of his record company offices in London at the height of the "Flying the Flag..." controversy that engulfed, and very nearly extinguished, his career in the early 1990's. At the time I was a disciple of Morrissey, more cult [...]
When I attended the Edinburgh International Book Festival appearance from Brett Anderson a few weeks ago he discussed the early, formative moments of Suede and how they had placed an ad in the music press looking for a guitarist...an advert that brought two applicants, one from Ken and another from Bernard Butler. I wonder what [...]
I had just turned twenty-one. I was a student. I was convinced that what had started as a couple of great albums by blur and Suede was now a full blown cultural phenomenom on a par with the Mods in the sixties. I was entering the second year of my degree course at the "University" [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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