When I was 7 years old I had a dream. A nightmare. I lived in a small town in West Lothian, halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. A council house. There was a toilet downstairs, a sitting room and a kitchen. Two bedrooms upstairs. In my dream I am standing in front of the mirror that [...]
It is nearly twenty years since the last album from My Life Story. A lot has happened since the year 2000. Even more has changed. Kevin Spacey won the best actor award at the 72nd Academy Awards. I doubt there will be a comeback for Kevin this year. The best selling single of the year [...]
Are you ready to be heartbroken? Or at least ready to have your heart broken and then pieced back together again? Of course not, how could you be? A new Salad album is on its way. Butterflies in your stomach? Of course you do. You're excited. Who wouldn't be. "I love Salad" you are thinking. [...]
"Talent borrows, genius steals." The heart wants what the heart wants. Sometimes the ears hear the things they want to hear. The great gift that lies at the core of The Supernaturals is that they have often managed to do borrow from all of the music they have loved, cherished, obsessed over and aspired to [...]
Back in February of last year I wrote an article about the wonders of Strangelove and I also interviewed singer and lyricist Patrick Duff about the band, his solo career and Disney soundtracks...that conversation remains one of my most treasured moments because, as I explained to Patrick at the time, during all the madness, in the [...]
Sacred hearts. It is 1993. I am twenty years old. Pressed against the barrier in front of the stage at the now defunct Plaza Ballroom in Glasgow waiting for Suede to arrive. First is the support act. Nobody really cares about the support act. Why would we? Why should we? How could we? Then she [...]
A piano plays in an empty room. Shimmering shadows. Then a mass, a mess, of drums and harmonica. Delta blues from the Home Counties. Southern comforts. This is the opening to "Well Well", the new album from Nigel Thomas who sings and writes songs; like Gerry Cinnamon or Ed Sheeran but, you know, good. The [...]
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