The best debut album by a British band ever? Let's go again. The best debut album by a British band ever. "Please Please Me"? 14 tracks and 6 of them were other people's songs. Next. "The Rolling Stones"? 12 songs and 11 of them were other people's songs. Next. "The Kinks"? 14 songs and 8 [...]
After the moderate success of the "Leisure" era and the death of the scene that had thrust them into the spotlight it seemed as if Blur were destined to be no more than a Championship level indie band, a suspicion that was confirmed by the reception given to "Popscene". There was no failure in anything [...]
Hello pop pickers and welcome to another trip down memory lane. Forget your worries and cares about Brexit. Forget about the fact that Susan in your office has been looking at you funny whenever you go to the loo. Forget about the fact that your husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend is watching a lot of documentaries about polyamory...which may [...]
Blur have, over nearly thirty years, recorded eight studio albums...six of which have reached number one in the UK charts. In addition they have released over thirty singles, thirteen of which have made the top ten. Several of these recordings define the era they were released in and some actually changed British popular culture in [...]
Following on from our conversation about "Modern Life is Rubbish", Nick Amies and I continue to explore the albums and bands who defined the Britpop era with a look at the debut album from Suede. There can be little doubt that Suede were the band who kicked over the statues of grunge and cleared the [...]
Sunshine It is very easy to romanticise the past. Not that I could ever be accused of that. Ahem. Alright, fine...almost everything I write here is a love letter to a past that, probably, never existed. I'm not sorry. I am not writing history. I am writing my story. Like most everyone in the world [...]
The last time I was in the Wee Red Bar it was 1997. That was also the year that I first saw Geneva live at the V Festival. The Wee Red Bar hasn't changed. It is dark. atmospheric...filled with memories. Geneva haven't changed. Dark, atmospheric...filled with memories. There is no stage in the Wee Red [...]
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