After the cryptic messages. After the teasing. After the seven year itch from his defenestration. After the yearning, the longing and the praying. He will return. Today Martin Rossiter, with a little (maybe more than a little) help from his friends at Star Shaped, has announced that he will return for one final time [...]
"A "hate" song about the terrible nights out, which we were too poor to have at the time..." Emotional rescue. Pop music, at its very finest, rescues the damaged from the dreary and drags them to something approaching delirium. It can do that with a riff that rattles bones, a melody that makes you melt, [...]
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 [...]
"It'll be funny...even if it isn't" Would you rather be a leech or a shed? Tricky. Abba or Shabba? Tough. What the Hell is Babba? All of these questions and more are answered across an hour in the company of a man who, for at least the duration of the Festival, will be known as [...]
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 [...]
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