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 [...]
Category: Indie
Don’t Want Anything to Change – The Primitives
In March 1988 I was fifteen years old. My days were spent at school where books and learning were taking a distant second place to lust, love and longing for a girl in my class who had taken inspiration for her image from "Into the Groove" era Madonna. There were lace gloves, necklaces and crucifixes, [...]
Here is Unfenced Existence – Soda
The glitz and the glamour. The shimmer and the shine. The stars and the starlets. The sex and the drugs. The rock and the roll. Triumph. That's what we think of when we imagine the life of a rock 'n' roll band...a series of never ending highs...form a band, write a song, play a gig, [...]
Simply Thrilled Honey – Edwyn Collins and Orange Juice
Triumph and tragedy. Heart and soul. Punk attitude and pop tunes. Temptation and the Four Tops. Girls like you and boys like me. Falling and laughing. Hope and despair. L.O.V.E and love. Edwyn Collins was born in 1959 in Edinburgh. It's a beautiful city...did you know there's a castle? But it wasn't where Edwyn became [...]
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