"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, [...]
Like lots of other people I use Spotify. In an ideal world I would have a Sony Walkman with those foam headphones and a bag of compilation tapes to listen to as I gaily meander around the cobbled streets of Edinburgh. This, in case you hadn't noticed, is not an ideal world. For a start [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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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