You would have needed to be living in a cave in 1986 to avoid Talk Talk's 'Life's What You Make It', but, that single aside, the band managed to miss my radar t...
I’d been waiting a while for this. My only previous (non) acquaintance with Mali’s finest came after a disappointing set from Unknown Mortal Orchestra at Green...
Each August, deep in the beautiful Brecon hills, something wonderful stirs. The Green Man Festival, now fourteen years old, is not only surviving but flourishi...
I’ve never really been able to make up my mind about Tony Wilson. For sure, his heart was always essentially in the right place, and, speaking as a Mancunian, h...
As Taylor's rather unimpressive CV seemed to only include a stint with prog/blues outfit The Edgar Broughton Band, his eponymous album arrived unheralded and p...
Jellyfish's career was all about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Their painfully short two album span came when grunge had taken a somewhat angst-ri...
Nelson had made some vaguely engaging music in the mid seventies in his guise as leading light of Be Bop Deluxe, but punk arrived and consigned his brand of ang...
It will have shocked nobody in the music business - and precious few people outside of it - when it was recently announced that the New Musical Express is set t...
