The Man Who…where did the time go?
23 years ago today a little-known band released what’s still their best album and changed my life. I was 11, I started
The great small town storybook
The Stereophonics dropped a new album recently, I hadn’t heard much pre-release, I just noticed it in my Spotify feed and thought
Kinda mainstream – not quite
“I love this song, a beautiful song. There’s a big reason I picked this, interviewers often come up with questions like ‘If
“Introvert”: The Mind-blowing Opening Track to Little Simz Fourth Album
Little Simz sprung back into the limelight on 21st April 2021 when she released the first single for her upcoming album Sometimes I
Tranquillity in Chaos: Easy Life at Truck Festival 2019
I adore the chaos of Truck Festival, held every year just half an hour from my home and sometimes named “the UK’s
“It’s All Good”: A Change of Perspective with Biggie Smalls
I was a middle-class teenager growing up in a small town in Oxfordshire, a position of absolute privilege 3,400 miles from Brooklyn,
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There’s nothing left
I’m at a point in my life where I’ve seen plenty of musical figures pass away, artists I’ve grown up with. In
Out of Mind
Living in Asia in the mid-2000s, most of my music was consumed through a tinny, tiny old MP3 player, little bigger
Maverick Jukebox
Edinburgh mavericks, Young Fathers formed after meeting at a hip-hop night while all three members were still in their teens. Alloysious Massaquoi,
Wizards Dressed as Punks
Television sprung from the mid-70s CBGB scene with contemporaries such as Talking Heads, Blondie, The Ramones, Suicide and The Dead Boys.
The party band
We close out the roaming organ of the seven minute version of Light my fire and move on to the second track,
How Chris de Burgh Reimagined the Nativity
On the first Christmas, the bright Star of Bethlehem guided travellers and wise men to the stable where Jesus Christ was born,
