On more than one occasion I have gone out to buy an album but come home with three, sometimes without the one I had initially intended to buy. I love shopping for them, trailing around record shops, looking at the cover and tracklisting on the way home and finally...
There seems a common consensus that last year wasn’t a classic for music and there is an element of truth in that although some great albums were released, examples of which can be found here. It would seem though that 2013 is already shaping up very nicely. New...
There are always a few albums that I get in to after I publish my end of the year list. This has once again been the case so in the interest of spreading the word about good music here are samples from Yeti Lane, The Amazing, Here We Go Magic and Pond. It’s a...
If there was to be an award for best album liner notes of 2012 then it would surely be won by one of my favourite songwriters Bob Lind. On the album Finding You Again, his first since 1971’s Since There Were Circles there is a short essay and the usual lyric...
Once again I will be dj’ing at the superb Scared To Dance club,the home of indiepop, new wave, sixties pop, post-punk, C86, lo-fi and DIY music in London, this time on New Years Eve. What a nice feeling it is not having to plan for that night other than to pick...
If there is a better bag/boot combination than this I have yet to see it. I’m not sure how much this would have cost in 1978, I only presume the cost is far greater now for any still doing the rounds. Deliciously stylish.
