It Starts With a Birthstone...

  The Sound of American Faulure. It's a trope. A broad slope. Genrally heavily unfluenced by Pavement these days. But why should I car. ...

  An astonishing 25 pges/ Hell captures something. The loose , wanton rebelliousness of adoesence. The teenage years and how they are a defi...

  Northern Ireland's  Two Door Cinema Club produce dull generic guitar work outs that make reinventing the wheel sound like a very, very...

  An album apart. Even from Steely Dan. A glorious exercise in nostalgia and State of the Art production values. Takeing us back to the days...

                                                                                 'All the angels are dreaming of me !' Sun comes up...

  He was saying let him out of here before he was even born. Or so he'd have us believe. I read this a few years aago and I'm partia...

  Urgent, ungaainly stuff from 2005. They must be someone's favourite band. They're certainly not mine. 

  Oh no! Not the fucking Cocteau Twins again! That's the last thing I need.

                                 'a man hears what he wants to hear and disgregards the rest...'    People don't always listen ...

 

  This us a damned good listen for a Sunday Morning. From 1972.

  Power, Corruption & Lies will always remind me of David Laurence. A strange, slightly confused but likeable and chatty and interesting...

 ' I bought myself a birdfeeder. Because I'm working on being kinder.' Blush . By There's a Tuesday. On a Sunday. Well you c...

  I generally keep a distance from Judas Priest records. There are many and I would maintain, highly valid reasons for this stance I hate gu...

  This us a fierce, jagged, horny, conflicted album. The Attraqctions are firing on all cylinders. A Punk Byrds with swirling Steve Nieve or...

 'I'm a hero like Robert Di Niro.'  I wake up in Canterbury. Back with my elderly parents. A couple of weeks down here and in Lo...

 

 

    An anecdote. Round about the mid-Eighties the place to go if you wanted to see Indie, Goth or Rock and Roll combos and lived in South We...

                                                                                           ' When I was younger. Younger than before....

  One of Rock's most steadfasstly innovative and commercially dicey ensembles.

  The Redskins were an interesting anomaly. A Trotskyite skinhead band who acheived remarkable success. Particulatly in 1985. The live revie...

  An incredibly untense and dramatic record. Labelled Goth, Much to the band;s displeasure, But it was certainly Gothic.

  Thursday's Bells . The first track from Which Direction Goes The Beam the second album from Index For Working Music. It's  wired ...

  Free swinging Jazz Folk.

  Susan Williams, also Stephen Wells or Swells, was a radical Marxist, a very funny men and one of the best writers on The NME in the Eighti...

  It's Little Richard isn't it? You know what it sounds like..

 

  Every morning I get up and listen to a record all the way through. My bath runs and the sun rises and I sit at my desk with a cup of tea, ...

  'He thought he was the King of America.' Costello was in his element at the time. He always had songs dripping from him but this w...

  The Golden Age of Hip Hop

  Budgies in Rock. Budgie from the Banshees. Budgies on Rain Parade and Perdition albums.. Next week The Cockatoo Twins. Another week in Thr...

  I didn't know very much in 1983. I probably still don't now. But I'd certainly never heard anything like  Swordfishtrombones. ...

  Time for the Melbourne Conveyor Belt again. Ball Park Music a five piece bands. Four guys and a gal. Love Life . An album that's Summe...

 

  Intensity and vigour, But not to me quite the pachage to persuade that they should have been as critically respected as Joy Division or as...

  The Jesus & Maary Chain decided they din't want to implode on a falling star or die in a car crash. They decided they wanted to wr...

  A fanstastic discovery with which to set sail into the next week. One of those records that if it didn't exist you would feel almost d...

  The centre pages of this weeks NME are guven over to a two page interview with rising tennis star Pat Cash . He gets two pages. As much as...

  A late-ish Gabriel record. Largely for those with a prior investment. Though It certainly has its moments, The record though is quite imit...

  Louie, Louie, Lou !

  Robert Lloyd is not your average Rock & Roll figure to put it mildly. They are forbears and paralells. Most obviously Captain Beefhear...

                           The legendary Terry Southern does a turn on the latest Waterboys record.

  'a smartly conceived brilliantly excuted musical narrative'.

  ' Fans of English letters and lore will love this. Herein find the Grail legend transmuted to the groves of academe on the wing, the w...

  I'm sorry. I'm already prejudiced. I don't care for George Michael's music. I never have. I find his posthumous ubiqity ra...

  'history repeats the same conceits...' When I was seventeen I saw Elvis Costello and Cait O'Riordan in W.H.Smith's in Rich...

  I'm waking with Life Death & Dennis Hopper on my playlist. A couple of very important people  from my life on my mind. One of whom...

                                                       Another opportunity to post Unrest

  Concsiousness.