Again I didn’t get into this one until late, but because I’m inqusitive I was always asking the likes of Andy Diagram and then later Martin Smith out of the Red Elastic Band who was also playing with ...

I’d seen a TV performance of Tim Buckley, he walked on and just played this incredible song, ‘Song To The Siren’, it blew me away. The first album I got was Happy Sad, and the playing on that – the ...

It’s when something gets you, isn’t it? You can’t put your finger on it, it just gets you in your gut. And that was me with The Pop Group. It was the same with Magazine, although as beautiful as it ...

When I joined Yorkie’s band Ho Ho Bacteria in 1978, I had the luxury of him brainwashing me with some of the finest albums around. Ranging from Cabaret Voltaire to Marlene Dietrich live in London. One ...

Tony Wilson had a cultural show, So It Goes, where he’d have bands from Manchester and all around the North West. I didn’t really watch it because that was my dad’s time to watch whatever he was ...

Polish experiementalists (Stara Rzeka, Innercity Ensemble, and Alameda 5) team up with South African trio Phelimuncasi in a burst of bubbling notes and sheer elation, finds Antonio Poscic The ...

Photo by Blythe Thomas When she was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2022 Grammys, Arooj Af... 0 comments Read » Baker's Dozen ...

Touring is not as lucrative as you might think. Are venues really taking 30%+ commission on merchandise? Artists have had enough. Sean Adams explores how attitudes are changing Above and beyond the ...

Photo by Jon Wilks Speaking to Martin Carthy about his favourite 13 records is a delight. Havin... 0 comments Read » Baker's Dozen ...

Photo by Will Spooner For Georgia Barnes, or as she’s better known, just Georgia, music has bee... 0 comments Read » Baker's Dozen ...

Aug Stone (with moral and technical assistance from Sophia Wyeth) talks to cult glam rock/punk/new wave survivor Martin Newell To say Martin Newell is prolific would be quite an understatement. You ...

CROUCHED IN THE CORNER of a back room in a semi somewhere in Prestwich, Mark Smith flips through one of several large stacks of records; stops; considers pulling out an album; then thinks the better ...