Well, here we are again. I'm not going to make any rash promises about hourly updates on the blog, suffice to say that entry by entry,...

Brace yourself, here comes the tiresome Velvet Underground analogy… Bark Psychosis were never blessed (or burdened, if you're that wa...

I reviewed the rather lovely new Wreckless Eric album for an online music thing and it didn't get used. Shame, as it's a fine rec...

The Rolling Stones had been together for 37 years in 1999. To celebrate, they undertook the “No Security” tour, playing over 40 shows in No...

Well there goes 2017, nearly. Personally, I've had a great year of listening to new music after a few years of truding wearily throug...

(A little context - I wrote this for a magazine called "Music Geeks" which never actually got published - so here it is) ...

31 st August 1994. I’d blagged some tickets to see a fairly new artist play at a little club in the centre of Birmingham. I seem to reme...