Released : 1982 Not every band from Sheffield – a heavily industrialised city in the neglected northern end of England … More
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Hi, my name is Andy & I live in Leeds, in northern England. I've been writing about music for more than ten years. My work outside of this blog is featured on Live4ever and Contact Music.
50 Best Songs of 2020 #47 Toots & The Maytals – Got To Be Tough
A fitting way to remember one of the best.
50 Best Songs of 2020 #48 Yard Act – Fixer Upper
Leeds post-post punk genius.
50 Best Songs 0f 2020 #49 The Streets ft. Oscar #Worldpeace- The Poison I Take Hoping You Will Suffer
The mix tape was a mixed bag, but this was a hint at former glories.
Kerbdog – S/T & On The Turn reissues review
The now infamous April 1993 edition of Select – now regarded as Britpop’s first clarion call – said it all … More
50 Best Songs of 2020 #50 Pet Shop Boys – Monkey Business
On which Neil & the other one came back in glorious fettle.
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #25 Pet Shop Boys – King’s Cross
Released: 1987 The 1980’s opened up a divide in Britain which owed much more to money than geography. As the … More
The Last Dinosaur – Wholeness review
For Jamie Cameron the experience of creating music goes way beyond the narrow confines of the act itself; as The … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #26 Talk Talk – Life’s What You Make It
Released : 1986 The outpouring of grief which the death of former Talk Talk singer Mark Hollis in 2019 was, … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #27 Scritti Politti – Absolute
Released : 1984 There’s a certain conceit to putting the year of release into an album’s title, but if Green … More
The Voice Of Unreason 