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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.

Beach Comber – Parting Cuts review

@Rory_Friers can normally be heard as part of Irish post rock quartet And So I Watch You From Afar, but for his sister’s wedding he went solo to come up with a collection of songs written to share some happiness with everyone.

And So I Watch You From Afar, Beach Comber Parting Cuts, Lockdown, Rory Friers

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #64 Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message

Released : 1982 Anybody who ever tells you crime doesn’t pay should take some time out to speak with Joseph … More

#Rap, 100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Hip-Hop, The Message

BC Camplight – Shortly After Takeoff review

Singer songwriter gets deported, writes album about it, loses father, then records even better album only to release it in the middle of a global pandemic. Thows away rabbit’s foot.

BC Camplight Shortly After Takeoff, Brian Christinzio

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #65 Celtic Frost – Into The Crypts of Rays

Released : 1984 People often refer to the exportation of soccer violence to the rest of the world as the … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Black Metal, Celtic Frost, Into The Crypts of Rays, Thrash Metal, Tom Warrior

100 Greatest Songs of the 1980’s #66 EPMD – Strictly Business

Released: 1988 EPMD – short for Errick and Parrish Making Dollars  – may have ridden the rap “Craze” as the … More

#Rap, 100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Bob Marley, EPMD, Hip-Hop, Strictly Business

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #67 Joe Smooth – Promised Land

Released : 1987 (US) They were only there if you looked for them, but there were some discernible straight lines … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Chicago House, House, Joe Smooth, Promised Land

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #68 Fine Young Cannibals – Funny How Love Is

Released : 1985 Following on from the disintegration of The Beat, in search of a new singer Andy Cox and … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Fine Young Cannibals, Funny How Love Is, Roland Gift

Other Lives – For Their Love review

Portland based trio create baroque folk minor classic: must hear album for fans of The National and Fleet Foxes.

All American Rejects, Jesse Tabish, Other Lives, Other Lives For Their Love review

100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s #69 Primal Scream – Velocity Girl

Released : 1986 There were fewer more pronounced transformations in rock than the one which teleported Primal Scream from the … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, Bobby Gillespie, C86, Indie, Primal Scream, Velocity Girl

Pet Shop Boys – Actually review

The retro series continues with The Pet Shop Boys essays about love and capitalism, Actually.

Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys Actually

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