The Redskins – These Furious Flames! Live! 1985-86 review

The Redskins were one of those bands for whom an exclamation mark always felt it made sense. Having only released … More

The Darkness – Permission to Land..Again review

No that it’s really visible from the self-aware, irony free twenties, but there is a dusty corner of British music … More

For whatever reason, it wasn’t always necessarily important to add context to a Super Furry Animals album. Not that the … More

Released: 1993 Contextualising things is important. The Boo Radleys were signed to the anarchic Creation label in 1991 following their … More

Whilst some aspects of it as a decade are now hand gnawingly embarrassing and deserve to be forgotten, the nineteen … More

For the longest time the only way to get an American to understand where you were from if you said … More

Serendipity. At the point of being dropped by Atlantic after 1990’s Lovey sank without trace, Evan Dando had dissolved The … More

Martin Fry admits ABC knew exactly what they were doing when recording the Lexicon of Love in 1982. Speaking to … More

The recent closure of Oldham’s Coliseum Theatre after almost 140 years and the imminent opening of a second twenty thousand … More

Albums are served back up to a weary public these days on the flimsiest of premises, but here’s some which … More