Released : 1978 In 1977 the city of Sheffield, as has already been established, felt itself estranged from the phenomenon…
Yard Act – The Overload review
The last thing you want to be as an artist is owned by one of your songs. When Yard Act…
Bonobo – Fragments review
Whatever it happens to be called, music that makes human beings dance is best experienced heard from trigger points which…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #95 Stiff Little Fingers – Alternative Ulster
Released : 1978 A recipe for punk: take three dollops of phlegm, add some youth, stir in a bit of…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #96 New York Dolls – Personality Crisis
Released : 1973 Crawling out of Lower Manhattan’s East Side when the word bohemian didn’t even begin to cover it’s…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #97 The Temptations – Ball of Confusion (That’s What The World Is Today)
Released: 1970 “Segregation, determination, demonstration, integration” went one of the lines in Motown supergroup The Temptations first single of the…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #98 Cabaret Voltaire – Nag Nag Nag
Released: 1979 Cabaret Voltaire were from Sheffield, a place which had been a relative musical backwater (unless you count Joe…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #99 Althea & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking
Released : 1977 Britain’s love of reggae – a sound first imported by Jamaican immigrants in the fifties and sixties…
The Jazz Butcher – Dr. Cholmondley Repents review
Neil Taylor’s book ‘C-86 And All That – The Creation of Indie In Difficult Times’ may lack the expansive prose…
100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #100 The Ruts – Babylon’s Burning
Released: 1979 John Lydon’s infamous leaving jab on a San Franciso stage was unequivocally about the Sex Pistols, but punk’s…
The Voice Of Unreason 