100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #69 The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry

Released : 1979 All publicity is good publicity, at least if you’re trying to sell a new band with no … More

Fontaines DC – Skinty Fia review

You couldn’t put a finger on when it happened, but how did we become so attached to place? Rather than … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #75 Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark – Electricity

Released : 1979 It’s nice to know that, even in 1979 when the earth wasn’t baking itself to a crisp … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #77 XTC – Making Plans For Nigel

Released : 1979 Talking about his experience whilst on tour to Pete Paphides in 2004, XTC singer, songwriter and willing/unwilling … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 70’s #90 Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead

Released : 1979 1979: two groups are working in completely separate environments a hundred miles away from each other (a … More

Silverbacks – Archive Material review

Around in one format or another since the middle of last decade, Dublin based quintet Silverbacks consist of brothers Daniel … More

100 Greatest Tracks of the 70’s #94 The Human League – Being Boiled

Released : 1978 In 1977 the city of Sheffield, as has already been established, felt itself estranged from the phenomenon … More

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 … More

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 … More

The Lounge Society – Silk For The Starving EP review

The Calder Valley lies in the shadow of the Pennines, the often bleak hill chain which divides much of the … More