This week on the RW/FF round-up: many of the legendary musicians who soundtracked my youth seem to be returning at...
Typically socially awkward, with a little haphazardness on stage, Graham Coxon fans were aptly entertained in London’s Roundhouse venue...
At long last, one of popular music’s greatest innovators of the last two decades finally releases his first proper solo...
When Britpop started booming, record labels devised a cunning plan to flog as many versions of each Dodgy single as...
Today’s Great Britpop Song comes from Elastica. At first I only knew this group as “that band whose singer is...
After years of teasing us, Blur have finally announced that they are releasing a brand new album, their first in...
This week’s column is a bumper edition that features my experiences of this year’s Record Store Day, plus new albums...
We’ve not had a chance to hear the forthcoming debuting full length from Damon Albarn but we did manage to...
(Continued from HERE: Musical Memories from 1984 – 1993) You can only like what you know, and you can only...
On the (belated) occasion of Blur‘s relaunching as a working band, I’d like to examine the secret history of a...
David Bowie‘s Lodger has always stood in the shadows in terms of his so- called Berlin trilogy; languishing behind Low and...
It’s been 11 years since the last Blur album, 20 years since ‘Parklife’ and 25 years since the illustrious musical...
(continued from HERE) The summer of 1995 was something I still daydream about to this very day. A summer soundtracked...
I moved to London in 1993. At the time my musical tastes had taken a turn for the worst and...
In the 1990s a picture of John Noakes (the children’s TV presenter of the 1970s) was used to sell vodka,...