Where is she? My Gen-X brain had this fanciful thought that Winona Ryder might be hanging out here. Reality bites...
From hardcore heavyweights to a household name, recent years have seen Knocked Loose grow evermore prolific in stature. Playing quite...
Being a fan of a band that have had the career that Simple Minds have had is akin to supporting...
The collaboration between Liam Gallagher and John Squire – respectively the former lead singer with Oasis and The Stone Roses’...
With the eyes of The Big Yin staring down into the basement venue of The Old Toll Bar, some could...
It was July 2005, when I first saw Editors but remember it like it was last week. It was a...
OK, let’s deal with this first. Brown Horse come from Norfolk, for some reason one of the parts of these...
Things I don’t really understand about the music biz (part 472): bands who go on tour BEFORE an album comes...
Pop music is in an interesting place in the 20s, very different to its place in the 10s or the...
That one of the dates on Sam Lee’s current songdreaming tour of the UK should be at the Old Woollen seems entirely fitting....
Emerging some five years ago out of the thriving DIY scene that exists around San Francisco’s famous Amoeba Music –...
‘I’m jumbled up /maybe I’m losing my touch?/but you know I didn’t have it anyway!” sings Ian McCulloch, wryly, on...
“Yeah, I guess I gotta do this…” Having just made his faltering way to the little stage in the corner...
My first sighting of Bill Ryder-Jones was at the Glastonbury Festival in 2002. He was then the lead guitarist with The Coral, the...
For people of a certain age who devoured the weekly/monthly music press back in the day, there was always a...