My daughter's boyfriend plays the bass, pretty well by all accounts. And his favourite bassist is Jaco Pastorius. I'd certainly heard of...

As previously mentioned, during my university years, XTC were probably my favourite band, and I was lucky enough to see them three times,...

Folk rock (let's assume for the sake of argument there is such a genre, and it's relevant to Oysterband) has always appealed more to me...

Having enjoyed his amusing book, detailing his life in show business, without ever exhibiting any aptitude or major talent, I picked up...

I'm cheating a bit now. Technically, I don't own this album - but I do own the 2CD set which compiles all three Only Ones albums...

If you wanted to step deep into the Canterbury Sound rabbit hole, you could do worse than visit Matthew Watkins' Canterbury Sans...

In the mid 2000s, David Sylvian collaborated with his brother Steve Jansen, and producer Burnt Friedman, under the group name Nine...

I've previously mentioned the old Liverpool Record Library opposite the cathedral, and how I'd be sent down there by my dad to pick up...

Colin Newman's fifth solo album comes during the second (1980s) period of Wire, and is much more electronically based than Wire albums...

I first heard Youssou N'Dour about seven years before this album was released, probably because of his work with Peter Gabriel. I hadn't...

When I was going through my World Music phase, trying to look cool and out of the mainstream, this was exactly the sort of thing I bought...

I wasn't aware of The Mutton Birds until I say them at WOMAD probably in 1996. A friend had spent some time in New Zealand and had...

The final one from the 'Oundle Purchase', and we're on safer ground with the saxophone maestro himself. This album, from 1960, was...

It's always the same - you wait 300 reviews for a Moody Blues album, then two come in quick succession. This is another cheap purchase...

Another purchase from last week, as someone in Oundle seems to have decided they don't like Portico Quartet any more, and given their CDs...

So, once I had the wallet out in Oundle, I ended up picking up anything that I thought might be of interest, so this for a couple of quid...

Runrig were a band I'd heard of as a Scottish nationalist rock band, but had never really encountered musically until seeing this cheap...

The Moody Blues have always been there as a sixties thing, but only with a couple of insipid hit singles, excluding the rather good...

The Monochrome Set were just a name in the music papers, and I didn't really hear anything of them until the wonderful Cherry Red Pillows...

Down the Canterbury rabbit hole again! Phil Miller was guitarist with Delivery, Hatfield and the North and National Health, where he...