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...

Still less than a decade after his debut with My Aim Is True, Costello released his 11th (yes, eleventh!) studio album Blood & Chocolate...

I got this CD out of the library on a whim in the 1990s, and bought it as soon as I saw it reasonably priced. Possibly something of a...

I'd heard of Pat Metheny as a great guitarist, and was interested in hearing more modern jazz, so on seeing this for a quid in a charity...

The so-called folk-punk genre, arguably invented by the Pogues, had its moment in the mid-eighties, and some great music emerged. Among...

The Members were one of those punk bands that hit the public consciousness for a year or so, before vanishing back into the ether....

Happy New Year, everyone. The first post of 2024 is the only CD I received for Christmas, a 2022 reissue of Robert Fripp's noodling in...

Ever since the early singles in the 1980s, Depeche Mode are a band I felt I ought to investigate further, so when a donation of a number...

I first heard this album when I was at primary school, and was visiting a friend's house when he put this on, telling me this lot were...

This is an album I'd frequently heard snippets and odd songs from, and I was familiar with Chicago, there being enough there to convince...

This one was a recent charity shop purchase, for not very much at all, but was a firm favourite when first released and I bought it on...