I hadn't heard of Sauna Youth until they appeared on Marc Riley's All Shook Up, under the name Monotony, performing the song of the same...

The Ruts were just one of the host of second division punk bands around at the end of the 1970s, who churned out a couple of decent...

At the time I had Rush written off as one of those annoying metal bands from across the Atlantic, loved by people whose hair was longer...

Cale and Reed hadn't spoken for years until Andy Warhol's memorial service in 1987, but made enough of a connection to want to work...

I've never really liked classical music as a genre (yes, I know the term classical music is as broad a term as music). I've never liked...

I first heard Rundgren in the early 1970s, I Saw The Light being a song I liked, and that seemed to be played only on pirate radio and...

In 1980, Gong's Daevid Allen was at a loose end, and found himself in New York, hooking up with former Gong champion and producer Giorgio...

Karl Wallinger died earlier this week, far too young at 66. I'm not too familiar with his music, really only through one unconvincing...

One album wonders - bands and artists who recorded one album only. This NME article lists its top 21 of these, and there are many which...

This one is deep into the Canterbury Sound rabbit hole. Pip Pyle, who sadly died in 2006, aged 56, was drummer with Gong, Hatfield And...

John Lydon has been in the news today, doing some public racism for attention. But it's nicer to think of the times when he was relevant,...

I remember listening to PFM, touted as Italy's answer to ELP (a lazy comparison, although they were signed to ELP's Manticore label), in...

Now this is an odd one. I bought this 2CD set cheap on EBay a few years ago, without really looking at what was on it, but being aware of...

In Canterbury there used to be a half decent HMV shop. DVDs, t-shirts and nonsense downstairs, music on CD and vinyl upstairs. Assistants...

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...