Back in 2010, I went with some friends to the Lounge On The Farm Festival for the day, and met up with my daughter and her friends who...

I was aware of Elbow as a band without hearing them until listening on 6Music and Marc Riley played The Birds from this album. It sounded...

I've always like Eels, since I first heard them, and have a few of their CDs. This one (no idea where or when bought, but Eels CDs aren't...

I knew nothing of Nick Drake beyond 'folk singer who tragically died young' in the 1970s, and never heard his music. In the 1990s he...

I've already mentioned my enjoyment of Fairport Convention, through pre-punk John Peel, so on finding this 2 CD album in a 'these CDs...

One day in the summer of 1977, I was minding my own business, searching through the racks at Probe Records, a place far more cool and...

Their identity secret when the albums which comprise this anthology were released, this XTC alter-ego built of Partridge, Moulding and...

The Dirty Three is an Australian instrumental trio, which includes Bad Seed Warren Ellis on violin and piano, hence my interest. I've no...

I was aware that Durutti Column were a Manchester band at the time, but paid them little attention, and didn't really hear anything by...

A train journey this weekend, hopefully to watch Everton avoid relegation (Spoiler - they did!), so the streaming choices may be a bit...

A couple of years ago, the Oxfam shop received a donation, probably from a reviewer, of a large number of interesting CDs in lovely...

I first heard of Chick Corea, as the electric piano player on Miles Davis' In A Silent Way, so on seeing this compilation of his 1970s...

It was September 1978 and I was visiting an old school friend in Manchester. We'd arranged to meet up with a uni friend of mine, who...

A recent charity shop purchase, a £1 2CD Trojan compilation wasn't staying on their shelves while I had a quid in my pocket. I've never...

I fell for Richard Dawson's individual delivery and take on the folk tradition when I first heard him on BBC 6Music's Freak Zone about...

Prog rock was banished to the margins during the 1980s (despite the 'dinosaurs' continuing to sell huge numbers of albums and do sell out...

A short break from the relentless march through the alphabet (I'm currently trying to do artists not yet visited) to focus on CDs I've...

I was very late coming to Ry Cooder, and have still really only dipped my toes in the water. I like his more recent political stuff and...

It was a mystery to me why The Comsat Angels weren't bigger in the 1980s. Perhaps the bleak sound didn't suit the time (although, add a...

The British jazz scene is thriving at the moment and I'm delighted to report that it doesn't involve middle aged men in striped blazers...