A recent purchase from a charity shop, I was expecting far more noise and experiment than tunes from Pere Ubu's 'rock opera', even with...

The outcome of this review is a foregone conclusion. I borrowed this album from Deal Library when it was released, and a friend who had...

This is another recent purchase - I seem to be buying these quicker than I can review them. This is an album I heard and enjoyed at the...

After a hectic fortnight, it's back to these reviews. The Wedding Present are another band of whom I was aware at the time, but didn’t...

Wishbone Ash were one of a number of rock bands from the 1970s, obviously popular, frequently mentioned in the music press yet neither I...

My only reference to Riley from the 1970s was reading that Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells had been influenced by this album. However, in...

I've recently been listening to a lot of podcasts from Martyn Ware (Human League and Heaven 17), and he's mentioned Richard Hawley a few...

This is an album I heard frequently during my teenage years, yet many felt it wasn't a 'proper Pink Floyd album', being a film soundtrack...

The Tangs (as no one ever called them) were a band that in the 1970s I thought I should like, but at the time seemed too airy-fairy...

Flying Teapot, the first album in the Radio Gnome trilogy was a firm favourite once I’d discovered the bonkers world of Gong in my...

Davis' interpretation of Gershwin's Porgy & Bess was one of the first Davis albums I bought, and is one I haven't listened to as much as...

After the demise of The Teardrop Explodes, Cope returned to the rehab of his home town, Tamworth and wrote most of the songs for this,...

Yet another recent charity shop purchase (we've had some decent donations this week), I thought it was time I looked deeper into Stevie...

This was a recent charity shop purchase, of an album I'd never previously owned, but for some reason know quite well. I saw Focus about...

Currently the most recent Fall CD I own (the aim is, of course, to get them all), this is a recent Ebay purchase. This is the sole outing...

I probably heard this before the first album (but not before the early singles), and confess to being disappointed at the time. Classic...

A firm favourite since university days, I'd forgotten how great this album is. The original vinyl version had twelve songs, mostly less...

Picked up for a couple of quid on EBay last week, I've only just got round to listening to this latest Fall addition to the shelves. And...

Who doesn't enjoy a record company sampler? Thinking back to Virgin's V and Cash Cows, Cherry Red's Pillows & Prayers, and even earlier,...

Time for one from the upstairs drawer now. I don't know what Edwyn Collins has done to deserve being relegated to here, but this 'quid in...