As a teenager, I was an avid consumer of anything put out by the fledgling Virgin label. Keen not to pay out any of the Tubular Bells...

In 1977, I'd just started university and my ears were opened to this new noisy punk rock, and the punkiest thing from across the Atlantic...

I was lent this album by a school friend about two years after its release, and was immediately hooked. Totally unlike anything I'd heard...

During my one year at Sheffield University I helped out on the Entertainments Group, basically swapping days of setting up for events for...

I suspect I borrowed this album from Deal Library soon after it was nominated for the Mercury Music Award, then some years later saw it...

Possibly better known for his later jazz-funk albums, Hancock was an accomplished jazz pianist in the 1960s, coming to attention as part...

Some celebrity deaths resonate more than others, that's only natural. Joe Strummer's passing hurt me, but I wasn't prepared for just how...

How many Bad Seeds does it take to make the Bad Seeds? Obviously more than three, since this album featuring Nick Cave alongside Warren...

I first heard Grid on Real World's A Week In The Real World and really enjoyed what I heard, so felt comfortable taking a punt on seeing...

John Greaves, erstwhile bassist with Henry Cow and National Health, is a lovely bloke (or at least he was in 1978 when he took the...

So, I was in the old HMV in Canterbury (before it moved to new premises and became an overpriced vinyl and shite merch shop for...

It's 1976 and the Pot Head Pixies have departed the Planet Gong in their flying teapots, leaving only drummer/percussionist Pierre...

Is this Britpop? I never really bought into the Britpop thing. Like most 'scenes', there's good and bad and of all the new British bands...

I'm unsure what first attracted me to Gogo Penguin, apart from the name, possibly hearing them on 6Music, possibly a recommendation from...

So I picked this album out while shopping in Falmouth, and the proprietor reached under the desk and pulled out a 5CD set of Ayers' first...

Another CD bought in Falmouth, just getting an airing for the first time (Little spoiler - for a completely new one I normally listen...

Another holiday purchase in Falmouth, this is a later period Fall album, Craig Scanlon's last appearance and Steve Hanley can see the...

On a recent holiday in Cornwall, I stumbled across a wonderful second hand music shop in Falmouth, and emerged an hour later, much...

Just back from holiday (Cornwall, a lovely time, thank you for asking), to find the new Squid CD, their second, had been delivered....

This is one of those bands whose name attracted me, and after hearing a couple of songs on 6Music, I was left with a favourable...