XTC were a band I was aware of by 1978 and I first saw them at Sheffield University (3rd Nov 1978, according to the internet) at about...

Pete Wylie, self styled ‘part time pop star full time legend’, wrote some great songs and some of them are collected here. Originally...

There is a system I’m using to work my way through these CDs, which should have given me Talking Heads’ first album, 77, at this point,...

I first became aware of this album about twenty years ago, hearing one of its pieces on Radio 3’s Late Junction, where the late Robert...

In 1971, David Bowie, a trier with years of flop singles behind him (of 13 single releases, only one, Space Oddity had charted) went to...

The Quartet are a Canterbury based collective, led by former Wang Chung front man Jack Hues, (fans of Emile Zola will be tittering right...

Led Zeppelin have always been there or thereabout for me. Never a personal favourite, but a band I’m always happy to listen to and...

As I recall, William Orbit had his 15 minutes of fame in the late 1990s when his version of Barber’s Adagio For Strings was a chart hit,...

This was a band I’d wanted to hear long before I actually did. Formed in 1975, when Hatfield and the North imploded (just before I’d ever...

I missed the initial hype in the early 1990s about these noisy and angry young chaps, hailing from my wife’s home town, Blackwood, and...

This is, I think, the first one of these I’m listening to for the first time. I picked this up very cheaply in a charity shop, alongside...

I was slow getting to know King Crimson, despite my teenage appreciation of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. They made no impression during the...

I knew the hit singles and the first two albums, so was intrigued when seeing this album cheap many moons ago. This, in retrospect, seems...

Back in the good old days, dear reader, libraries had books and nothing else in them. Except for the record library at the bottom of...

If you’d asked me my favourite band in 1975, the answer would almost certainly have been Genesis, my disillusion not really coming until...

I have to confess, Motown Soul isn’t really my chosen genre, but following the rule that good music is good music, and a rave...

I first heard of The Fall about six months before this album – a university friend from Manchester, whose record collection made mine...

Forty years ago, there was a Sunday market on Folkestone seafront, with a fantastic record stall selling second hand LPs, in seemingly...

The whole point of this exercise is to make me listen to CDs on the shelves (and tucked away in the drawers) that rarely attract my...

I first heard Cake a couple of years earlier, when a friend lent me their previous album, Fashion Nugget , which inexplicably I don’t...