In 1989 I was too busy becoming a father for the first time, and living down south to take much notice of a group of young scallies from...

I bought this online many moons ago, keen to hear a collaboration between Costello and American jazz guitarist, Bill Frisell, recorded at...

What I know about Billy Childish could be written in one paragraph at the start of an uninspired review. He's a Medway based artist,...

I recollect neither buying this or listening to it before this exercise. I had no idea why I might by it until further examination...

Lydia Domancich is a French pianist / keyboardist with peripheral links to the Canterbury scene, in that her sister Sophia stood in for...

A quid at a boot fair, as all the popular albums from the Britpop era tend to be thirty years later. Cast was John Power's post The La's...

I'm sure you know the story. After playing a tribute concert to Woody Guthrie, Bragg was contacted by Nora, Guthrie's daughter, asking...

The final purchase from a recent visit to Cambridge, and this wasn't staying in the Oxfam shop racks for very long while I visited,...

I've recently become more and more interested in the work of Steven Wilson, and his original band Porcupine Tree, and one of my musical...

There's a massive cheat coming up here. On its own, this album was only released as a 10 MP3 format, or a vinyl LP with 8 tracks. But...

All I knew of the Beta Band was one track ( To You Alone from their 2000 single) on a compilation free with a magazine, which I'd quite...

I'm not a fan of 'Best Of' compilations, as a rule, but Roddy Frame has churned out some decent tunes in his time, and I'm pretty sure...

This is the last of the boot fair purchases from earlier in the month, a Davis double CD from 1974. It was released as a double LP, with...

This is another of those albums that's been on my radar for a couple of decades, yet only bought (from a charity shop) in the past few...

Number 2 in the six volume set of You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore (spoiler, Frank, you can) series, this one is an entire concert,...

Yet another boot fair purchase from a couple of weeks ago (three for a fiver), this is the 2023 release of an album put together for 1977...

The final time I saw XTC was at Sheffield University in May 1981, where as a student who had helped them set up, I was allowed into the...

Kathryn Williams' debut album was recorded for £80 and no one noticed it. The following album, Little Black Numbers was nominated for the...

Often regarded as the first The The album, Burning Blue Soul was recorded in 1980 and released the following year under Matt Johnson's...

Another boot fair purchase (still sealed, 3 for a fiver), and the combination of Nick Mason, Pink Floyd's drummer and Robert Wyatt on...