To give the title to this post some context, I have been a fand of the Foo Fighters since the beginning, post-Nirvana with the release of the self titled Foo Fighters in 1995. The first 8 albums are still on a sporadic regular rotation of mine, at least a slection of tracks from each of…
I don’t know how I missed this yesterday on the main UK media channels but my phone seems to have caught up with the world and my feeds informed me that LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER is UK’s Eurovision entry for 2006. I will be watching this year, previous years, for as long as I can…
Released on this day 40 years ago, 17 February 1986, The Colour of Spring is the third studio album by English band Talk Talk, written by Mark Hollis and producer Tim Friese-Greene. The Talk Talk albums that came before it had much more of a synthesized pop sound, synthesizers are rarely featured on the album, being replaced by guitar, piano, and organ….
I saw Cast again last night at an outstore through Vinilo Record Store promoting their new album ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah’ which reached #8 in the album charts this week. For a band that formed in 1992, 34 years ago that’s a serious accomplishment. Especially in this fickle music streaming based society we live in. That’s…
Save the Date -Saturday 18th April If you didnt already Record Store Day is the anticipated day for some when over 300 independent record shops across the UK and Ireland come together to celebrate music in the one way they know how. Click here to download the RSD2006 PDF – Or just look at the…
29 years ago today, February 3rd 1997, British electronic band Depeche Mode released ‘Barrel of a Gun’ as the first single from the studio album ‘Ultra’. Some will never have heard it, some will shrug their shoulders and say ‘and’ but to the devout, this was a major moment in the history of one of…
I settled down last night to watch a film, I’ve been a bit vacant from TV for a while aside from a couple of series I’m following but knew there were a few new films to take a look at. To be honest after sitting on and through Cider Apple Vinegar for the afternoon, which…
A couple of days ago there was a post up on Twitter / X showing an old Aiwa stack system asking “are you this old”. I looked at it and thought “just” but was impressed that it was at least a separates stack system, as in each layer, the twin cassette, the CD player the…
The RSD25 list of releases is now online and its a twenty one pages long with a great range of release from some great artists, theres a few live albums in there as well which is good to see, hoping the quality of those is worth it. The thing not to forget is that all…
Dead Man’s Pistol, the Winchester based metal outfit storm their set at The Hobbit in Southampton. A deceptive venue that’s been in existence under its current guise since 1989. A pub upstairs, with stairs leading down to a smallish venue space then a tiered beer garden that would make any establishment envious, complete with outside…
