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…
Thanks to work I found myself in Florence, Italy with some time to myself. I knew this prior to my trip so i did what I always do when visiting somewhere, I type the words RECORD SHOP into Google maps, they exist in Florence in abundance. I didn’t expect to get to them all but…
According to The Official Charts (UK), theses are the biggest songs on 2025. My question is, where are all the bands? Now just to be clear, I am not posting this as I have any issue or dislike of any solo artists or any of those in the lists below. It’s just a shame that…
I came across this today on social media, a website that kicks off with the first day, the first broadcast of MTV. The site then either shuffles random videos at you or you can choose decades based on preference. If .you had any love of MTV, its worth a look. Follow the basic instructions and with…
To put this title into context, yes I am (was) that person who cringed when someone referred to multiple records as ‘vinyls’ as the plural of ‘vinyl’ is …… wait for it …… ‘vinyl’, and yes I am (was) slightly judgmental when I started seeing records referred to as ‘vinyl’ as a complete substitute for…
