Of the different 60’s freak beat, psych bands The Creation were one of the most formidable with their charging anthems that would light up the stage they performed on and the dancefloors their songs were played in, the pioneering screeching…
The Style Council. The band that followed The Jam. The reason The Jam split up. Paul Weller’s weird years. Call them what you will, The Style Council have always been an exceptional band of the 80’s, possibly the best of…
One of the most distinctive artists of the late 70’s and 80’s was the gruff cockney voiced Ian Dury who convened his formidable bands the Blockheads plus Kilburn and the High Roads. With their brash punk anthems that mixed the…
Following what was an overly success nationwide UK tour of 2019 Manchester’s funk, samba, indie heroes A Certain Ratio announced their first long player in over 12 years, ACR Loco. To be fully released via Mute Records at the end…
It’s Jonny Trunks fault. Honest it is! His oft hallowed book The Music Library book saw its release in 2005 spawning an army of Library Music fans to accept freely this genre of music that sometimes sounds like nothing else…
Following the huge acclaim and success of last year’s half-speed master of ‘Specials’, on 20th November Chrysalis Records will release a half-speed master of The Specials’ second album, 1980’s ‘More Specials’… Formed in Coventry in the mid-1970s, The Specials (originally…
The latest Fuel Publication book details a place known around the world as being mecca for all types of people to gather, enticed by its nooks and crannies, the bigger details and it’s shimmering startling scenery. London, a new book…
Fast-rising, crowd-pulling indie poets The Lathums are to harness their burgeoning popularity for the greater good, by releasing a specially recorded cover of Al Wilson’s Northern Soul classic, The Snake on 7” vinyl in a limited edition of – ONE…
Returning with their first original music in over three decades – BRADFORD – will release a brand new album in 2021: ‘Bright Hours’. Featuring founding members Ian H. (vocals) and Ewan Butler (guitar), the reunion also sees the band welcome…
The Pooh Sticks project was never really finished… Hue Pooh Stick and Amelia Fletcher are reunited in Swansea Sound, with a brand new set of songs and full-on indie attitude with their first single set to be released 17 October…