Veteran Acid Jazz pioneer and DJ releases new solo album Firebird exploring his love of all things jazz and Latin, and much more. Following the success of his 2022 mod-club, soul-jazz adventure with Mick Talbot, on 27 January Acid Jazz…
Evergreen beloved brummie quartet Ocean Colour Scene are cemented as an indispensable guitar folk rock band who emerged in the early-mid 90’s and are still firing on all cylinders 30 odd years down the line. Back when the band broke…
“I don’t get anxiety on stage but I do get it before and after,” says Matt, his last live outing in London’s Kings Place in February a triumphant return to live playing following the release of his biographical Sky Arts…
Dave Cairns was at the forefront of an exciting period in music when bands like The Jam, The Beat, Madness, The Buzzcocks and The Selecter were at the forefront of guitar lead new music that spawned in the late 1970’s….
“I don’t understand this stuff that’s out there that they call music. I don’t understand what young people sing and what they write. The songs never have a melody that I can whistle and, if you can’t whistle it, it’s…
Whiteout were the band that co-headlined a tour with Oasis back in the early 1990’s, signed to The Stone Roses record label Silvertone and had some of the best tracks of the period. There have been years of fans crying…
The author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay is a man whose very being seems imbued with an antique air. He moves, almost floats along Bold Street as if he has always walked here and always will, his communion with…
When Desperately Seeking Paul was first advertised, I will be honest and say I was a tad put off with my own thoughts that this might be some sort of tacky Weller cash in ploy. However, as with many first…
Acid Jazz have a long history with Chris (who coined the term ‘acid jazz’) and Mick (founding member of the Style Council), who appeared on one of the label’s earliest and rarest singles as ‘King Truman’ back in 1988. Their…
There have been a number of musical phenoniums from decade to decade that have spawned exciting new groups; the 60’s gave birth to a thousand guitar bands including The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Small Faces; late 80’s Madchester which helped propel…