Florence Welch, the idiosyncratic feminist icon; the woman full of happiness, glitter and magic. She is far from the ideally formed pop stars that have been formed for the record labels; she is her own structured self – she is…
It’s difficult to believe that once upon a time – before The Hills, The Valleys or any of The others – the M in MTV stood firmly for Music. Some may also find it difficult to remember Duran Duran as…
For a start, Suede are one of the only bands that can open a set with a B-side and have every single person in the crowd singing along. ‘Animal Nitrate’, ‘Trash’, ‘The Beautiful Ones’ all spring to mind when you…
One of the true anomalies of British music in the 1990s, Radiohead were and continue to be a musical chameleon, constantly morphing sonically and defying boundaries set by their peers. As the era of Britpop chewed and spat out a…
Amy, the distant soul of the Jazz age – the beautiful lone singer creating cinematic and exuberant tracks. Amy Winehouse brought jazz back into a world that had succumbed to numbing manufactured pop sensations, through the extension of her albums –…
Ah, the double-edged sword of The Best Of collection. To many they hold the ultimate in a band’s back catalogue – their Greatest Hits, the complete singles collection – and they’re not wrong; but anyone who really knows them knows that it’s…