2020 – Old Musical Express

Free live

24th October 202011th October 2022General, Video

“We considered ourselves a live band that did records every now and then” Andy Fraser. “We really tore up the place, but we were around for less than three years. By the time Fire and

[Song/Video] Ash – A Life Less Ordinary

25th September 202025th September 2020Song, Video

Turns out that Ash have written two of my top… gonna go with 15 just in case I’ve forgotten some… top 15 pop songs of all time. And this is one of them. It’s just

Top 10 singles – Teh Jayhawk

6th June 20206th June 2020General

This was provoked by the Guardian’s clickbait top 100 No 1s of all time, which was so contentious that it sparked off another 100 lists. This is something which changes as you go along and

[Album] Parachute – The Pretty Things

17th May 202017th May 2020Album

The death of Pretty Things vocalist Phil May (he was in Bowie’s address book under ‘God’) prompted a re-listen to a 1970 album which at the time (mid ‘O’ Levels) had quite a profound effect

[Video] 1969. Heavy rock starts and ends here.

8th May 20208th May 2020Video

Never bettered.

[Album] Ram (Walked right out of the machinery)

25th April 202025th April 2020Album

So as a Beatles fan, in 1970 I was fascinated to see what our Paul would do on his own. His first album, McCartney, was a very ramshackle construction made at home with a mixture

[Song] Orbital adventures

10th March 202021st June 2021Song

The first record I bought aged 8. Actually it wasn’t it was in fact Fireball XL5, the music from an execrably bad TV series for kids. (Yes it’s on Youtube). But I saw sense and

Lost in music

3rd March 20203rd March 2020General

The old cliche about rock stars being self destructive is kind of true. The problem is that we’ve moved out of the age of rock into the age of hiphop. The old stars are few

[Video] The cover I never knew I wanted to hear

28th February 202028th February 2020Videoprince, radiohead

This one’s actually new to me, despite being 12 years old. I was looking for something else, and came across this gem. From a cursory reading of internet news stories it seems that there was

[Album] Imogen Heap – Speak for Yourself

19th February 202019th February 2020Albumbadly drawn boy, ben folds, chris moyles, dave matthews band, david ford, elliot smith, imogen heap, jami sieber, lemon jelly, matchbox twenty, radio 1, scott mills, singer songwriter, synth pop, the head and the heart, tubular bells, weezer

I’m about to write another piece on an album by artist where I have failed to explore the full catalogue of said artist. I think in many ways this is kind of consistent. I’m writing