Although I’d been a music fan and buying records since I was eight, I didn’t get around to the live experience until I was sixteen. As with my first album, my partner in crime was
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[Video] Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
This is out there. I hate country music (is that what it is? you decide), but I promise you these guys are awesome. And the ladies, something else. Your life will be enriched, or your
Continue Reading[Video] Björk – Human Behaviour
Came back to Björk’s debut album, Debut, recently and remembered how much I loved it, in particular this song.
Continue Reading[Album] 24 Years of Hunger
Eg and Alice. Who? Eg White (really!) is somebody whose work you will be familiar with in some form, promise. Alice Temple was a model and (I kid you not) a former BMX champion who
Continue Reading[Video] The Skids?
All time classic, no further comment necessary
Continue Reading[album] Kite – Kirsty MacColl
Maybe it’s a generation thing, or maybe I live in a bubble, but I feel like a lot of people I talk to don’t really know who Kirsty MacColl is, despite knowing (and loving, usually)
Continue Reading[album] Blood Sweat and Tears
This was my first LP. As a fan of the Beatles I was very proficient at buying their singles for six shillings and threepence, but had not ventured an interest in the long player, until
Continue ReadingSo you want old?
The OME started as a joke because at one time I used to read the only sane music weekly, the NME, which was a weekly obsession for all music fans in the 70s, having been
Continue Reading[Album] Supergrass Is 10 – The Best Of 94-04
This is going to start out sounding less than complementary. Supergrass was never a band I’d have imagined going to see. Never crossed my mind. I’d enjoyed Alright, Pumping on your Stereo and Richard III
Continue ReadingAbout time there was another one of these…
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