2020 – Page 2 – Old Musical Express

[Video] The familiar group of several young males have returned to the vicinity of neighbouring residential buildings

17th February 202017th February 2020Video

Heard this on the radio today and it still cuts through and sounds so fresh. The coolest bassman (and frontman) ever, Phil Lynott, the black Irish cowboy, a very unusual sight when they first emerged.

[Album] Flick – The Perfect Kellulight

3rd February 202021st June 2021Albumash, columbia records, flick, marc bolan, radiohead, t.rex, whirling wheel

Another more obscure album, although to my knowledge not critically acclaimed. More’s the pity. Flick was a band started by brothers Oran and Trevor Thornton. When this album came out on Columbia Records, they were

[Gig] The first gig

29th January 202029th January 2020Gig

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

[Video] Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks

25th January 202025th January 2020Video

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

[Video] Björk – Human Behaviour

23rd January 202023rd January 2020VideoBjörk, ITV Chart show, Michel Gondry, The Mighty Boosh

Came back to Björk’s debut album, Debut, recently and remembered how much I loved it, in particular this song.

[Album] 24 Years of Hunger

22nd January 202016th May 2022Album

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

[Video] The Skids?

22nd January 202022nd January 2020Video

All time classic, no further comment necessary

[album] Kite – Kirsty MacColl

21st January 202021st January 2020AlbumJohnny Marr, Kirsty MacColl, The Smiths

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)

[album] Blood Sweat and Tears

16th January 202021st January 2020Album

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

So you want old?

14th January 202015th January 2020General

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