The Record and Tape Exchange at 90 Goldhawk Road, Shepherd’s Bush, is entirely responsible to this day for my love of Steely Dan. As a designer I would say the cover of their first record
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Fellow Hoodlums is 30 [Album]
Deacon Blue were a successful chart band in the 80s and have subsequently become unfashionable in some quarters, probably due to some questionable style choices in the pop years. Not with me. They actually broke
Continue Reading[Album] Parachute – The Pretty Things
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
Continue Reading[Album] Ram (Walked right out of the machinery)
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
Continue Reading[Album] Imogen Heap – Speak for Yourself
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
Continue Reading[Album] Flick – The Perfect Kellulight
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
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[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 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
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