Folly of Youth

A form of currency when I was young was the C90 cassette - either home-made compilations or with the John Peel show taped on them. This was ...

Late to the party as ever, I just started listening to Frightened Rabbit's The Midnight Organ Fight . Hearing they were on FatCat rec...

You know those free CDs you get with music magazines? Well as I am constantly reminded, they are not 'free' because you have had to...

Damn this fine, sunny weather we are enjoying in the UK at the moment. It doesn't really suit the sombre mood I was looking forward to ...

You can't go wrong with four bands for six quid. Well you can if a) the band you are going to see only gets a 30 minute slot and b) one ...

Photo credit: Mark Mawston Pere Ubu premiered its musical adaptation of the theater of Ubu Roi, Alfred Jarry's groundbreaking 1896 play...

Well you could have treated yourselves to the new albums from Portishead, Tindersticks or The Fall today but surely there's only one alb...

You wait years for your favourite Californian slo-core band to turn up. Then they announce they are playing your home town on their UK tour....

Well how did this happen? I often go to gigs and don't come back with any photographs (and the size of the Bridgewater Hall - 2000 seat ...

After seeing Malcolm before ( here and here ) knew what to expect but forgot just how good this would be. Malcolm claimed that the evening ...

I'm not a sentimental type but recent events amongst family and friends (involving family pets, turning 40 and themed cakes) have caused...

"Do you really need to keep that?" is a question I have been asked all my life; and the answer is invariably "yes". Henc...

The hardest working band touring the UK at the moment? Back in Manchester but alas without dancer-cheerleader-mascot Volvo who went o...

Last week Jim Jones died of a heart attack at the age of 57 after many years of illness. Jim was guitarist with Pere Ubu , Home and Garden ...

I've just started listening to the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss album " Raising Sand ". It isn't bluegrass. And it isn...

One thing that is great about Brakes is hearing four musicians play short, sharp, fast and loud songs. With electrical instruments and ampli...

First time I've ever had ticket number one? Pete & The Pirates played The Roadhouse tonight as part of UK tour in advance of their...

This was a competition winners-only event at BBC Radio Merseyside 's performance space. Well the performance space was more like an offi...

Well after average (by BSP standards) show at Leeds was expecting more of tonight. In such a high state of excitement unfortunately that end...