I remember returning back to my student digs and my flatmate was playing this album, I hadn’t heard it at that time, somehow the radio play had passed me by but this sound didn’t! The track playing was ‘The day we caught the train’ and I was an instant fan. The band was Ocean Colour…
New album release date: 05/07/24 FINK, Long-established alt-folk trio, return with Fin Greenall’s eighth studio album under the genre-hopping moniker. Coalescing around the emergent urgency in each of the album’s ten tracks and intimate, closed-door sessions in picturesque Cornwall, the soul-reaching ‘Beauty In Your Wake’ is released on the band’s R’COUP’D label Now resident in…
Released 34 years ago yesterday the 26th March 1990, “Step On” or “Who’s Gonna Step On You Again”, was covered by the Happy Mondays, renaming it “Step On” and helping to define an era! The original version “He’s Gonna Step on You Again” is originally performed by John Kongos, and co-written by Kongos and Christos Demetriou. First…
Good News For People Who Love Bad News This was/is the fourth studio album by Modest Mouse, originally released on the 6th of April back in 2004. To celebrate this, the band is releasing and you can pre-order a 20th Anniversary digital expanded edition of the album. The cover is awesome. Here is the link…
“I wanted to build an experience where anybody can be completely themselves, with their friends, their family or completely on their own. BLUDFEST will blur the lines of genre and destroy the limitation of imagination. It will be a festival that cuts the corporate bo****ks and is all about the people. “My plan is to…
On this day, the 19th of March 1990 Depeche Mode released Violator, their seventh studio album. Is it a PERFECT album? . . . . Yes! For many this was their way into Depeche Mode as a band to follow. The success of the single Enjoy the Silence and this album cemented them for many…
It’s 1994 and a man that is brutally murdered, comes back to life as an undead avenger to seek retribution for his and his fiancée’s murder accompanied by an epic soundtrack!! Sound familiar, yes it was The Crow! A cultural phenomenon, a tragic story, a myth, a legend, a perfectly created vision of the original…
The Bends was released ‘on this day’ March 15th 1995 I’ve seen a number of posts today about Radiohead’s album, some with the attached question, “What’s your favourite track on the album?” This was one of those albums you just bought straight away without hesitation, it was a must have but to be honest at…
Biffy Clyro are going to play their first three albums in their entirety at special London and Glasgow shows. Biffy Clyro have announced details of a string of shows in London and Glasgow, dubbed ‘A Celebration Of Beginnings’ and featuring performances of their first three albums in full. The special shows will be taking place across…
One of those / my defining albums, I’ve written a lot about The Farm on a previous post about their new single – read here. This is worth saying. Released on this day 4th March 1991, where has 33 years gone. Spartacus is the debut studio album by British band The Farm from Liverpool, released on 4…
