1994 feels like a very long time ago to me. Many gigs, lots of bands and memories now pickled and faded. Thankfully, one of my lasting memories of that particular year was hearing Macclesfield’s Marion for the first time. “Sleep” flew out of my speakers like a passionate, angry snarling dog that possessed the voice [...]
Call me a miserable fucker but I have always liked dark music. The Cure, Joy Division, The Smiths, Bunnymen and French band Baï-Kal.”Baï-Kal?” I hear you ask – Yes, a new band that deserve the 80′s raincoat award for service to the melancholic music industry. Lock me in a room, pull the curtains and just give me Baï-Kal’s [...]
Stoke’s The Blue Collars are what I would call my perfect band. I also say the same about The Jam, so I am not being flippant about The Blue Collars. Great songs, bang on lyrics and the feeling that they will never release a bad song. With youth on there side, they blow the cobwebs [...]
The Skuzzies are everything I like about ‘Real’ Rock ‘n’ Roll music. They look like they have just woken up after a night of serious indulgence and they sound like a beautiful cacophonous musical cocktail of hard living street urchins. The Skuzzies musically are a mix of MC5, The Clash, The Libertines and a darkly [...]
The third in this successful series is now on-line. Part three brings us up right to the modern day and from the comments we have had so far, it’s going down a treat. Part four will be a special in this series, because we are asking the listeners to pick the tracks that sum up the casual scene [...]