I always feel dutybound to defend Street Fighting Years when the Minds come up. Yes, it’s a few songs too long, and Steven Lipson’s production is a little of its time, but think it’s inherited some of its […]

Are “Cars” Electric?

Does a couple of glimpses of Mousey on the TV count? I can’t speak for the others in the Antipodean contingent, but I’ve always felt my geographical far-flungedness (along with the time delay) lends the good […]

That’s a good question (and I’m speaking as one of the site’s small handful of unapologetic U2 fans). Many older acts have remained on the cultural radar with the young – Fleetwood Mac, Oasis, The Fabs – via the […]

I can see several site members emerging, meercat-like! “You rang?!” Quite a few phases, labels and line-ups in the band’s long history, so there’s a lot to choose from, but it’d be a rare soul that listed any […]

A very interesting read. I didn’t know how much he’d done., only really knowing him from ‘Short Note’ with Matt Finish which was an FM staple back in the day.

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I feel The Afterword appears to be moving slowly but steadily toward the ‘acceptance’ stage of grief after we lost the magazine. As a latecomer to the magazine, and having grown up outside the UK, where Hepworth […]

The most recent onstage line up of High Flying Birds is pretty nimble. And given that many of them were in the most recent Oasis line up, I think the 2025 band will be a lot better than the Guigsy/White/Bonehead […]

Submarine Bells is a Top 10 album for me. I return to it often. Beautiful but a bit quirky and off-kilter. Soft Bomb had its moments but it was overlong – CD bloat. But I believe Mitch Eater was involved? No – […]

My uncle *still* says “Ronnie Wood will never be a Stone”.

I’ve often wondered the same with a horn section. Some backstage footage of Midnight Oil has Rob and Jim walking the horns through a couple of songs for that night’s show. I then realised that many bands with […]

Ethereal Pretension. TMFTL. I think Warren Ellis has been very good for him but definitely feel the last couple have been…’worthy’. I think the boundary between Cave/Ellis and Cave/Bad Seeds has become far […]

Love the band but have only seen them the once, despite them being pretty frequent visitors to Australia I think. In one of those “this-isn’t-quite-right” bookings, saw The Church and Pretenders on a double bill […]

While I’ve never seen it credited on paper, I’ve read U2 interviews where he’s referred to ‘MSG insects” – a low volume chattering nature ambience that, as the name suggests, makes everything sound better. M […]

On Lovesexy: “Prince: whatever.”

And am I correct that they’d often say Up the Irons, with most fans thinking that it referred to Maiden but actually was West Ham?