I’ve banged on about Friendly Fires before on this forum. Give these a spin – Huge George Michael/Wham vibe mixed with House Music and a bit of that sort of Scritti/Blue Nile/Prefab sophisticated 80s Pop -If […]

Yep good shout – their last LP ‘V’ is outstanding too, essential listening. Brilliant live band too and frustratingly they don’t tour much, they tend to do festivals.
They’re not a retro band but there’s a tip […]

Suspect this will pricey although not quite at HJH/Pink Floyd scale. Content looks good though, lots of unheard stuff and would be nice to have a decent print of the TV stuff – pretty comprehensive collection as […]

AFAIK the Perfect Kiss video version wasn’t on the Low Life reissue, it was on the Bonus Disc which came with some copies of that ‘Retro’ box set they did yonks ago. It is completely different to to 12″ – […]

Haha! Apologies to Wheaty, I was having a Ginger Baker moment.

Or you could sell the Mac and learn how to use a proper Computer – get a far better machine for a fraction of the price running Windows or Linux and get MusicBee to manage your music library.

Are you in Prison or some Totalitarian state that denies you access to information? If not then I assume you have access to the same news sources and public libraries as the rest of us, so stop posing as some sort […]

I don’t think about music like this any more – I just seek out stuff that’s interesting, try and see live music and enjoy discovering things old and new. The only reason I keep an eye on new music is so I can find […]

So.. I heard the singer from Modern English on a Podcast the other day. That song up there wasn’t much of a hit over here but took flight on US College/Alternative rock radio, got used in a couple of movies and […]

Interesting to note a few of the YouTube clips from the original thread are already dead – the algorithm for copyright infringement is getting increasingly sophisticated. People mistake YT as a way of archiving […]

I’m a Factory fan, looking forward to the Manchester exhibition next year, but I’m not tempted to part with 180 for this although it does look nice. I’d quite like an original Fac 2 and the OMD single to go with […]

Have a listen:

At first glance it sounds like nothing new, Rough Trade East has had a permanent live stage for years, Jacaranda in Liverpool is a Record Shop by day and a live music/club venue by night. The difference is being a […]

@Twang I really like Buxton, went recently to check it out and visit a Cafe/Record Shop called Coda run by a pal of mine – Me and Ms Volume agreed we could happily live there if the train service to Manchester was […]

I struggle with ‘pure Jazz’ also, but agree with the OP I like it when Jazz seeps into other genres and gets corrupted and suddenly the things I do like about Jazz – the odd rhythms, the lush chord progressions, […]

…and as @fentonsteve points out ACR are unmissable live right now, so go see them if you get the chance, they’re famous for a bit of a percussion workout which tends to process through the audience these days…

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