I’ve only ever owned it on CD – and I’d put Prefab in the list of bands who make perfect CD Music. Digital sounding music with perfectionist production, best heard on high-gloss shiny disc without surface noise […]

I’ve heard him say most of his unreleased stuff, whole albums worth, exist only as bundles of manuscripts rather than actual recorded music. He of course had a habit of mentioning forthcoming album titles in […]

If it’s the same setup I saw, that track has the only lighting cue in the whole show…a slow fade to deep Red. It’s extraordinarily effective.

It never ceases to amaze me how poorly safeguarded master tapes are – and the tell tale signs are when you play a CD with a ‘remastered’ track which has the crackle and surface noise from being mastered from the […]

Brilliant!!!

@twang @pawsforthought It wasn’t an instruction just a suggestion, great playlist as it stands

On my way home from a little gig in Manchester, I saw the Unknown Pleasures pulsar wave was projected onto the Town Hall which was a nice touch (and unexpected, as Manchester doesn’t do as much civic celebratory […]

Manchester Evening News is almost impossible to read online, especially on a phone, – so much pop-up clickbait shite and blipvert drivel getting in the way of local crimes and scandal. See also all other Reach […]

That was a lorra fun, hats off to my fellow Corgi-registered participants – great to have Twang’s input coming at HMHB as a newbie and he’s absolutely right, there’s some real songwriting craft there to marvel at.

Thats’s a mighty fine plate of Biscuits right there, and a great starter for the band. I’d finish on this one (mentioned on the Podcast although I may have called it Footsteps …doh). HMHB go full Velvet […]

Saw him on the first UK comeback tour in Glasgow nearly 20 years ago and I’ve never witnessed such an outpouring of love for a musician – standing ovation before he’d sat down and sung a note. All the […]

Agree. I was only a tot – only recall vaguely the 70s from 76 onward – so it’s hazy but it’s an endlessly fascinating revisit, as an adult, the era I lived through. So much extraordinary music and culture in the […]

Oh man that’s heartbreaking. I last saw DC in Leeds in 2009 and Vini and Bruce were on top form, a magical night – one to treasure – there is footage!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwh4gxvKNao

Cocteau Twins are my best gig, many years later in 1994 – I guess they had their shit together by then

It does seem to be comedians that do this more than musical acts? Anyone know why? I’d rarely be booking a music gig ticket more than 5 or 6 months prior

Good riddance.

Any iTunes users who are used to the iTunes way of managing their digital music – try Music Bee – I switched to it a couple of years ago – it requires some effort and you may need to take your […]

Complete Works – I reckon this the least rational category – not much rhyme or reason to this one –
So for me A Certain Ratio and Cabaret Voltaire because the sleeve artwork is almost always brilliant and the […]

I’m sure Mike Scott and his raggle taggle chums will be waiting in the wings to steal the show should Miley or Janet Jackson come a cropper in a Portaloo