I always thought the Staves were post rock, along with anyone from the Fence Collective, but I had the wring posts and it seems that it applies to the Lettermen and the Parcels.

Horses for courses; maybe it was a shopping list was after. And duly supplied, with, as said, a lot of pointers amongst the usual and expected.

Of course, a cinema was the big ticket for live bands in Brum back in the day, or, more to the point, sometime around the late 80s. Moving to the city in 1981, all the very many gigs I saw in the 80s were likely […]

I guess because one on the 50s would seem of little appeal to the man on the street. Luckily, the books, 500 recordings, 1001 records before you die etc etc are good on that decade.
I take the points about the […]

If my experience with physics is anything to go by, I got where I am today by watching what my colleagues were doing in the practical ahead of ‘remembering’ they were on the right track. Grade E at A level, all […]

A slight deviation from the OP, but I am enjoying the Ultimate Record Guide series, trickling out from Uncut. So far they have done the 60s and 2 splitting the 70s. As well as all the usual culprits they cover a […]

Never heard the loveable moptops version, but Emmylou is incandescent therewith.

Having been put off by their spotty oik appearance on arrival, I never thought much, the grisly tales of overdosing to reversible deaths having little appeal likewise. But Gahan’s work with Soulsavers, he w […]

i have a lifetime (and a roomful) of purchases made on the strength of the cover. Many more on the strength of the name. Occasionally I buy on the strength of a review. Rarely is it because I have heard it, if you […]

O I don’t know, they were never punk to me, being nearer boy band material when they began, I think. However, they have earnt the accolade, even if, in part, by lifestyle, but also longevity. If it was good e […]

Anyone not skip Jazz Police on the next album?

As above; much more.

Sure you didn’t buy it 3 times, @stevet ? That would explain the rapidly diminishing number of copies.

DONOVAN, I think you mean…..

Again, whilst this is the cinema in a theatre, rather than vice versa, Symphony Hall in Brum do a yearly silent film: Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, with good quality and hand scrubbed film, with live backing from […]

But she will be arm twisted into providing a naff big ballad, much as other then deemed fashionable names have done, foundering on the subsequent albatross in their catalogue. What was the Shena Easton one? Duran […]

Maybe it’s because I don’t listen to the radio much these days, but, much as I share your feel (and thus fear) for ubiquitous songs: Brown Eyed Girl, Don’t You Want Me etc, to which I will add Stairway to Heaven, […]

Pish and tosh, my Dylan go to song.
The cover by Tom Russell goes on a bit, mind.

But the version on the boot, ‘Unplugged and unshaven’ is a joy. it is a good song.

I’m reminded that James Whild Lea (aka Jimmie Lea from Slade) had a very well received album that went nowhere in 1976.
And Tiggs gave up a shout for the Chas Smash/Cathal Smyth ( the shouting one who ‘plays’ […]