In the spirit of Harry Hill’s TV Burp, let’s have journalists Stuart Maconie and John Robb once and for all fight it out over who actually did coin the term ‘Britpop’ – wearing parkas, bucket hats and to the tune of Boo Radley‘s ‘Wake Up Boo!‘.
The vogue for nostalgia (cynics would say money) has helped reform many a band thought long resigned to record. This with varying success — think a resurgent Blur compared to a flaccid Verve. Heroically or not, over the years Paul Weller has consistently, vehemently, rebuffed the idea of a Jam …
Pitting major record labels against each other in vying for your signature before reaching the legal drinking age is a hint that things are going well.
Virgin EMI Records eventually won out and signed South Wales indie-quartet Pretty Vicious last January, then just 16 and 17 year olds. Following that, …
Yorkshire’s musical output over the years has been – and this is an understatement if ever there was one – quite commendable.
FANS is one band from the region to have recently ventured out of their familiar territory for a gig at the Sebright Arms in London; sounding something like …
The story goes something like one day Matt Radke was watching School Of Rock with his three sons and afterwards felt inspired enough by Jack Black‘s tutelage to go out and buy a guitar, much like people having that transient urge to run outside and throw shadow punches up and …
Five years ago he released an album as part of the supergroup-trio Them Crooked Vultures. Not quite sated with that musical sojourn, he’s now part of Teenage Time Killers — less a supergroup and more a megagroup bulging with nearly 30 musicians including, amongst …