All the gigs of my life: Gig 9 – Suede, Saturday, April 05, 1997, Kentish Town Forum
What an introduction to the world of Suede live: a fan club only, B-sides only gig.
Paul Draper at the Manchester Ritz and Electric Brixton, 1st and 8th March 2018
In a few weeks’ time on this blog, I will reach gig no.11 of All The Gigs Of My Life, a truly astonishing night that completely turned my little music-obsessed world around: my first ever Mansun gig in April 1997. But for now, I have my 149th and […]
All the gigs of my life: Gig 8 – My Life Story / Orlando, Friday, February 14, 1997, ULU
My first gig as a Proper Londoner, living and working in the city I’d dreamed of for years, was to see the flamboyantly orchestral My Life Story. But it was the support band I really wanted to see that might, a band I thought, for a few glorious […]
Album for the day 01/03/18: Rae Morris, “Someone Out There”
In this world of bland, unchallenging chart pop, where a small pool of blankly pretty boys and girls mumble a few words over each others’ tracks to the same sanitised, autotuned backing, we need pop stars like Rae Morris. Pop stars who sing lyrics like “I don’t want […]
All the gigs of my life: Gig 7 – Manic Street Preachers, Monday, December 16, 1996, Kentish Town Forum
The triumphant, emotional finale to my trilogy of Manics gigs in London in December 1996.
Adventures in Pop: Immersed in ABBA at the Southbank Centre, February 2018
A journey through the world of ABBA guided by the dulcet tones of Jarvis Cocker. What better way to spend a Saturday morning could there possibly be?
All the gigs of my life: Gig 6 – Manic Street Preachers, Sunday, December 15, 1996, Shepherd’s Bush Empire
My second ever Manics gig, in which I discovered the true nature of Home, and that Moshpits And Me Don’t Mix.
Song for the day 15/02/18: Kim Wilde, “Pop Don’t Stop”
From now, instead of a weekly roundup of New Killer Tunes, I will feature longer musings on new and fab tunes as and when they spring into view. To start off, this wonderful, resoundingly tuneful ode to the true meaning of life, which is of course: pop music. […]
All the gigs of my life: Gig 5 – Manic Street Preachers, Saturday, December 14, 1996, Brixton Academy
21 years old, in a new country, and here was my favourite band in the world, three nights in a row. Three nights which decided the course of the next 21 years of my life.
Songs for the day: New killer tunes 10/02/18
Some waffle about new music. Brought to you by the letter ‘P’ rollerskating through the 1980s with Pale Waves, Paramore, Paul Draper, Poliça and the (Manic Street) Preachers.
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