Songs for the day: New killer tunes 20/01/18
This week’s New Killer Tunes, featuring Kylie, LA Salami, Friendly Fires, Hollie Cook, Rae Morris and Robbie Williams.
All the gigs of my life: Gig 1 – Big Day Out Festival, Fremantle Oval, Perth WA, 30th January 1993
By January 1993 I was 17, nearly 18. Since becoming a music obsessive via David Bowie and the Pet Shop Boys at age 13, I had wandered through the early 90s in search of My Scene. I stumbled through a varied landscape including Faith No More, Seal and […]
Songs for the day: New killer tunes 13/01/18
In which I ramble on a bit about some new tunes and videos which have caught my eyes and ears. This week: Mamamoo, Justin Timberlake, Warm Digits and Manic Street Preachers.
All the gigs of my life: Gig 0 – Tina Turner, The Republic, Singapore, February 1988
Gig zero? Why on earth is this gig zero and not gig number 1? The simple fact is, I was not me when I went to this gig. By which I mean, I was not the music-obsessed, gig-seeking nutter that I was shortly to become and who writes […]
Scruffy Storms: It’s all about Mansun and Take That.
I love indie music and I love pop music. Scruffy Storms is a name which came from a Mansun song (“No One Knows Us”) and a Take That song (“New Day”). My Spotify summary for 2017 says it all really.
SCRUFFY STORMS 