It’s been a while since we did one of our Six Degrees of Kevin Shields episodes, so to honour the new year, we are looking at musicians born on New Year’s Day to start proceedings. There are a few potential starters for this honour; Joe McDonald , the ‘Country’ one in Country Joe & the Fish ; Morgan Fisher, keyboard player with Mott The Hoople ; Ari Up (John Lydon’s stepdaughter) of The Slits ; Brody Dalle (Bree Robinson), the Australian born singer with punk band The Dist

Following on from my chronicling of my favourite drummers and bass players, I thought it was high time to start considering the...