As I wrote about last week after his sad death, Gary Johnson, highly skilled master of the fretless bass and integral member of China Crisis through their terrific 80s run of albums - Working With Fire & Steel, Flaunt The Imperfection, What Price Paradise, Diary Of A Hollow Horse - is the man who also once bought sixteen year old me a beverage prior to their gig at Surrey University. They were, without doubt, one of the most important bands for me through that mid to late 80s

Another day, another article I'd rather not have to have written. It was May half-term, 1989, and I had just turned 16. My second ever ‘proper’ music gig, and I was dropped off, just me, at Surrey University for this one. One of the beautiful things about music is the connections you make, both with the music and with other fans. As if to prove that, I was a very shy teenager, yet I got chatting to another solo attendee in the queue waiting for the venue to open. They were ol

Okay, so it's a little strange to write about someone on the 26th anniversary of their passing, rather than a rounder number, like 25 or...

Haslemere Hall: 13 October 2023 There is always some danger when going to see a band who had some hits in one particular era, before...

For the second of our run of geographically themed playlists, we head off to the musical mecca of northwest England - Liverpool. But this...

In this playlist I am looking at albums that I discovered during my teenage years. These are ones that are hugely important to me,...

Well, according to Classical Foundation Horsemanship - "When a horse is hollow, the muscles under the neck are flexed and the horse pulls...