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

When I saw the news the other day about Morten Harket, lead singer of Norway's biggest 1980's export, A-ha, my heart went out to him....

As a somewhat belated birthday shout out to one of my all time favourite singers - this edition of 6 Degrees of Kevin Shields is for...

A few weeks ago, the music world paid tribute over two epic concerts to the life and legacy of Taylor Hawkins. In a twenty five year...

It is time for our next 6 Degrees journey. This time, in honour of his headlining set at Glastonbury on Saturday, we start with Paul...

It's time to delve into '6 Degrees of Kevin Shields' again. This time we work our way towards Kevin Shields, starting from Chicago indie...

It's time for another '6 Degrees' journey. Now, when I was coming up for a name for this - I knew I wanted to change the traditional...

On this edition of '6 Degrees' we look at the late, great frontman of The Small Faces and Humble Pie - Steve Marriott. Steve Marriott...