This edition of The Essential 10 , our quickfire introduction to a wide range of my favourite artists, features The Psychedelic Furs ; an act that has so far managed eight albums over a career that spanned 1977 to 1991, and then again since 2000 to now. I have trawled the entire catalogue to come up with ten of my favourite tracks by them, including a few surprises (although, if you don’t know much about them, they may all be surprises). The Psychedelic Furs first came into

It's mid autumn, getting chillier and damper, and that can only mean that over the pond, the NFL is getting towards the business end of its season. So, I wondered if we could make a playlist out of it? The two teams I mostly follow (49ers and Chiefs) are both having something of an up and down season, but our official family team - the Denver Broncos - are having a stormer so far and are well on track for the play-offs. So, just in case it all goes wrong, we are running with

Jill Sobule, who tragically died in a house fire in Minneapolis, in the early hours of 1 May 2025, had forged a career largely under the...

It's the end of April, post number 193, and the second anniversary of this site. Incredibly, in that time, over 450 people have visited...

This edition of Six Degrees was, as often seems to be the case, prompted by hearing a record on the radio that I hadn't heard in a while....

So, this time, we begin a series of geographical based playlists - based on the city / region / state that a bunch of musical artists are...

For this part of the In Depth series, we look at the life and times of new wave legends, the Psychedelic Furs. You can imagine, being the...