May 18th was the date of two tragic events - both of which are marking their 45 year anniversary in 2025. One has a musical connection,...

I'm not sure if this is peculiar to England - a sporting fixation with one particular venue - but every young football fan in this...

We have collated a number of stories from the world of music that we think are quite interesting. Some of them, while not always directly...

A couple of things this last week - one a sadly unfolding saga of a band crumbling in front of our eyes, the other a very specific (and...

After focusing on my favourite drummers a few months back, this time it is all about the bass. The bass player is often the hardest...

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...

Scotland has always provided a rich source of musical pleasure over the decades, but Glasgow alone has produced myriad great bands,...

November 1st and 2nd is a holiday period particularly important in Mexico - known in Spanish as el Dia de Muertos or el Dias de los...

The mood in the Birds That Are Blue camp is still requiring an uplift. So we will continue with our theme of playlists by the decade -...

We found out yesterday, that bass player extraordinaire, John Giblin, had passed awy on Sunday (14 May) at the age of 71, after 'a short...

I noticed the other day that this site was approaching a milestone - and so today, we celebrate the 100th post!! And what better way to...

Every so often a song comes along - and no matter how many times you play it - ten, a hundred, a thousand - it gives you that strange,...

New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83. 84) was Simple Minds' sixth studio album, released on 13 September 1982. It is my favourite album of theirs....

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