During his Winner Years, Lance Armstrong got so bumptious that there was at least one press conference where a journalist confronted him...

Bands, just like people, have faced either more or less ill-timed obstacles from Covid. Not that well-timed global pandemic blows exist,...

Do You Look At Yourself And Find Nothing? asks Jane Weaver in her new track, The Revolution Of Super Visions. It´s one of those Yes/No...

These virtual mini-bots that hang out patrolling our online blather must have such a laugh categorising things. Mine, for, example has a...

Ad breaks and high streets from about 1985 crop up every now and again in my imagination, and they are normally made up of a rack of...

Barely a day goes by without somebody asking me, “What would A.R. Kane sound like if they were doing stuff now?” Obviously, that´s a lie....

After watching Wes Anderson´s animation feature, Isle Of Dogs, a friend commented that she thought the director should stick to...

Among the perennial favourites, repetition is probably the most perennial. It’s really really perennial and offers discussion...

Autobus FM is one of those curiousities that looms large in my musical imagination while meaning nothing at all beyond the cosy confines...

Imagine we get the urge to recruit a continental woman, one who defiantly rejects the conventions that singers really really sing and...

Blackbirds occupy a significant position in the average British person’s imagination. The latest figures I’ve seen say that 60% of all...

A twenty second snippet of brilliance might seem a flimsy basis for 20 years of idolatry, but that´s what happened. The intro from MJ...

Eagle-eyed readers will have spotted that I have been tracking the YouTube views of the songs that I´ve covered in the blog. Watching out...

Faced with months of inactivity, what´s the best thing a band can do? 4 months into global pandemic I think Japanese girl group CHAI have...

Despite my allotmenteering tendencies, I don’t harbour great fondess for the refrain, ‘The rain, the rain, the rain, thank God the...

In the pantheon of great football chants, there must be some dark alcove where they keep the most obscure ones, like this; Bobby Zamora´s...

Robert the Hermit, Phillipa of Lancaster, The Black Prince,– just three big names from the 14th century who have never been celebrated in...

Nominative determinism is a good topic to mention if you want to come across like Stephen Fry, it´s that thing where people called Mr...

Theories about the making of soul music abound, but right now we’ll just be needing this one; soul insiders can push production forward...

All those semi-vacant months ago when lockdown first kicked in, The Guardian recommended DJ Badsista’s Dummy Mix 579 as one of its This...