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A few days ago Echo And The Bunnymen's new single came out, a song called Brussels Is Haunted . They've been playing it live for som...

World Of Twist have come up in my internet world a couple of times recently and it seemed too good an opportunity to resist to sling some of...

All being well, tonight I will attend an indoor gig for the first time since seeing Julian Cope at Gorilla in February 2020. One of my Chris...

I found some refuge in Ian McCulloch's album Candleland yesterday. I'm not sure why. It just suggested itself to me. When Ian record...

A month ago JC, The Vinyl Villain, posted some songs from the first flush of Ian McCulloch's post- Bunnymen solo career, a single fro...

Ian Curtis died forty years ago today. The details are public knowledge- found by his wife in his kitchen in Macclesfield, a cord aro...

I woke up recently with Pete Wylie's single Sinful running through my head. Sinful came out in 1987, a hit that saw him return to Top...

On a Factory tip recently I dug out my double disc re-issue of A Certain Ratio's Sextet, their second album, released in 1982 an...

2019 is going to be a year of 30th celebrations marking three decades since various albums and singles were released that shaped popular ...

In past years on music blogs October 25th was Keeping It Peel Day (October 25th being the day he died in 2004), a day to celebrate the li...

The last day of August is always depressing- the end of summer, end of school holidays, changing seasons, nights drawing in, all that st...

Someone asked me if I had digital copies of these three songs. I do. So here they are. Sabres of Paradise in session for John Peel, March...

Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of John Peel. Webbie (from Football and Music) organises this internet event annually, paying...

Yesterday was lovely, largely. The sun shone all day, in the morning I had a great cycle ride round High Legh and through Tatton Park. La...

Clothing in song titles part three: recommended today by C from the wonderful Sun Dried Sparrows. This red pullover would look pretty goo...

This is New Order's gorgeous cover version of Keith Hudson's reggae tune Turn The Heater On, done for a Peel session in 1982. Th...

October 25th is Keeping It Peel Day across the internet. I've taken part previously- the sound of John Peel's voice followed by s...

We Ain't Got Mates. October 25th has become Keeping It Peel Day in recent years, a series of blog tributes to John Peel's radio...

I promised The Cramps' Peel Session cover version of Andy Starr's Give Me A Woman last Friday evening and here it is a week later...

A short film here where Sheila Ravenscroft introduces John Peel's record collection, with Sabres Of Paradise standing for the lette...