AR Kane formed after Rudy Tambala and Alex Ayuli saw Cocteau Twins on TV in 1985. Their albums 69 (1988) and i (1989) were much beloved by t...

It would be utterly remiss of me, irresponsible even, to do a long running series of bands playing live (on stage and on TV) without includi...

The afterglow of last Saturday night's Spiritualized gig has had me diving back into their back catalogue all week, in the car and at ho...

There's an enormous five disc edition of The Wicker Man out this week, a 50th anniversary celebration of the film. The box contains thre...

In August I wrote about Richard Sen's compilation album Dream The Dream, a ten track collection of UK ambient techno/ progressive house/...

Everyone loves a cover version, don't they? In 1987 Mike Watt, suffering from depression in the aftermath of fellow Minuteman D. Boon...

Towards the end of Saturday's Spiritualized gig at Manchester's New Century Hall, the ceiling a mass of coloured lightbulbs and 1960...

A January 1995 episode of Top Of The Pops came up on the repeats on BBC4 recently including this performance of Protection , Tracey Thorn an...

Lost Village is a small festival in the woods in wildest Lincolnshire. Four Tet played there this summer, as he has done before. He's be...

I have to say, I expected more from utopia. It always seemed like it would be better than this.  I missed this album when it came out in Jul...

I spent last Thursday evening in the company of JC, the man behind the long running, standard setting blog The Vinyl Villain. He'd trave...

Smokebelch, the Sabres Of Paradise track that will most likely outlive all their others turns thirty today. The 12" single was released...

Necessary Genius came out yesterday, the new single from David Holmes ahead of his album in November, a fourteen track album titled Blind On...

Sundowning originally appeared on Mark Peter's album from last year Red Sunset Dreams, a song with Dot Allison on vocals, and then in re...

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...

Last Sunday the northern contingent of The Flightpath Estate DJ team (me, Martin and Dan) played a near seven hour session at Blossom Street...

Back in 2013 Andrew Weatherall was on the crest of a new wave, his skills as a remixer in demand again, a new generation of artists wanting ...

I still try to get out and walk daily if possible. It's a habit I got in the first lockdown and have tried to keep going ever since. It ...