By the mid-80s, Jeff Lynne was getting pissed off with Electric Light Orchestra, the band that he had co-founded in 1971 and been the driving force behind for the next 14 years. He had become much more interested in producing … Continue reading Stuck in the Middle: The Rise and Fall of Electric Light Orchestra Part II
There’s a problem with the way in which we consume music these days. The problem is this: back in the days when you listened to a vinyl LP, a cassette or a CD, you tended to listen to it beginning … Continue reading SCANDAL – Mirror: Review
I have vague memories of watching Let It Be on television in my childhood, as part of a season of Beatles films shown on BBC2 in the early evening. With a little help from my friends (pun partly intended), I’ve … Continue reading The Beatles – Get Back: Review
There are two types of cult following for bands: the Cool Cult, that most people won’t have heard of but the wearing of whose t-shirt will get you an appreciative nod from the girl behind the counter in the record … Continue reading The Sparks Brothers: Review
Piroshka were formed in 2018 by former Lush frontwoman Miki Berenyi, her partner K.J. ‘Moose’ McKillop, Justin Welsh from Elastica and Michael Conroy from Modern English and this is their second studio album after 2018’s Brickbat. Staunchly refuting the label … Continue reading Piroshka – Love Drips and Gathers: Review
*The album, not the band (but yes, also the band). There is a classic rock ‘n’ roll anecdote surrounding the release of the Electric Light Orchestra’s eponymous first album and like most stories of this nature, it’s only probably true. … Continue reading Still No Answer: 50 Years of Electric Light Orchestra*
2021 looks set to be a good year for the music documentary, what with Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers and the Beatles documentary Get Back waiting in the wings, so it seems like as good a time as any to … Continue reading Six Favourite Music Documentaries
Yellow Submarine (1968), the animated feature film based around the music of the Beatles, was a fixture on British TV when I was growing up in the 70s. I must have seen it half a dozen times before I became … Continue reading Nothing is Real: One More Trip in the Yellow Submarine
I’ve been a fan of sibling art-rockers Sparks for many years, from seeing them on Top of the Pops in the 1970s (John Lennon, Hitler on the telly, blah) to seeing them many times live at various locations with my … Continue reading Oy, the Mael Boys Already!
If you speak to anyone born in the early 70s, they’ll always have a soft spot for Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of the War of the Worlds. That’s because there was a copy in almost every house in Great Britain; … Continue reading Love & Terror: Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of the War of the Worlds
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