You never forget where and when you bought your first records. I was ten years old and adored Blondie. I can't recall how much I paid fo...

The C86 NME cassette was released at just the right time in my life, I had just started going to gigs and so may bands featured were being p...

A couple of weeks ago I was one of the 120 lucky souls who manged to get on The Barrowland Doors Open day for 2024. Once a year the doors ar...

When I was in my early to mid-20's I used to DJ (in the loosest sense of the word) in a club in East Kilbride called Crystal's on a ...

Yesterday's post was about The Jam, a band I never got to see live as I was too young. Today's post is about a band that I adore who...

I was thirteen when The Jam split up - I couldn't get my young head around the most popular band in Britain splitting up at the height o...

Gary Crowley has given us two box sets of wonderful lost 80's tracks featuring lesser known acts like The Suede Crocodiles, Friends Agai...

For me, Raymond Carver is one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. His stories often depict the struggles of eve...

Nostalgia is a powerful drug, especially the older you get. When you are young, you are developing your sense of self. The things we do, the...

JuJu was one of the first albums I ever bought, from a  long departed department store in Glasgow called Lewis's. Not that I knew it at ...