Better late than never? Once more, I promised myself that I’d actually do some writing this year and update the website properly. And once more I got a bit waylaid; this time…

Better late than never? Once more, I promised myself that I’d actually do some writing this year and update the website properly. And once more I got a bit waylaid; this time…
The week off is virtually over (in the interests of drudgery: didn’t make a doctor’s appointment or fill in the passport renewal form; DID join the local library). DID start writing the…
This year is just flying by: to the point where we’re already being clattered by the first of the End Of Year Lists (this one being pretty close to home). In case…
Due to, what I’m assuming is a clerical error, made a junior member of contracts staff, who’s now left to become a CEO of Poundland, it appears I’m still on the BBC…
Joe Talbot, Idles singer, is, as we know, a man who looks like the bloke in your town who gets filthy drunk on a Saturday night and stands in the High Street…
Marvellously and hauntingly, a song that does virtually nothing; an “unsung” as they describe it. ‘They’ being the mysterious “anti-music collective” Moderate Rebels, who among other things released a jolly good album…
Festivals and touring have kept us apart for weeks, but here I am, still banging on about BODEGA. Even more so, with the delayed, but still imminent arrival of their debut album…
Just back from SXSW, the massive showcase festival in Austin, Texas, which features something daft like 2000 bands in five days, in scores of venues across the city. Well, I say,…
I don’t mind a bit hyperbole, me (quelle surprise!). But bugger me the Bloggers Guide to SXSW 2018 is hard work. It’s like being at a party full car dealers, or…
In some ways, and for most bands, going backwards at a time when you’re already, definitely, moving forwards would make little sense. But there is a wilfulness to our Will.…