Seven Days In

There have been a lot of albums that raised money for charity and the Warchild "Help!" album was a major flagship, produced in ne...

Most people see Kraftwerk's music as machine music and came to them via "The Robots" or "Showroom Dummies" or if th...

 At the weekend was talking about my favourite New Order songs and my top two I thought were "Temptation" and "Love Vigilant...

 The first two days of this week I didn't actually go out for a walk , and on Tuesday I virtually didn't leave the house. I know in...

I'm halfway through "Weaveworld" and it's still got me grabbed, maybe because it touches on so many places that are f...

I don't do blog posts when I'm away on short breaks although I haven't posted in nearly a week, which is quite a long blogg...

Just shoved together two of my most liked record labels Factory from Manchester and Zoo from Liverpool because I do  have a book calle...

This is the second "Blue Monday" I've included in the #AprilSongs sequence the other was Buddy Holly's cover of the...

For the #AprilSongs sequence I have been surprised how many options there are for each day. At the beginning I was sure "Blue Mo...

I woke from an amazingly complex dream , just having to deal with people who don't understand reality. It reminded me of a situati...

Today I didn't want to wake or get up because the dream I was in was actually quite enjoyable and comforting despite being in a s...

Vietnam? Every so often I get a reasonable amount of views from some places. Recently it's been Russia, Germany, Peru and Braz...

There is a flying ant on the outside of my window pane, and the sky is a uniform grey. It is a Friday morning and 6Music is celebra...

On the third floor of Commercial Union House on Northumberland Street among a lot of wall art is 586 Records. It's been there fou...

I took the title from a line from "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End" the Vivian Stanshall film and monologue that first appeared a...

Well I did the Million Step Challenge, though you have to take my word for it that I did it, because I did it solo, and as most of the...

I'm Top 10 Rightly or wrongly, these days I probably listen to most of my music on the move. The is wholly due to my decision t...

I am quite surprised that I don't seem to have ever mentioned Joy Division in this blog. I have written about New Order and The Ha...

As I write this I am being hit by a severe Denial of Service Attack . I would have thought that my ISP , Virgin would protect me from th...

This morning I learned something new. I was convinced that Bryan Ferry had covered The Everly Brothers Temptation , an amazing song, but...