The below piece was written in August 2008. This was when YouTube had been in existence for less than three years and before the explosion of social media. Facebook wasn’t a thing yet and most people were still tinkering with their first MySpace pages at the time. Its impossible to

During September 2018, I was invited to participate in Classic Album Sunday’s upcoming celebration of Sonic Youth’s ‘Daydream Nation’. This was to take place in the form of a full album playback and talk by myself and other guests at Portsmouth’s excellent Pie & Vinyl record shop. Having been given

Originally published 6th January 2009. Sad days again. It would appear that Ron Asheton, guitarist with the Stooges has been found dead at his home in Michigan. Cause of death has been reported as a heart attack. I’m truly saddened by this because I love the Stooges. I have loved

An opinion piece from 2010. I think the reference to ‘emotional hardcore’ in the final paragraph was probably past its sell by date even back then. I wasn’t the target market for Emo, so how was I supposed to know? Cor…shredding became unfashionable for a long time didn’t it? Now

Note- This piece was originally published in the July 2010 issue of Guitar & Bass Magazine. It is reprinted here in its entirety, without the unintentional cut made by the sub-editor that ruined the final paragraph. The story of the Ramones is the story of a band who were arguably

A couple of years ago, a friend of mine got in touch to say that he was interested in finding out about Hawkwind and could I tell him more. So, I sent him a message in return which I hoped would be helpful. He replied a few days later saying