'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
This review first appeared in The Sunday Tribune October 1996 Revelino ‘Broadcaster’ (Dirt Records) *** Revelino’s ‘Broadcaster’, their second album, is typically stuffed with guitar pout and circular harmonies which, given the obvious confines of time and space and budget is to their credit. So too their laid-back grasp of pop’s key... Continue Reading →
This review first appeared in The Sunday Tribune October 1996 The Beautiful South - Blue is the Colour (Go Discs) **** With their fifth studio album, The Beautiful South will win no new converts but will hardly over-offend sceptics either with a familiar pot of dead good pop songs fuelled by too much beer and... Continue Reading →
Trashcan Sinatras have long been one of my favourite bands and I’ve spent years giving them the shift of death in print, on television and on radio. We got behind them royally during my time on No Disco, where tracks like ‘Hayfever’, ‘I’ve Seen Everything’ and especially ‘The Genius I Was’ appeared as regularly as... Continue Reading →
Like the small handful of others around these parts, it was during their U.K. and Ireland tour supporting Martin Stephenson and The Daintees in 1990 that I encountered Five Guys Named Moe for the first and only time. Between one thing and another, they went to ground pretty much immediately thereafter and, even now, not... Continue Reading →
During the summer of 1996, when I was leading a team about to launch Popscene, a music television show for teenagers, I first heard mention of The Spice Girls. All manner of new music would arrive into the office on a weekly basis from well-meaning pluggers and publicists, much of it of dubious quality, even... Continue Reading →
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