3 days ago Songs Of The Week 2021: Take 2 Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Bloomsday: Samantha Crain Our return to the gym felt like an invitation to relative freedom as the...
Mar 27 Songs Of The Week 2021: Take 1 Neil Morton FEATURED SONG OF THE WEEK Deserving: John Smith John Smith’s new album The Fray has arrived like vaccine for the soul. The...
Feb 27 A ride called nostalgia: My 20 favourite fairground songs Phil Shaw The funfair, as distinct from the carnival and circus, has provided a rich seam of material for songwriters. Surprisingly, a...
Dec 24, 2020 My Songs of the Year: From Gabriels to Dylan and The Avalanches Phil Shaw 1: Love And Hate In A Different Time – Gabriels An extraordinary song for momentous times from the Los Angeles trio. Yes, there...
Dec 19, 2020 Songs Of The Week 2020: Take 3 When Rosanne Cash sings ‘Deliver me from tweets and lies’, there can be only one person she has in mind. But her timely new track, Crawl…
Aug 30, 2020 Songs Of The Week 2020: Take 2 Rhiannon Giddens always sings passionately about racial and social injustice, from slavery to civil rights. Now she takes on the gaslighters
May 16, 2020 From Aretha to Nina via The Czars: My top 50 greatest cover versions Cover versions can be divisive, among bands as well as fans; I recall Graham Nash fleeing The Hollies over their decision to record an LP of
Apr 27, 2020 Boss class: My fifty favourite songs by Bruce Springsteen Inspired by a recent Guardian piece by Alexis Petridis, listing the best 50 Bob Dylan songs, here is my (very subjective) top half-century…
Apr 17, 2020 Songs Of The Week 2020: Take 1 In My Room: a perfect title to describe the humble songwriter’s location of necessity during the global shutdown. From their rooms they've…
Feb 17, 2020 Oddball's Coming Home: 10 leftfield songs about sport A 1968 single by Townshend, Daltrey, Entwhistle and Moon, and a relative flop which peaked at No25, Dogs is about greyhound racing, beer…
