AN ALTERNATIVE ALTERNATIVE ULSTER STORY
An Alternative Ulster Story London was the Alternative Ulster many Norn Irons sought - after we’d coined the much mimic’d term with the...
DOO WOP DAVID CROSBY DIAMONDS FALLING DOWN LIKE RAIN
Doo Wop!! I wanna listen to this stuff for a month. Ok that was ...random , maybe, Doo Wop is NOT a rainbow colour PARTICULARLY present...
WELLER: METEORIC MATURITY
Paul Weller was such a formative part of so many musical lives. Not mine really, I was entrenched and in the trenches already when In The...
PUNK IS REAL ISRAEL IS PUNKED ?
Ha how weird this weekend outside what was once The Trident - the place where SLF debuted a song called Alternative Ulster for me to...
ROTTEN BANGERS AND MASH
Here as promised the full text of a recent interview, a few weeks (months? who's counting) ago with Johnny Rotten John Lydon who will...
CANDI TEETERING ON THE AGE OF THE ETERNALS
She's known hell and She's Known Tears and She's survived to See Off all Those Fears A few weeks when I last spoke to Candi, promoting...
ANTHONY ST ANTHONY PLEASE DON'T COME AROUND
There he is on the right of the picture - Jon Anthony, the Paedophile Bangor DJ (now expired) referred to in yesterday's post on Bangor...
LIE DOWN...I THINK I LOVED YOU
JOHNNY’s coming to town. The town I was raised in to be precise - Bangor on the County Down the place where they thought they were doing...
PUNK VET VANIAN REFLECTS ...on The Damned, Bolan, Bowie, The Pistols & more
Dave Vanian hasn't done many interviews in the past, apparently, even absenting himself from them for the official book on The Damned by...
From The Archive - VAN THE MAN AT THE North Sea Jazz HYPERMARKET July 2012
A review written for Van’s Website VAN MORRISON North Sea Jazz Festival Rotterdam, July 2017 With 150 performances taking place on 13...