New & Features

For Weller fans, and indeed music fans in general, this double disc package is yet another desirable piece of musical entertainment from the Modfather, this time both visually as well as aurally. The DVD disc contains a full 26 track set from one of his five nights at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Drawing…

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The press release begins with, “The Ocean Colour Scene story should already be the stuff of legend; a rip-roaring rock ‘n’ roll odyssey set to a backdrop of 21 years of UK pop culture at its very best.” I think another thing worth adding, beyond the fact that OCS have that rare accolade of making…

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If you thought that Motown was little more than pop tunes and cheesy soul found at school reunions and wedding receptions, then this album can change all that. You see beyond the slow numbers like Ben, and bubblegum soul of Stop in The Name of Love (neither of which are on here by the way),…

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And about time too, for unless you’ve caught the Hotknives at one of their rare UK performances over the last few years, you’re not going to have heard much in the way of new material from them recently. Formed in the late 80s as part of the ‘3rd Wave of Ska’ The Hotknives toured alongside…

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Yes, it’s THE Tony Christie  – the man who many know as searching for Amarillo has signed to Acid Jazz  and releases his first single with them on 1 November, a Northern Soul number. In fact Acid Jazz tell us it’s Tony’s first Mod record since he was produced by Shel Talmy in 1966. Written…

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The Very Best of the Undertones is released on 11 October and is our second offering from Northern Ireland this month. Emerging from Derry in the punk boom of 1977-78, The Undertones gave us a fine selection of short sharp songs with infectious choruses – kind of pop music with attitude for those that don’t…

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