A few years back Polydor let Alex Parks go, and more recently this young fella, Paul Steel. Fortunately for Steel, he saw it as an opportunity to branch out on his own and follow his musical instincts. I wish Parks had done the same… Steel is a young man from Brighton with one acclaimed album [...]

This young lady needs no introduction especially to those very young fans who have avidly followed her various TV movie adventures, and of course bought her first album in the tens of thousands. But just as the young move on to more adventurous music, Tisdale’s management and record company realises that musically she also has to [...]

Having seen Pendulum play live in Liverpool last year, I have to say that this album is very welcome. The band played to a capacity audience of university students who provided one of the most raucous and animated responses I have seen for a long time. It was summer, it was hot, it was a [...]

This is MacIntyre’s fifth album, and the second released under his own label. ISLAND was recorded on the Island of Mull, and includes contributions from King Creosote, the Mendelssohn On Mull festival string players, and local musicians including members of his own family. MacIntyer’s aim was to inject a community feel to the album, even [...]

“Another pivotal point on my becoming a musician was my decision to trade my Sinclair Spectrum 48k computer (with games) for an electric guitar and 15 watt guitar amp… It was when I tried to learn the beatles song ‘I’ve Got A Feeling and couldn’t reach round my neck to play one particular chord that [...]

BLIND BLAKE and the Royal Victoria Hotel Calypsos
‘BAHAMIAN SONGS’
Released 29th June 2009
Megaphone Music
“I was introduced to Blind Blake’s music by Joe Loop, the man who for almost five decades, hung onto Karen Dalton’s earliest known recordings (1962 private recordings now known as THE LOOP TAPES).