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I LOVE THIS TOWN! 💙 As I plough through the highways and byways of the pop wonderland, it never ceases to amaze where i might end up. At every twist and turn, in every genre, there are hundreds, thousands of opportunities to turn your day with The Sound Of Music. Often we find some of… Continue reading THE SOUND OF MUSIC HAPPENING THINGS: The Real Thing – You To Me Are Everything.

Where did he go? Out. What did he do? Everything. There is no golden age of music – everybody lives through their own era and gets the music they deserve. Some people nowadays might decry the lack of great, contemporary music, but that’s only because it might be slightly more difficult to find, even though… Continue reading THE SOUND OF MUSIC HAPPENING THINGS: Brian Eno David Byrne – Regiment.

In the nineties, fanciful ideas like having a locally based alternative radio station were fair game. It seemed alright to think out of the box, things could only get better. That future that Johnny Rotten said didn’t exist, was just around the corner. Twenty years late. I had an idea to start a pirate radio station. Just… Continue reading ANOTHER GOLDEN MOMENT: Crash FM

somebody threw me a big juicy curve ball it landed in my hand someone at the back just over there said i should take off the wrapper and eat it as I held out my hand i could see my fingertips clearly but sometimes they were on the end of my hand and sometimes they… Continue reading LOVE.SPECIAL.DELIVERY. (Slight Return).

The first time I ever took magic mushrooms was a cataclysmic experience on all fronts. I was inSnavv’s house in Speke. I was sixteen years old. I’d taken them, of course, with no idea what wasgoing to happen. I’d been led on by the words of older boys who told me that they made you… Continue reading THE SOUND OF MUSIC HAPPENING THINGS: Nilsson – All I Think About Is You.

Joy Division: Darkness and Light.I saw Joy Division many times. They were the revelation of my eighteenth year. They stole everything I had and knew then re-arranged them in an order I may have been able to understand. I was very fortunate to collide with them in that very important part of my life, that… Continue reading JOY DIVISION: DARKNESS AND LIGHT:

As a teenager, I read the music papers religiously. Different papers for different things. As young as I was, I could just about see that each publication had its own angle, their own agenda to put forward, their own readership and how to appease it.In the space of a few weeks in early 1976, punk… Continue reading THE SOUND OF MUSIC HERO OF THE PEOPLE: Steve Jones – What A Fucking Rotter.

I’m jumbled up, maybe I’m losing my touch? If I open my eyes, all I can see is impenetrable fog. Not every day, just at the moment. Can you tell what it is yet? In the strange world of my waking dreams, “Sugar Baby Love” holds a special place. I say these things to Wesley… Continue reading THE SOUND OF MUSIC HAPPENING THINGS: The Rubettes – Sugar Baby Love.

I spent the second half of yesterday ruminating over the loss of a really good friend. I thought about all the things that brought us close together, things like music, British radio comedy, the twinkling of the stars and the turning of the earth. Good things. Jake Brockman was a true gentleman, a scholar and… Continue reading THE SOUND OF MUSIC HAPPENING THING: Creedence Clearwater Revival – I Heard It Through The Grapevine.

The first time I heard “Funky Street” by Arthur Conley was in a van leaving Matthew St in August 1979. The van belonged to Liverpool’s foremost power pop outfit, Yachts. Up front and at the wheel, bass player Martin Dempsey, and riding shotgun, drummer Bob Bellis. In the back, former Yachts singist, John Campbell, Kevin… Continue reading A TRIP IN A VAN: Yachts, Teardrops, Bunnymen, Arthur Conley. August 1979.