Buzzin Music

I just received a copy of “Luminous” by Bill Nelson, recently re-released by Cherry Red Records.   Wow!  What a fantastic piece of work.  It is so hard to only comment on the music as the business side of the equation spills into the story.
Luminous was released after a painful divorce, a lawsuit High Court Case [...]

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I’ve never been a fan of jugs. By which I mean beer glasses with handles, just to clear up any confusion and quell any childish sniggering. I thought their use had peaked in the 70’s and died out in the 80’s. It would appear not to be the case as the beer was thus presented [...]

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It was cold. Very cold. In fact, this was, by some distance, the coldest gig I’ve ever been to. But, as it took place on a restored lightship (or light vessel, more correctly) resting, slightly less than level, on the low-tide mud of the River Medway on a less-than-tropical January evening, it’s probably a wonder [...]

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Following the heady days punk rock there was an explosion of multifaceted music exploration and experimentation that merged music genres, ideas, ethics and politics, and at the centre of all this was The Pop Group.  Part of the emerging Bristol music scene in the late 1970s they were heavily involved with the politics of the [...]

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The first thing to spring to mind, or more accurately the ears I suppose, is the lack of ukelele on this Slumberland/Fortuna Pop! release. Although probably likely to cause slightly less of a scar on pop music’s visage than Dylan turning electric or the Pistols friendly banter with Bill Grundy, it’s [...]

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