Album: The Future Kings of England, Who Is This Who Is Coming? (Backwater)
Friday 10 February 2012
Suffolk-based rustic psych-rockers The Future Kings Of England offer on their fourth album the soundtrack for a creepy ghost story written in 1904 by M R James, in which a sceptical professor has his certainties rattled when he finds a Bronze Age whistle and with it summons up... who knows what?
Album: Air, Le Voyage dans la Lune (EMI)
Friday 03 February 2012
Having revealed their sci-fi leanings on their Moon Safari debut, Air were the natural choice to create the soundtrack for the newly restored print of Georges Méliès' 1902 silent film, Le Voyage dans la Lune.
All you need is a big fat wallet to record at Abbey Road
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Wealthy guests at the Savoy Hotel will be allowed to take over Abbey Road and add amateur recordings to its heritage in a move that will horrify Beatles obsessives for whom the recording studios are sacred ground.
How We Met: Jill Furmanovsky & Storm Thorgerson
Sunday 18 December 2011
'To my shame, I was initially more interested in her chest than her portfolio'
The deluxe side of the moon is record industry's answer to downloading
Saturday 24 September 2011
You've already got the album on vinyl, cassette and CD.
Electric Eden, By Rob Young
Friday 05 August 2011
Those who experienced the musical annus mirabilis of 1967 will recall the brief flowering of the Incredible String Band, a group that influenced both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Paul McCartney chose their waxing 5,000 Spirits as his most treasured LP of 1967. Anyone too young or too old to turn on to the Summer of Love may be mystified by the appeal of this record. Though described by Young as "an infinitely more intimate and disorienting happening" than Sergeant Pepper, non-believers are liable to view it as self-indulgent caterwauling.
Album: Soft Hearted Scientists, Wandermoon (The Hip Replacement)
Friday 05 August 2011
Whimsical psychedelia must be like mother's milk to the Welsh.
Sean O'Grady: What to do with our 14-year-olds
Thursday 28 July 2011
When Digby Jones says that disruptive 14-year-olds should be allowed to quit school and "go out and earn a few bob", he ought to know that this is not really what they want.
They're making their minds up: civil servants to rule who's real Bucks Fizz
Saturday 16 July 2011
For some music fans, one Bucks Fizz is more than enough. But now the original band members are locked in a legal battle to decide which of two rival acts are the real Eurovision winners.
Gilmour son jailed over rampage
Friday 15 July 2011
The son of Pink Floyd rock star David Gilmour gave a final defiant wave to the press gallery today as he was led away to start a lengthy prison sentence for a drink and drug fuelled rampage during last year's tuition fees protests.
Album: The Horrors, Skying (XL)
Sunday 10 July 2011
This is the one. You may remember, in 2009, the clamour of critics lauding The Horrors for – shock, er, horror – actually making a good album with their second effort, Primary Colours. I was practically a lone sceptic, sulking and tutting on my own in the corner.
Vaughan Williams wins first 'Desert Island Discs' vote
Sunday 12 June 2011
David Lister: When audience participation resembles sexual harassment
Saturday 11 June 2011
Donovan: Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Buddha and me
Sunday 22 May 2011







