Musical Chairs
Steve BradleyA weekly perspective on music every Friday. Information, inspiration, indignation.
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#114 The wonder of Irish trad
Foster & Allen were my gateway drug to the magical and mysterious world of Irish trad.
Tucked away amongst my Dad's slim but select collection of classical, Perry Como and Christmas records were a handful of Irish compilation albums - as a...
#113 Manchester punk turns 50
Their names may not trigger instant recognition but without Howard Trafford and Pete McNeish we may never have heard of Steven Patrick Morrissey, Mark E. Smith, Peter Hook or Ian Curtis.
Trafford and McNeish were Bolton Technical Coll...
#112 Flesh and Blood will always be sacred
Say it again. "It's not their best album. It's really not their best album. In fact, it could be their worst album." OK, keep saying it because I'm not listening. Actually, more than that - I know what you're saying is true, I'm just choosi...
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Have you ever heard a band called Shocking Blue?
No? Think again. This obscure 1960s Dutch outfit not only wrote Bananarama's biggest hit and Nirvana's debut single, they also recorded versions of a future White Stripes classic and an...
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Sometimes, discovery is intentional but arguably it has more impact when it creeps up on you in a most unfamiliar cloak.
And so it was for me twenty years ago this week. A Balkan folk album written by an American teenager apparently f...
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