Of all the bands that were unfairly shackled to the genre of Britpop in the mid-1990s by the then unimaginative British music press, Suede is perhaps the only band that have retained any semblance of their original dynamic and more importantly their artistic credibility....

We are never satiated and why the hell should we be?...

The Wedding Present have always played the game on their own terms....

What we had at the Bodega were two bands that are still at the chrysalis stage of evolution, but already have that mischievous sparkle and charisma that has shone through in their limited musical output and even less media exposure...

How could they? How dare they? Don’t they realise it’s all over? Arrogance? cool? They don’t even realise that they have both in abundance. The punctured bubble of rock and roll has just re-formed and is on the way back to the surface to bathe in a new light....

Paul Draper was supposed to play his solo material & fan-chosen Mansun tracks....

Robert Plant has continued to peruse a creative and explorative musical path right up to the present day....

Paul Draper, ex-lead singer with Mansun, has been away from the musical hoi polloi for many years, but with a new album recently released he has ventured out on tour....

One 2017 event of note was the reappearance of Greg Dulli and his clan of accompanying minstrels....