Much like any young kid growing up in 1970s Britain, “Top Of The Pops” on TV was the main way of actually seeing bands. The first record my mum bought for me was “Gonna Make You A Star” by David Essex, which was 1974, so I obviously started young I had a go at violin and...
I’m from Essex County which is home to some of the most fertile soil in all of Canada. Every year since I was about 12, me and my mom went strawberry picking. It is by far one of my favourite past-times. Living across the country from each other makes the yearly picking a bit ...
Got some good orders from different international shops and hopefully I will be able to afford paying the sleeves’ invoice that will be coming up soon. Press sheet is done, courtesy of the great writing of my friend Emelie, and I just ordered 100 more pins to be given away for free. ...
Record shops though, having gone through a similar decline to the point where there were only a handful of very specialist ones left in London are now going through something of a renaissance thanks largely to the revival of vinyl amongst the younger generations. There is still a thriving music...
In 1989, we broke up of course and interestingly enough since there was not that many great record shops in Cork at that stage, a guy called Brian O’Kelly asked me to help set up a branch of Comet Records in Cork in 1990. Comet were the company that put out our first two songs ...
I suppose there were some really good bands that I liked: A-House, Hey Paulette, Stars of Heaven and Guernica. We all played in an Indie Pub called The Dublin Underground that was where you made your name then onto The Rock Garden which was bigger. We had good record shops in the cit...
called Junktion 7 and he was really kind to us with support slots, The Rescue Rooms was getting up and running, bands like Airport Girl and The Chemistry Experiment were around, labels like Fortuna Pop, Artists Against Success in Derby and record shops like Selectadisc were all going strong....
in Essex, which is where the family settled for the next ten years or so. It was a typical suburban commuter town, about thirty miles from London. I worked for three years on the local newspaper – the Essex Chronicle – before moving up to London to work on a business magazine. Neil...