FOR those of us of a certain age, the news that Liverpool’s best indie disco, Liquidation, had spun its last copy of The Stone Roses’ She Bangs The Drum provoked a Proustian rush up and down the country.Read
PEOPLE often ask me how I ended up living in Liverpool. The boring answer would be that I didn’t get the right grades to get into Manchester University but the more romantic side of me always says it was “because of the music”.Read
IT SEEMS a bit indulgent to quote Nick Hornby’s novel High Fidelity for a second week in a row but has any other author summed up the exquisite detail of independent record shops better than he?Read
IN NICK HORNBY’s peerless novel about male musical fandom, High Fidelity, everyman hero Rob’s nemesis is Ian – a man whose dungarees and terrible cooking smells summed up his love for “African, Latin, Bulgarian, whatever world music fad was trendy that week.”Read
SO A few days ago I was asked to do something which I thought, just for a minute may actually impress my children: appear on BBC One’s children’s current affairs show Newsround. (As it was, the four-year-old just wanted to watch Octonauts and the little one just cried; but, hey-ho!).Read
THE image of the four girls from Little Mix hung suspended on 40ft wires was manna from heaven for those who would like to paint Simon Cowell as some kind of evil puppet master.Read
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