It's been a long while since I featured Ted Chippington on the blog but those original posts still get plenty of hits, and it's wo...

I posted in praise of Eggs a couple of years back but I can’t say I ever remembered them doing a Peel Session. Apparently though, they d...

Childhood memories of Christmas aren't complete without this ridiculous flexidisc that came free with Smash Hits magazine in December...

I suddenly thought about this today as 1) it's another classic Yorkshire flexidisc from the late 1980's and 2) it's pretty m...

This is another one for my chum Ricky at the Electronic Vibes blog Electronic Vibes He recently posted the first single by Leeds ban...

Oh go on - while I'm at it. If anyone thinks I am working through these DAT-sourced Peel Sessions in alphabetical order then you might...

To celebrate John Peel Day I thought I'd post another obscure Peel Session (again direct from the source DAT not off-air recording). ...

Another DAT-sourced Peel Session in pristine quality – this time from Ian McCulloch circa his first solo album “Candleland”. Given that...

A quick response to a request via the Peel Group. Here we have the 2nd Peel Session from Cranes. I always thought of them as a sort of de...

I keep getting so close to posting, I have lots of new stuff to rant about (not least the new Pete Astor album and my continuing experimen...

Another Edwyn Collins-based request I’m afraid – this time an unusual promo from 1997 – being a double white label 12” pack featuring a s...

The fourth and final batch of my Sounds Of The Seventies experiment are: 1971 Beaver & Krause – Gandharva 1970 Emitt Rhodes – Emit...

Last week saw this year's Record Store Day - not just here in the UK, but in the US too. A fine idea in principle and one that I...

The third batch of my Sounds Of The Seventies experiment are: 1972 Jorge Ben – Ben 1971 Spring – Spring 1972 D.R. Hooker – The Truth ...

The second batch of my Sounds Of The Seventies experiment are: 1973 Dan Penn – Nobody’s Fool 1974 Lamont Dozier – Black Bach 1974 Ric...

Getting so frustrated with every new band I hear sounding like a poor-copy of a band from 20 years ago who already sounded like a poor-co...

Yesterday was one of those brilliant days where things conspire to make you smile constantly. We woke up to the news that my chum Stev...

If you want to follow me talking mostly about football, sometimes about music, but always about nothing then I'm on Twitter @frankoson...

Before I start, I just want to be 100% clear about quite how much I love this boxset. It feels like a long wait to finally have all this...

Today would have been John Pyle’s 40th birthday. I owe him an awful lot and I wish he was still around. The link is to a zip file of so...

Having been a bit mean about Morrissey only a few days ago, I thought I'd redeem myself by posting this one up. I don't normall...

It seems like the whole world has had something to say about Captain Beefheart since his death last week, so I almost didn’t bother to ad...

Phew – I’m glad that’s all over. Now I can get on with the rest of my life. Morrissey - It's Not Your Birthday Anymore Like most ...

Happy happy birthday to me. This song seems appropriate given the particular anniversary of my shooting forth from my mother’s birth ca...

Fish - Derby University December 13th 2010 I briefly mentioned my childhood love of Marillion once before on this blog (item 6 in this...

My intention when I posted this about the later works of Lou Reed, was that I would follow it up with more examples of artists with hid...

On the same tape as the Joe Henry album I talked about here were a couple of other artists I didn't know and one of them was Black L...

Yo La Tengo are one of those bands that have been around for years and years and consistently released good records, yet never seem to h...

In 1987 a new record shop opened in Derby called BPM owned by the chap who had previously run R.E.Cords on Sadler Gate (the first record ...

Further fall-out from the Music Avalanche , this time Morphine who I think we must have seen on Later With Jools Holland playing their ...