THINGS ain’t what they used to be. Frank Allen fondly remembers a time before the days of auto-tune and X Factor when the music business was a little less polished.Read
IT was Tony Wilson, or more accurately Steve Coogan playing Tony Wilson in 24 Hour Party People, that said: “Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.”Read
CULTURAL history is littered with troubled souls. In a quest for substance and gritty reality, there is rarely an artistic substitute for the “been there done that” mentality.Read