Depeche Mode? ‘No thanks. I mean its New Romantic, isn’t it?’ All synthesizer and drum machine. As Saxon were telling me back in 1981, it was ‘denim and leather’ that ‘brought us all together’ not blouses and leather. My musically-myopic [...Read More]
About Steven G. Titley
Set The Boy Free
‘Show me the boy and I’ll show you the man’ – Johnny Marr’s autobiography Set The Boy Free “January, sick and tired you’ve been hanging on me.” No, not a Johnny Marr tune but the opening line from Pilot’s 1975 [...Read More]
The Fall – ‘making music great’ (again)
Fibbers, York on Saturday 19th November 2016 “With The Fall you can never be absolutely certain what you’re gonna get…sometimes it may not be what you want— but— they’re The Fall and that’s all you need” John Peel from the [...Read More]
THE FAT WHITE FAMILY – my fave new band
“I am Mark E Smith” goes the title of the fifth single from the Fat White Family both catnip and dog-whistle for the discerning music lover of a certain age and some younger but just as discerning. Well we all [...Read More]