Unthought of, though, somehow

It's a long held belief among a couple of my closest friends, that I'd been unwittingly clobbered by Covid very early on -  here  in...

It's Monday morning, the sun is out, my washing is steaming on the line in the garden and I've just flipped open my laptop for the f...

I was 9 years old in July of 1969, the perfect age to be captivated and obsessed by all things space travel related. Unfortunately my...

Still working at the age of 71, Ken Boothe is probably best known to the world at large for his cover of Bread's 'Everything I Ow...

Across three slabs of wax, the 2002 Soul Jazz compilation 'Studio One Scorcher Instrumentals' offers up pretty much what it says o...

The first Factory Records 12" single to find its way into my collection was Fac 11, the powerful 'English Black Boys' by Manche...

There we were, Dad and I, wandering around a school fete in Leytonstone forty nine years ago, when I spotted the Hackney Speedway stall tu...

When Frank Dowding embraced Rastafarianism in the early 1970s, he amended his name to Kiddus I, Amharic for 'blessed one', and be...

In the early 1980s, purely because I worked in a local record shop, I was offered the opportunity to host my own Hospital Radio show. Visi...

I just heard the sad news that the London based, Jamaican vocalist Michael Prophet passed away on Saturday, at the age of 60. Prophet...

Following the 1973 release of their sixth LP, 'Burnin'', founding members Bunny Livingston and Peter Tosh left The Wailers, a...

Leading purveyors of the Nyabinghi sound, Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus have released at least 25 albums over the last 43 years, thou...

It's Mrs S's birthday. I'm writing this a few days ahead of time and we've not yet decided exactly what we're doing b...

The mysterious Dubwood Allstars originally released 'Under Dubwood' in 2012 and I featured it on these very pages at the time. Wh...

Winston Sparkes acquired the nickname 'King Stitt' in his youth, as a result of a pronounced stutter and later decided to adopt i...

Your humble author with his copy of 'Soon Forward', purchased 38 years ago A couple of weeks ago, in the 17th instalment of th...

Your humble author with his battered copy of today's featured tune While sitting in the pub one evening in early 1980, my best pal ...

Thanks to a generous uploader, I managed to catch up up with the Don Letts autobiographical documentary, 'Dread Meets Punk Rockers...

A newsflash guaranteed to make a few of us shuffle a little uncomfortably in our seats.........the debut LP by The Clash is 40 years old ...

Rico Rodriguez was famously adopted by the ska revival movement in the late 1970's, playing with The Specials and eventually releasin...