Chris Gilson's blog

Like something from Awakenings, the Stone Roses bandwagon has once again rumbled into life.This time, however, with good cause: the potential reunion of the ‘classic’ 1989 line up, burying of hatchets all round and even a third (fourth if you’re ...

Those of us of a certain age will possibly remember the budget Hallmark record label from the 1970s (and possibly 1980s). Chiefly remembered for putting pneumatic young girls in spandex clothing on albums of diabolical cover versions such as the ...

The death of Roger Keith Barrett on July 7 2006 finally drew a line under one of the most prolonged and tragic sagas ever to occur in the turbulent world of popular music. Once known as ‘Syd’, the co-founder of rock dinosaurs Pink Floyd (he gave ...

 Where the Action Is: La Nuggets 1965-1968First, the earth cooled. Then, the Beatles went to America. And after they came back (and went again several times), others followed en-masse creating what rapidly became known as ‘the British ...

After years of being passed over for the glossiness of other genres, folk is now starting to make a resurgence – and not before time too. Not so long ago, the popular perception of folk music was your archetypal arran-sweatered, bewhiskered ...

It’s never easy to eat a huge slice of humble pie, especially when you’ve previously been so vociferous in your opinions, but I think that in my revision of views on the Beatles re-mastering, a particularly large slice is about to be served up, ...

Ah, it’s another re-mastering blog. Is that “God, no!” I hear you say, coupled with the sounds of millions of mouse buttons being clicked rapidly away? Well relax, chaps – the targets for tonight are those nutty, noisy Beatles, who are set to ...

 It’s somewhat frightening, especially for those of a certain age, to think that it’s 20 years since the Stone Roses' eponymous first album hit the shops. A lot has happened since then - a change of Government, ill-advised dabbling in ...

Luke Haines: Bad VibesIt’s a fine line between insanity and genius, so they say, and Luke Haines certainly seems to not only have a foot in both camps, but also to have defined the boundaries.The man who brought us the woefully overlooked ...