They were the great hope, they could barely play, their gigs lasted twenty minutes they hated everything and they had delivered with a debut album that over forty years later is still glorious to these ears. Bobby Gillespie had left the band to focus on Primal Scream full time and for the recording of their second album drum machines replaced him as the Reid brothers went it alone. The band parted with manager Alan McGee and were even able to manage forty-five-minute sets

I’m fifteen in 1986 and never miss an episode of Top of the Pops, The Tube and The Chart Show as I slowly become obsessed with music. There is some guy on The Chart Show with the most imaginative video for a song called Sledgehammer, it becomes a huge hit and the subsequent solo album So is a number one smash. This guy is Peter Gabriel and it’s the first time I have heard of him. Numerous articles at the time informed me that he was the original lead singer of Genesis, but

We are back on Top of the Pops, and a woman is on singing her debut hit, she’s dancing away seven months pregnant rapping and then hitting the chorus with a great voice and really annoying me. Why? I know her, I can’t think why but I know her, but this is pre internet, Buffalo Stance is a wonderful song, something fresh and she is not holding back and looks fantastic. How do I know her, over time you find these things out. I own The The Infected and there she is duetting with