Know the artist like the back of my hand, have heard of them and have a good knowledge of them, vaguely think I know of them, do know them but never actually heard a song or “not got a bloody clue.” Guess what? Morphine are in the not got a bloody clue category. Time for a trawl of the internet and several listens. Morphine were together for ten years releasing five albums and tragically ended when lead singer Mark Sandman died of a heart attack live on stage and the band di

Remember Sub Sub who went top ten with Ain’t No Love as Melanie Williams belted out the song that stormed the charts, well the men behind this track were Jimi Goodwin and brothers Jez and Andy Williams and after this track we didn’t really hear from them again. Unluckily for the band on the Williams brother’s birthday their studio burned down and instead of packing it in they decided to start afresh as Doves. Was this unlucky in the long run? Six albums, five of them top ten

I am eleven in 1982, and music is something I Like, well I watch Top of the Pops. My late father’s records sit in a cupboard; my mother never plays them and although I have looked at them, I have no interest in listening to them and keep asking her why she didn’t just throw them away. Now as a fifty-five-year-old man I see she was a young woman in her early thirties grieving for the loss of her husband so she would have no desire to throw them away, they were part of him and