I assume anyone who picks up an instrument, can sing, and performs hopes that they will be successful. Success can be that you can write a song, perform in a local pub, get a John Peel Session, record a single or an album. If you have done any of these things then you are a success, doesn’t matter if it sold five copies or a million, you still did it. How about being successful then coming back again and being even bigger. That’s exactly what guitarist Andy Cox and bass pla

The two things I would say I am knowledgeable about are football and music, anything else I forget because I am not really interested, my much better half cracks up because we go on holiday and within a week of being home I cannot remember the name of the hotel we were in, if I’d have bumped into Kenny Dalglish or Mick Jones in the hotel then it would be engraved in my mind forever but alas that has yet to happen. However am I really that knowledgeable about music, I thought

In the old days you did a tour in the hope that people would then buy the record as that’s where the money was. With income from streaming this has reversed as touring has now become the main income for a band. Many bands tour but haven’t released a new record in years, New Order eleven years, Echo and the Bunnymen twelve years, Human League fourteen years, Massive Attack sixteen years. Sisters of Mercy laugh at these bands releasing such recent music as they have not relea