Jay Burnett
Sit back, relax and enjoy another trip with our esteemed columnist. You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried
Wormhole World
Location: Lancashire and South Wales Est: 2018
George Evelyn
George Evelyn picks out the first and last records he bought and the one he turns to in an emergency
DARREN PRICE ‘Under The Flightpath’ (NovaMute, 1997)
As Darren Price’s ‘Under the Flightpath’ landed on my desk, I was about to fly away.
Scanner
Scanner takes the chair and BRACES HIMSELF FOR the QUICK-fire question machine
COSEY FANNI TUTTI ‘Tutti’ (Conspiracy International)
“My work is a continuum, the past feeding the present and vice versa. The album is an interpretation…
Ultramarine: Mirror, signal, manoeuvre
Even on their 1990 debut, Essex’s Ultramarine were ahead of the game. their new ‘Signals In space’ album is yet another evolution, drawing on their love of field recordings, post-rock and house music…
The Kpm All Stars: Music To Watch TV By
Celebrating the 1970s golden age of TV themes are The Kpm All Stars, whose members Alan Hawkshaw and Brian Bennett composed classics such as ‘Grange Hill’ and ‘Countdown’. thanks to their sterling work, library music is cooler than ever
Secession: The one that got away
Cool band, good-looking singer, major label deal, infectious tunes. the Top 40 beckoned for 1980s Glasgow outfit Secession… some 18 years after the death of frontman Peter Thomson, we tell the story of a group who shouldn’t have fallen by the wayside
Mike Vickers: Song of The Unsung
From 60s R&B pop fame in Manfred Mann, to The Beatles’ Moog advisor and subversive 70s synth sorcerer, Mike Vickers is the quiet man of British electronic music