The Glove ‘Blue Sunshine’ (Wonderland/Polydor, 1983)

byJeremy Allen
July 11, 2024

Side projects were everywhere in the 1980s. Talking Heads had Tom Tom Club, David Bowie had Tin Machine and Duran Duran managed to split into two rival factions as Arcadia and The Power Station

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LAIKA ‘Silver Apples Of The Moon’ (Too Pure, 1994)

byRichard Skinner

Laika should be much better known than they are...

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Peter Gabriel ‘Birdy’ (Charisma, 1985)

byNeil Mason

When they first came out, I was slightly too young to appreciate Peter Gabriel’s four, self-titled solo albums that spanned 1977-1982, but ‘Birdy’, his first film soundtrack, really caught my attention.

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Disco Inferno ‘Technicolor’ (Rough Trade)

byNeil Mason

It’s 1996, Britpop is all-seeing and Rough Trade couldn’t give a hoot.

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Paddy Mcaloon

byJools Stone

In 1991, Prefab Sprout frontman Paddy Mcaloon was struck down with serious illness that led to perhaps his boldest work, 2003’s ‘I Trawl The Megahertz’, a fever-dream of skittish longing that deserves ear time

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Element ‘Sourblaster’ (Creeping Bent, 2000)

byJames Thornhill

Few music discovery anecdotes start with “I was rugby tackled by a man in a cinema because he liked my T-shirt”, but discovering Lancashire oddballs Element starts like that for me.

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