Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Scratching that Itch – A Year in the Music of Lee Perry

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Presents Confusion: The Jamaican Upsetter Singles 1971 One of the reasons I love music is the way that it captures an unrepeatable moment in time – thoughts, emotions, character, mistakes, genius, and madness saved forever, to be savoured long after everyone concerned has passed away. Little captures that feeling of peering into […]

Car Boot Weekends – The Joy of Jetsam

For the last couple of years, I have slowly – that is to say, quite quickly, become addicted to attending car boot fairs. Luckily, the small Cambridgeshire village I live in is equidistant to two fairs – one on Saturday, the other the day after. I don’t think I’ve ever come away with nothing, though […]

Motown Who? Michigan’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Roots

va – Motor City is Burning A Michigan Anthology 1965-1972 If Motown’s brilliant PR is to be believed, Michigan’s contribution to music starts and ends with Detroit soul. Actually, that’s unfair. You’d get a token gesture of MC5 or maybe even The Stooges thrown in as well. Sorted. Except that Michigan was bristling with music […]

One of The Residents’ Most Monumental Albums – Doctor Dark reviewed

Split into three acts, the latest new material from The Residents draws heavily upon two significantly troubling events of the late 20th Century – the trial by puppets of Judas Priest as they defended themselves against accusations of hiding subliminal messages within their songs which could drive the vulnerable to attempt suicide, and Jack Kevorkian, […]

God In Three Persons – The Residents Embrace The Compact Disc

The Cryptic Corporation’s tireless piecing together of studio crumbs shows no sign of slacking. ‘God in Three Persons’ represents a milestone for The Residents, a period when they were forced to adapt to outside forces impacting both the way they worked and how they were experienced by their audiences. We’re in 1988 and the CD has […]