The HOT FRUIT MIX is a monthly guest mix hosted by Alice Platt and featured on James Endeacotts’s Soho Radio show ‘Morning Glory’. Each mix contains 13 songs chosen by Platt, facts about the ...

Two of the folk involved in the Britannia Coconut Dancers and with the Stacksteads Brass Band had invited me to come along ...

A willow uses its soft green tresses to tickle its own reflection in the water A silver stream listens to itself its garbled ...

The bodies in Babitz’s book, which is subtitled ‘The World, The Flesh, and L.A.’, are usually objects of lust, bitchy ...

Growing up in Liverpool in the late 1960s, and into the 1970s there was always music by you know who, (those four lads) ...

A 1977 trip to Glasgow introduced me to the fabulous second-hand bookshop Voltaire and Rousseau, which happily is still ...

– It occurs to me that sometimes I don’t know what we’re talking about. – We gather information and then we put it in our ...

As he explains, ‘I used AI for the first time; the voice you hear was an audio recording of electric guitar which I then ...

And we all get married in the morning.

Knowing how best to develop your sound as you progress as a band or musician is a conundrum which many musicians do not solve. The best, make significant changes in style while retaining their core ...

This morning I had a browse through the latest issue of “Arcadia: A Journal of Newish Verse” which arrived a few days ago and which I usually ignore because it’s guaranteed to be jam-packed full of ...

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Car tyres on fire in Soweto. I watched the sea glitter with luminescence in the dark near Jamaica. I missed the green flash of the setting sun in Key West ...