Ian McCulloch: the ‘best band in the world’

Another clip from SkyArts’ Songbook, featuring Echo & The Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch


Ian McCulloch: writing ‘Rescue’

Here’s a clip from SkyArts TV series Songbook, which featured a 50-minute interview with Ian McCulloch, singer with Echo & The Bunnymen


The Smiths - The Draize Train [Nottingham '86]

More Johnny Marr genius. Just couldn’t resist


Neil Finn + Johnny Marr - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

Saw this and it almost made me cry. Sublime


Peter Lorre isn’t really dead. And neither, thankfully, is The Jazz Butcher

For those who don’t know, Pat Fish aka The Jazz Butcher is very nearly the greatest English songwriter of the 1980s. As Alan McGee, the man who signed Oasis, put it: “He’s good a songwriter as I have heard in my life - ever. He has been criminally overlooked by a world obsessed with celebrity, not worth.”