Happy Tuesday people! Time once again for our weekly retrospective of the UK hit singles from five points in the last twenty five years with #ThrowbackTunesday. Before we get to this week's featured classic hit, let's see what others are joining on it the playlist... 1993: SWV - 'Right Here' 1998: The Corrs - 'What … Continue reading #ThrowbackTunesday: Episode 31
Nostalgia. It's a powerful - and underestimated - thing isn't it? How a smell, a taste, a sound or an image can bring thousands of memories flooding back. The best nostalgia trips thrive on an assault of all these senses. For whilst a few thousand people were descending on Hylands Park in my home city … Continue reading Spice Up London: the 90s girl power pop exhibition that’s giving you everything
ARTIST: Sophie Ellis-Bextor SONG: Love Is You SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Here's something to make pop followers of my age (and older) realise how much time has elapsed. This year is 20 years since pop's very own cool English rose Sophie Ellis-Bextor made her first post-Britpop manoeuvres in short-lived … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Sophie Ellis-Bextor – ‘Love Is You’
Hello all! Welcome to a (slightly later than scheduled) #ThrowbackTunesday, your weekly blast from the UK chart's past to five huge hits from this exact week in the last 25 years. So let's see which songs are on the playlist before we get to our featured hit this week... 1993: The Breeders - Cannonball 1998: … Continue reading #ThrowbackTunesday: Episode 30
It's funny really. I do sometimes forget that I have an audience for this here corner of the web. In fact, whilst not wishing to sound glib, I genuinely believed it was just my good self twittering into the great cyber ether without much of a thought of an audience beyond that. It's only through … Continue reading A nice new accolade from EssexLive
ARTIST: Ward Thomas SONG: Lie Like Me SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? It was only a matter of time before it happened, but UK country's finest sisterly duo Ward Thomas have taken on quite a topical subject matter for their brilliant first single off their forthcoming third album. A scathing, … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Ward Thomas – ‘Lie Like Me’
Welcome to our first #ThrowbackTunesday of a brand new month people. Can you believe it's August (aka the present writer's birthday month) already? (Happy birthday incidentally, to my sister Mairi, who is reading this. Love you sis) As always, before we get to this week's featured classic UK chart hit from this week, let's see … Continue reading #ThrowbackTunesday: Episode 29
