The Stranglers’ true influence has always been underrated. Goth before it was codified as such in their all black uniforms, the Guildford misfits

A Berklee School drop-out, Kurt Ralske moved to the UK in the mid-80s where the Jesus And Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine’s fuzzy logic

Few acts produced music with the sheer energy of Gunshot. Although this is only their second single, the Eastenders had already defined a discrete sonic template

Psychedelic Technicolor Dream’ was an oddity from the off. While Calvin White’s soaring lead should have propelled the New York vocal trio’s first single ‘Forget It’

This blog kicks off, appropriately, with the B-side of the first single I bought with my own money. It cost 45p – my weekly pocket money – from Callers in Ponteland (a furniture shop with a small record department upstairs),