February 2009 Archives

ROCK legend Tina Turner is on her way to her first UK tour in a decade, and I've got a pair of tickets for her April 4 show at the MEN Arena, plus four copies of her album Tina The Platinum Collection to give away.

Liverpool promoter Mike Deane is in the final 6 for the UK Young Music Entrepreneur 2009.
The founder and co-director of annual festival Liverpool Music Week beat thousands of entries to make the final of the British Council run award.

FORGET where they were when Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon or even when Liverpool won the Champions League in Istanbul, every musician remembers their first gig.
Whether a triumph or disaster, the moment any band make their first tentative steps onto a stage is forever etched onto their minds.

I'M COMING to the conclusion that music doesn't divide neatly into genres. There is only good music and bad.
But there is one more functional subdivision within the good: iconic, durable anthems and throwaway pop. Ian McCulloch makes the former.

AS A teenager, Jonny 'Itch' Fox found himself homeless in London and turned to selling The Big Issue.
Now a few years later, his band, The King Blues, find themselves signed to Island Records, with their songs being played on Radio 1...

PETE Waterman famously said that there were two great British pop bands: The Beatles and The Stranglers. Now I don't tend to take Pete's views as gospel (remember One True Voice, anyone?) but I have to agree that The Stranglers were one of the bands that shaped British music...

He once sang about being a young cowboy and living on the range with just horse and cattle for companions.
Now, as James Taylor approaches his 61st birthday, the lyrics of his 1970 smash hit single Sweet Baby James appear to have become a reality.