Song of the Day: SPOOKY - Stereo (1995)

Around 1994/5 bands like Orbital, Leftfield and Underworld threatened to take electronic music into stadium rock territory in terms of popularity and spectacle. It never quite happened that way. Similarly, Spooky always seemed on the verge of joining the big league but never quite got there.
The duo of Charlie May and Duncan Forbes first came [...]

The Seven Ages Of Rock - Episode Five

I’ve not mentioned this series for a few weeks. The last three episodes have exhibited the now familiar mixture of the trite and the hyperbolic, combined with some decent footage. The punk one was basically the ‘Jon Savage Authorised Version’ which has become the standard text for punk rock history. The metal one was pretty [...]