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Pop music


Every so often a band resurfaces, and people proclaim them as some sort of ironic “guilty pleasure”, as if good music should be embarrassing! We’ve seen it loads in recent times with the likes of ABBA and Sparks. Now, I’m not about to join the trend but I did bloody love this band back in …

We need something upbeat in these pressing times, don’t we? Maybe we are at that point where modern pop music is actually a respite from what’s going on around the world. It doesn’t get more unabashed when it comes to a pop single with East Harbour‘s new track, “Miss The Old You.” Formed back in …

If you like your music good, and your artists championing women in music, then listen close and look no further: I introduce to you, dear reader, Ysabelle Wombwell and her latest release, ‘Shoeboxes’. Ysabelle Wombwell has become something of a local legend in The City of Culture, working closely with The PRS Foundation, as well …

I started writing this thinking that maybe Josef Salvat sounded a bit like James Blake but then i realised that the only time I had heard James Blake was on Jools Holland and I wasn’t really paying attention so I had to go and listen to some James Blake (we might come back to that …