being excited by Michael Jackson's music from such a young age. I remember cassette tapes being excavated at car boot sales and I im...

    ...being aware of The Divine Comedy back in the 90s, in particular Everybody Knows (Except You) and National Express  which felt like li...

   having recently discovered Bellowhead and trying to get into jogging. Like some miracle, I was able to run so much further fuelled by New...

2022 has been another year of discovery in terms of music and also of revelation. Many of the artists I enjoyed in 2021 have released new mu...

     the cover of this album. Its shade of blue has adhered to my memory with Beverley's iconic presence looking you right in the eyes a...

   being aware of the single 'Overload' and not immediately loving it, but knowing that it felt a bit different to other girl groups...

  being part of the wave of excitement over the Spice Girls. I was the age for it, about twelve, I guess. The fun, the cameraderie, the outf...

  spending hours of my time, in my room listening to albums like this one. At age 15, I was on an R n B/ soul train, browsing the comparativ...

   being 16 or 17 and this album just becoming part of my world. I owned it on CD and was starting to branch out a little from my beloved R ...

    having a family barbecue back home one Summer. It must have been 2008, a truly significant year for me. I was due to start my new job, b...