Buzzin Pop Music

The Beautiful South enjoyed 19 hit singles and 8 Top Ten albums. Formed at the end of the 1980s by two former members of The Housemartins, Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway, the duo were initially joined by Sean Welch (bass), Dave Stead (drums) and Dave Rotheray (guitar), all of whom stayed with the group [...]

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The sixth album produced by The Charlatans and their first under the Island Records label, Us & Us Only marked a new chapter for the band in 1999, as well as being their first offering on the new label, it was also the first recording made without Rob Collins on keyboards, he had tragically died [...]

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It is the 20th anniversary of the release of the brilliant anthem Altogether Now recorded by The Farm at the height of the Madchester craze and the band will re-release the single on December 1st to commemorate the date, but moreover to send the proceeds from its sale to troops in Afghanistan.
For the month of [...]

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Nick Heyward burst onto the post New Romantic pop music scene in 1981 as singer / songwriter of Haircut 100 with the Top 10 UK hit single Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl).  The following year they had further Top 10 hit singles with Love Plus One, Fantastic Day and Nobody’s Fool, all taken from Haircut [...]

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The assocaition between the BBC and Status Quo stretches back almost 45 years beginning with some recordings of The Spectres in 1966 before the band changed their name to Status Quo.
It was two years later when Status Quo peformed their psychedelic inspired Pictures Of Matchstick Men at the beeb in 1968 for The Dave Symonds [...]

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