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Kiss in the mix: Prince in ’86

August 14, 2026

Perfect 10: Bauhaus

“We were just four young kids who wanted to make something unique, without really having much idea what we were doing.” – Kevin Haskins “We were arrogant fuckers. You had to be, in order to…
August 7, 2026
bySteve Pafford
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Every night is Friday night: Obscure Pet Shop Boys fifth night review

July 10, 2026

It’s Thursday night: Obscure Pet Shop Boys fourth night review

July 9, 2026

It was a Wednesday night: Obscure Pet Shop Boys third night review

July 8, 2026

Late on Tuesday evening: Obscure Pet Shop Boys second night review

July 7, 2026

Someone told me Monday: Obscure Pet Shop Boys first night review

July 6, 2026

From London to Berlin: the Obscure Pet Shop Boys (p)review

July 5, 2026

Spawn In The USA: 250 reasons why I’m afraid of Americans

July 4, 2026

Record Collector Presents… Stevie Wonder: out now 

July 3, 2026
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Random Jukebox: U2’s Miss Sarajevo, One New Year’s Day 

May 10, 2026

Random Jukebox: Duran Duran’s A View To A Kill + how they took over Bond from Bowie

May 12, 2025
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You can stop the music: The trouble with the Village People

June 30, 2026

More PMs than realities: why Britain is always going up the hill backwards

June 22, 2026
Music

Age to the rhythm: Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Grace Jones (and why she’s younger than you think)

“The performer, out there, takes a risk. It’s a lonely place. But it’s a fascinating, lonely place.” That’s a signature moment from Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, the illuminating 2018…
May 19, 2026
bySteve Pafford
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Perfect 10: Produced by Brian Eno

Get me. I have a not especially nouvelle nor vague theory that the artists who enjoy the longest, most interesting careers are the avid collaborators – that it’s the art of collaboration; the…
May 15, 2026
bySteve Pafford

May The Fourth Be With You: How Margaret Thatcher launched the Star Wars ‘holiday’

Who would have thought the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in 1979 would be the genesis of a worldwide, annual celebration of all things Star Wars? Yet that’s exactly how May…
May 4, 2026
bySteve Pafford
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Random Jukebox: Dinah Washington’s Mad About The Boy

One hundred years ago, jazz and blues singer Dinah Washington was born in Alabama. The Grammy-winning “Queen of the Jukeboxes” would leave this bitter earth behind at the tender age of 39,…
August 28, 2024
bySteve Pafford
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The murder of Stephen Lawrence 33 years on

Lest we forget… It’s Stephen Lawrence Day in the ‘United‘ Kingdom. Which, in 2026, means that 33 years ago in its capital city an innocent young boy was savagely slain in a callous racially…
April 22, 2026
bySteve Pafford

You’re an actor too? That time I worked with David Tennant

Well, allons-y and all that, because it just happens to be a certain Scotsman’s 55th birthday today. David John Tennant, or should I say né McDonald, was born on 18 April 1971 in…
April 18, 2026
bySteve Pafford
Events

Licence to flop: The trouble with Timothy Dalton

The James Bond series is the most famous and longest-running film franchise of all time, with the 25 movies enthralling audiences with exotic locales, high octane action, and complex political…
March 21, 2026
bySteve Pafford

Russell Crowe: Another one who’s ballooned

This is not a joke. World Obesity Day is a thing. It exists. And since 2015 it’s been organised by the World Obesity Federation because, well, why not? If we the peoploids have to stand (or…
March 4, 2026
byjames Harris
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