Know your ‘garda’ from your ‘guds’

IN A 1992 Guitar World feature that celebrated the release of Spinal Tap’s reunion album, Break Like the Wind, it was reported that lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel had been, at some point during the band’

These weird lyrics really had us scratching our heads…

Thanks to the record-breaking live return of Oasis, this has been a year heavy on Britpop nostalgia. But did anyone expect 2025 to include a rerun of the notorious Blur-versus-Oasis battle of August 1

HAVING LIVED WITH TOURETTE’S SINCE HIS TEENS, LATER BECOMING A CAMPAIGNER, JOHN DAVIDSON HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN UNRESTRAINED FORCE. ACCORDINGLY, THE I SWEAR TEAM PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS…

The grand parade of lifeless packaging? Far from it, as this much-delayed blockbuster reissue of one of prog’s most fascinating and frustrating albums finally proves.

Breaking big at the peak of Britpop, Neil Hannon has been one of our smartest and most playful lyricists for over 30 years. Winsome songs about pollen counts, fading socialites, eccentric aristocrats