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The Ruts, Babylon's Burning 1979

Warning: This Blog Contains Hazy and Unreliable Memories of My Teenage Years, and some Jimmy Savile We might be in for another hot summer. Last year, riots erupted across the...

Quarterly Report 2: April, May, June 2025

Sly And The Family Stone – There’s a Riot Going...

Sly Stone died this week. Sly and the Family Stone were America’s happiest pop group. A mixed-race, gender-integrated funk-soul band, their early albums were euphoric—the most primal expression of what...

Heavy Jelly – I Keep Singing The Same Old Song,...

Before Spotify and YouTube, you discovered music through dodgy physics teachers, £1 compilations, and sheer luck. Nice Enough To Eat wasn’t just a sampler — it was a gateway drug...

Millie Small/Symarip "Enoch Power" 1969

How postwar Britain went from amateur choirs to global pop dominance—driven by immigration, ska, and a lone voice mocking Enoch Powell.

Daphne Oram, Still Point 1949

During WW2, Daphne Oram kept BBC broadcasts alive under fire—beat-matching live concerts to 78s. The world’s first turntablist?