Ranking Roger, vocalist with The Beat and General Public in the 1980s and leader of one of the two versions of The Beat still recording and performing forty years after their original formation, has died at the age of 56. … read more

Everyone’s favourite retro festival turned ten this year, so I expected Rewind to pull out all the stops. And they did just that. Regular gig pals Sarah and Pete joined me again for a jaunt to sunny Perth, where we … read more

It’s the end of another dexy which means it’s 1985 on this week’s Off The Chart! Join us for another two hours of hits, headlines and Harvesters including the usual barrowload of forgotten and half-remembered hits, three tracks from one … read more

It’s a difficult statistic to come to terms with. Madness has been a functioning unit in one form or another – with only the occasional time out along the way – since 1976. That’s longer than most marriages. Next year … read more

“I like Bros, but I’m not sure I can endure 85 minutes of them,” declared one Twitter user, on being confronted with this gem in the schedules. With my passing knowledge of their hits, and having previously endured Luke Goss … read more

Ranking Roger, vocalist with The Beat and General Public in the 1980s and leader of one of the two versions of The Beat still recording and performing forty years after their original formation, has died at the age of 56. … read more