Night of the Living Vinyl

It's often said that the British are a literary nation, particularly when discussing the nation's relationship to visual arts. How...

I must say I'd thought I'd come to the end of the line with the whole 60s exploito thing. I mean could I scrape the barrel any more...

There was a time when you could pick this record up in virtually any charity shop in Britain, and for all I know from everywhere else in...

The Watts Towers in Los Angeles are fascinating examples of outsider art, public art, community art, and inventive engineering. They...

Excuse this slightly rambling post. I;m trying to work out some ideas on the fly so I hope some, at least, makes sense! Don't exp...

This record is a Britjazz obscurity. Recorded in 1962 it reveals British jazz trying to find a distinctive British (as opposed to Am...

For reasons that I can't begin to explain, this record hasn't been far from turntable for the last few weeks. In case you don...