One of the great forgotten Pub Rock bands were Roogalator, featuring errant american-born muso Danny Adler.  Formed in 1972, and Playin...

Another one of those groups the music press didn't like in 1977/8 because they were older and reminded those journalists of themselv...

Once described as a South London Charity shop Ramones, due to their standard garb of leather jackets and t-shirts. The Fruit Eating Bear...

The (Count) Bishops' swansong was probably their best album; mainly because its production values, commercially viable for that part...

In and around 1978, record companies, in all their wisdom, thought that making an act who wasn't selling enough units, change their n...

More honest unpretentious new wave of rock'n'roll from Pub Rock legends The Count Bishops. This one was only released in cont...

Nowadays, a band playing primarily covers of sixties tunes would be regarded as a bit of a cruise ship act. But back in 1975/6 it was ve...

From the dirty grimier end of Pub Rock came the Count Bishops, with a kind of sound that linked Dr Feelgood with Eddie and The Hot Rods. ...

The Downliners Sect were a British sixties punk band who played rough and ready UK style R&B with a punk attitude.No ambitions t...

Bands that played Rock'n'Roll were a rarity in the early seventies, and here's one of them, The Pink Fairies. They contribut...

The list of the original British Daddies of Punk can extend a long way back, was it The Kinks? The Troggs? Nearly all American Sixties G...

My first experience of Motorhead was via the "Bunch Of Stiffs" compilation on Stiff Records, and "White Line Fever...

A lot of people with long hair point to Motorhead as the precursors of that terrible affliction called NWOBHM. You know,that movement p...

Did someone mention the Rockin' Vickers? The biggest phenomenon north of the Watford Gap in 1965 to 66 I've heard....but listenin...

So we've established that Joe Meek began the modern do it yourself recording ethic, yes? So we'd better hear the Hits? The bes...

As we've taken a short detour down the cul-de-sac of pre-Beatles UK Rock'n'Roll, it makes sense to bring perspective back to...

Original Rock'n'Roll, sometimes called Classic Rock'n'Roll, UK style, was generally absolute shite!....but, there were...

A group who weren't afraid of actually working hard, instead of moaning about unauthorised downloads or streaming. No problem was it ...

The reformed Pirates swansong was this album of rockers on Edsel from 1981; just as the Wanker Bros advance money was running out, an...

This was called "Hard Ride" in the US, with a different track order and a laughable cover featuring a sexy lady swinging a l...

For the second Warner Bros Pirates album, the bosses decided to keep the same formula as "Out Of Their Skulls" , a mixture o...

Well, if Dr. Feelgood were the Flying Squad in the Sweeney, then The Pirates were the villains. They looked well mean and menacing. Johnn...