I Am Kloot’s head honcho John Bramwell is coming to Pop Recs in Sunderland this October. I was on board with I Am Kloot way back in 2001, when their ‘Natural History’ album become my go-to release that year. I loved their indie-folk sound, and at its …

Newcastle’s Charts and Graphs are delightfully in thrall to the artier end of post-punk—think Talking Heads, Pere Ubu, Wire, Devo etc—but they inject their mutant take on those infectious herky-jerky rhythms with buckets of fresh vibes and contemporary da…

Time has been very kind to this 1981 mock-dramatised rockumentary, if you will, of the Nutty Boys’ formative years as Camden-dwelling wannabes, Madness’s formation, and rapid ascent. Directed by Stiff Records label founder Dave Robinson and now restored b…