Lily Allen is an English singer, songwriter, and author. She is the daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Allen left school when she was 15 and concentrated on improving her performing and compositional skills. In 2005, she made some of her recordings public on Myspace and the publicity resulted in airplay […]
Wicked Game
“Wicked Game” is a song by American rock musician Chris Isaak, released from his third studio album Heart Shaped World (1989). Despite being released as a single in 1989, it did not become a hit until it was featured in the 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart. Lee Chesnut, an Atlanta radio station music […]
Mother’s Day
Another in our occasional series of songs connected by a theme. Today is Mothering Sunday or Mother’s Day, and so I thought I would offer you something of an arcane collection of songs loosely connected by their references to mums, moms, and mothers. However be warned that this collection is not the usual sentimental selection, […]
Kim Jennett
Kim Jennett, the former Bridgewater High student is now a singer/songwriter from Warrington. Kim has been part of Warrington’s music scene since her family moved there when she was a teenager. She performs under her own name and previously fronted the blues rock band, Voodoo Blood. Kim has also created a new solo project under […]
Wolf Alice
Wolf Alice are a British alternative rock band from London. Formed in 2010 as an acoustic duo comprising singer Ellie Rowsell and guitarist Joff Oddie. Their name came from a short story by Angela Carter. Eventually deciding to add electric elements to their sound, they recruited Rowsell’s childhood friend Sadie Cleary to play bass and […]
Marshmello
Christopher Comstock, known professionally as Marshmello, is an American electronic music producer and DJ. He has an image of masking himself with a white bucket. He released his debut studio album Joytime, consisting of 10 songs, via his label Joytime Collective in January 2016. One single was released from the album, titled “Keep It Mello”, […]
Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress. In 1999, she won a radio contest to perform with the Canadian singer Shania Twain at the Corel Centre in Ottawa, before an audience of 20,000 people. Twain and Lavigne sang Twain’s song, “What Made You Say That”, and shee told Twain that she was going […]
Free
The most remarkable about the birth of Free was the youth of the band members who came together to rehearse and play their first gig on the evening of 19 April 1968 at the Nag’s Head pub, which was at the junction of York Road and Plough Road in Battersea. Bass player Andy Fraser was […]
10cc
10cc are an English band formed in Stockport in 1972. It initially consisted of four musicians – Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme – who had written and recorded together since 1968. The group featured two songwriting teams. Stewart and Gouldman were predominantly pop songwriters, who created most of the band’s accessible […]
Singing Nuns
This has become something of a phenomenon since the first nun picked up a guitar and had a hit record with Dominique in 1963, although it hasn’t always ended well. Jeanne-Paule Marie “Jeannine” Deckers, better known as Sœur Sourire (”Sister Smile”) and often called The Singing Nun in English-speaking countries, was a Belgian singer-songwriter and […]