Fleetwood Mac’s Guitarist Problem - The Strange Brew For Fleetwood Mac, they seemed to go the way of their guitarists, while everything else remained steadfast and reliable. Here is the story of Fleetwood Mac through the travails of their six foundation...

Scott Shea tells the story of Fleetwood Mac through the travails of their six foundational guitarists: Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, Bob Welch, Bob Weston and Lindsey Buckingham #fleetwoodmac thestrangebrew.co.uk/fleetwood-ma...

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Beau's Top Five Dandelion Records - The Strange Brew Beau, Trevor Midgley chooses his top 5 records on John Peel's Dandelion label. Features Kevin Coyne, Bridget St John, Medicine Head, Mike Hart and Tractor.

Beau picks his five top tracks from the Dandelion catalogue - includes Kevin Coyne, Bridget St John, Medicine Head, Mike Hart and Tractor thestrangebrew.co.uk/top-five-dan...

Beau's Top Five Dandelion Records - The Strange Brew Beau, Trevor Midgley chooses his top 5 records on John Peel's Dandelion label. Features Kevin Coyne, Bridget St John, Medicine Head, Mike Hart and Tractor.

Beau picks his five top tracks from the Dandelion catalogue - includes Kevin Coyne, Bridget St John, Medicine Head, Mike Hart and Tractor thestrangebrew.co.uk/top-five-dan...

Duncan Mackay - Cockney Rebel, Alan Parsons Project, Kate Bush, 10cc - The Strange Brew Duncan Mackay has spent half a century at the keyboard of British popular and progressive music. he joined Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, just as Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) reached number one...

New podcast: Duncan Mackay talks about playing with Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, Alan Parsons Project, Kate Bush, 10cc and his solo work thestrangebrew.co.uk/duncan-mackay/

Cult Figures on Four Albums in 50 Years: 'Creativity is Like Waiting for the 166 Bus' - The Strange Brew Cult Figures, band, interview, debut single on Swell Maps' Rather label in 1979, reformed, Fourth album Reports of People. Jason Barnard spoke to the group about Birmingham in the 1970s, friendship wi...

Cult Figures formed in Birmingham in 1977. They've just made their fourth album. We asked them about Roger Taylor of Duran Duran and why creativity is like waiting for the 166 bus thestrangebrew.co.uk/cult-figures/

Cult Figures on Four Albums in 50 Years: 'Creativity is Like Waiting for the 166 Bus' - The Strange Brew Cult Figures, band, interview, debut single on Swell Maps' Rather label in 1979, reformed, Fourth album Reports of People. Jason Barnard spoke to the group about Birmingham in the 1970s, friendship wi...

Cult Figures formed in Birmingham in 1977. They've just made their fourth album. We asked them about Roger Taylor of Duran Duran and why creativity is like waiting for the 166 bus thestrangebrew.co.uk/cult-figures/

Duncan Mackay - Cockney Rebel, Alan Parsons Project, Kate Bush, 10cc - The Strange Brew Duncan Mackay has spent half a century at the keyboard of British popular and progressive music. he joined Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, just as Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) reached number one...

New podcast: Duncan Mackay talks about playing with Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, Alan Parsons Project, Kate Bush, 10cc and his solo work thestrangebrew.co.uk/duncan-mackay/

Kelli Blanchett on Casual Dining: 'It Felt Like Much-Needed Therapy' - The Strange Brew Kelli Blanchett talks chronic illness, working-class identity and her new EP Casual Dining, five tracks of alt-folk and Americana about the year she spent largely housebound and what she found there.

When Kelli Blanchett's illness left her housebound, her friends started turning up for dinner. That year became Casual Dining, an EP that sounds like it belongs in the 70s singer-songwriter canon. Our interview thestrangebrew.co.uk/kelli-blanch...

Kelli Blanchett on Casual Dining: 'It Felt Like Much-Needed Therapy' - The Strange Brew Kelli Blanchett talks chronic illness, working-class identity and her new EP Casual Dining, five tracks of alt-folk and Americana about the year she spent largely housebound and what she found there.

When Kelli Blanchett's illness left her housebound, her friends started turning up for dinner. That year became Casual Dining, an EP that sounds like it belongs in the 70s singer-songwriter canon. Our interview thestrangebrew.co.uk/kelli-blanch...

'He Was the Greatest Vocalist in Rock History': A Musician's Memories of Terry Reid - The Strange Brew Paris-based musician Guillaume (Indolore) shares his memories of Terry Reid, who passed away on 4 August 2025. From a chance encounter with a documentary to a sixteen-year friendship and creative part...

‘He Was the Greatest Vocalist in Rock History’: A Musician’s Memories of Terry Reid thestrangebrew.co.uk/memories-ter...

'He Was the Greatest Vocalist in Rock History': A Musician's Memories of Terry Reid - The Strange Brew Paris-based musician Guillaume (Indolore) shares his memories of Terry Reid, who passed away on 4 August 2025. From a chance encounter with a documentary to a sixteen-year friendship and creative part...

‘He Was the Greatest Vocalist in Rock History’: A Musician’s Memories of Terry Reid thestrangebrew.co.uk/memories-ter...

Patrick Campbell-Lyons of Nirvana Remembered - The Strange Brew Patrick Campbell-Lyons, guitarist, songwriter and co-founder of Nirvana, has died at the age of 82. Though the name would later be commandeered across the Atlantic in the 1990s, Campbell-Lyons and his...

My thoughts and memories of the great Patrick Campbell-Lyons of Nirvana who passed away recently thestrangebrew.co.uk/patrick-camp...

Patrick Campbell-Lyons of Nirvana Remembered - The Strange Brew Patrick Campbell-Lyons, guitarist, songwriter and co-founder of Nirvana, has died at the age of 82. Though the name would later be commandeered across the Atlantic in the 1990s, Campbell-Lyons and his...

My thoughts and memories of the great Patrick Campbell-Lyons of Nirvana who passed away recently thestrangebrew.co.uk/patrick-camp...

Rat Scabies (The Damned) and Chris Constantinou (Adam Ant)

New podcast: Rat Scabies (The Damned) and Chris Constantinou (Adam Ant) met through The Mutants. They discuss how they became One Thousand Motels and why it took over five years for their debut album to see a full release thestrangebrew.co.uk/rat-scabies-...

Rat Scabies (The Damned) and Chris Constantinou (Adam Ant)

New podcast: Rat Scabies (The Damned) and Chris Constantinou (Adam Ant) met through The Mutants. They discuss how they became One Thousand Motels and why it took over five years for their debut album to see a full release thestrangebrew.co.uk/rat-scabies-...

Michael Giles on leaving King Crimson and opening his archives - The Strange Brew Michael Giles, co-founder and original drummer of King Crimson, talks about his first solo release since 2001. The double CD Shadows / Solo, draws on private recordings made since 1998 and marks the s...

New interview: Michael Giles on leaving King Crimson, decades of private recordings, and why at 84 he decided the tapes deserved to be heard. #kingcrimson @burningshed.com thestrangebrew.co.uk/michael-giles/

Michael Giles on leaving King Crimson and opening his archives - The Strange Brew Michael Giles, co-founder and original drummer of King Crimson, talks about his first solo release since 2001. The double CD Shadows / Solo, draws on private recordings made since 1998 and marks the s...

New interview: Michael Giles on leaving King Crimson, decades of private recordings, and why at 84 he decided the tapes deserved to be heard. #kingcrimson @burningshed.com thestrangebrew.co.uk/michael-giles/

Meet Furii, the musician who hopes music stays a mystery - The Strange Brew Adrien Rodes, as a member of Tim Smith's Spratleys, that challenge proved unexpectedly addictive, and it is in the gaps between those performances that Furii began to take shape. When Amon Tobin asked...

New interview: Meet Furii, the musician who hopes music stays a mystery thestrangebrew.co.uk/meet-furii/

Meet Furii, the musician who hopes music stays a mystery - The Strange Brew Adrien Rodes, as a member of Tim Smith's Spratleys, that challenge proved unexpectedly addictive, and it is in the gaps between those performances that Furii began to take shape. When Amon Tobin asked...

New interview: Meet Furii, the musician who hopes music stays a mystery thestrangebrew.co.uk/meet-furii/

The Middle People: Art-Pop's Most Productive Odd Couple - The Strange Brew Interview with The Middle People — the art-pop duo of Mikey Georgeson (David Devant & His Spirit Wife) and António Olaio — on their Best Of compilation, their creative process and three albums made in...

A fantastic new interview with The Middle People - Mikey Georgeson (David Devant & His Spirit Wife) and António Olaio. They have a best of compilation, Can You Feel The Moment, out shortly @augstone.bsky.social thestrangebrew.co.uk/the-middle-p...

Great stuff over at The Strange Brew. Talking to "Art-Pop’s Most Productive Odd Couple" The Middle People

The Middle People: Art-Pop's Most Productive Odd Couple - The Strange Brew Interview with The Middle People — the art-pop duo of Mikey Georgeson (David Devant & His Spirit Wife) and António Olaio — on their Best Of compilation, their creative process and three albums made in...

A fantastic new interview with The Middle People - Mikey Georgeson (David Devant & His Spirit Wife) and António Olaio. They have a best of compilation, Can You Feel The Moment, out shortly @augstone.bsky.social thestrangebrew.co.uk/the-middle-p...

It may be Easter for you lot, but it's Allan Clarke Day for me!

Happy 84th birthday to my favourite singer!!

Let's see how many music challenges I can do with only Hollies & Clarkie songs, shall we?

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society - The Strange Brew Jason Barnard is joined by music writer and artist Chris Wade to talk about The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. They discuss how the US tour ban pushed Ray Davies inward, the extraor...

New podcast: Chris Wade discusses The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. From Ray Davies’ inward turn after the US tour ban to its nostalgic vision of an England that may never have existed thestrangebrew.co.uk/the-kinks-vi...

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society - The Strange Brew Jason Barnard is joined by music writer and artist Chris Wade to talk about The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. They discuss how the US tour ban pushed Ray Davies inward, the extraor...

New podcast: Chris Wade discusses The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. From Ray Davies’ inward turn after the US tour ban to its nostalgic vision of an England that may never have existed thestrangebrew.co.uk/the-kinks-vi...

How Cassius Wolf & Das Abs are finishing what Eric's started - The Strange Brew Before the Bunnymen had a name, a club on Mathew Street was rewiring what Liverpool thought music could be. Eric's dealt in the Doors, in Can. The room was full of people who all seemed to be starting...

New interview: Before Echo & the Bunnymen had a name, Eric’s in Liverpool was influencing the future sound of the 80s. Now, Cassius Wolf & Das Abs finally emerge with An Afternoon in Bedlam, cassette-born songs from 1981 that feel at home in 2026 thestrangebrew.co.uk/cassius-wolf...

The Kinks 1940 to 1971 - The Strange Brew Andrew Sandoval talks about THE KINKS – ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT, The Day-By-Day Story Pt 1: 1940-1971, the new book he co-authored with the Doug Hinman. This is the most comprehensive record of t...

New podcast: Andrew Sandoval discusses his exhaustive day-by-day Kinks history up to 1971. Topics include Ray Davies' songwriting, the commercial failure of two classic albums, the American visa ban, and the collapsed TV deal behind Arthur thestrangebrew.co.uk/the-kinks-19...

- Tony Rivers - The Strange Brew Tony Rivers is the singer Cliff Richard called ‘The Miracle Man of Harmonies’ and in this podcast Tony

Farewell to Tony Rivers, the singer Cliff Richard called ‘The Miracle Man of Harmonies.’ In this 2019 podcast Tony talked about his pivotal role as the go-to British harmony singer of the last 60 years thestrangebrew.co.uk/tony-rivers/

- Tony Rivers - The Strange Brew Tony Rivers is the singer Cliff Richard called ‘The Miracle Man of Harmonies’ and in this podcast Tony

Farewell to Tony Rivers, the singer Cliff Richard called ‘The Miracle Man of Harmonies.’ In this 2019 podcast Tony talked about his pivotal role as the go-to British harmony singer of the last 60 years thestrangebrew.co.uk/tony-rivers/