As far as I’m aware, Neil ‘Flakey’ Collins (ex Maine Street, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels & Nine Plan Zero) has spent the majority of the last couple of years traveling, surfing and generally enjoying warmer climes. Receiving an email a few weeks ago, asking if we could feature his new music was a surprise, as I ...

Twenty-five years ago I started watching live bands in Bournemouth. One of the first bands I saw was The Spoons – fronted by Lance Riley. Bloody good they were too, they could’ve made it y’know. But sixties-influenced bands were getting nowhere in the eighties, if they’d have released ‘Show Me How’ in the mid-nineties rather ...