In a neck and neck tie with The Jam, The Specials were my favourite band in 1979/80, and their debut album remains in my top five of all time. As a 13/14 year old you’re looking for idols, for cult figures, for inspiration, and The Specials ticked all those boxes brilliantly. I never saw them ...

That was the best ever Endorse it in Dorset Festival. Easy. The comedown now is beginning to ease and real life seems okay again. My main focus for the weekend was with Oxjam at the Wig-On Casino Stage on Sunday, so I make no excuses for a slight bias in that direction, but from the ...

Three weeks in, The Armadillo Club at Champions has hit the ground running with extremely encouraging turnouts so far. As well as some quality live music, punters have also been treated to the dj skills of Menace (The Intestines), as well as hundreds of original videos from the vaults of the Champions library being shown ...

Dusty Cuts first came to our attention a couple of years ago, maybe less, amongst those triumphant though ultimately miserable Gander days (the recent years). I think I met them personally before watching them as a band, having heard good things… diamond geezers they were too, full of passion and energy not just about their ...

Thursday 14 January sees the launch of a new weekly club, to be held at Champions music venue. The Armadillo Club is live music night aiming to appeal to bands and fans of (in the broadest sense) punk rock music. Since its musical conception in the seventies, punk has splintered of into various sub-genres, and ...