Tuesday Ten: 314: Tracks of the Month (October 2017)

The final tracks of the month for this year, so this one is slightly longer than usual as I try and crowbar in as many songs as possible to clear […]

Welcome to the Future: 016: Music news round-up 13-October 2017

Back around to another Friday already, hurtling deep into Autumn here in the UK, with Christmas already looming on the horizon. But enough of distant holidays, let us talk about […]

Welcome to the Future: 013: Music news round-up 22-September 2017

This week’s update comes to you fresh from amodelofcontrol.com attending it’s thirty-first gig of 2017 last night, which was the long-awaited London return of ex-Mansun frontman Paul Draper, at The […]

/Countdown/2015/Albums

This week, on part three, I turn my attention to the best albums of the year. I seem to say it every year, but really – 2015 has been an […]

Tuesday Ten: 195: ten years ten bands: ten years of amodelofcontrol.com

This week marks ten years since I registered amodelofcontrol.com, and got to work promoting my music writing (the first permanent home I’d given it), and then over the coming months […]

/Countdown/2013 /Compilations and reissues

I have something of a love-hate relationship with the whole idea of reissues and compilations. Some are truly worthwhile – reminding listeners of bands that they may have otherwise missed, […]