Music Maps

Looking back at my past few posts, I’m a touch worried that I’ve focused on a few too many bloody awful Britpop records, and that’s probably because I have. So it’s time to remedy that with XTC’s 1982 album English Settlement, the sleeve of which is adorned with an image of the Uffington White Horse, […]

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Country House is Blur’s worst ever single. As part of “The Battle of Britpop” in the summer of 1995, its release date was moved forward a week in order to clash with Oasis’s Roll With It. It was a clever PR exercise, and one which led to Country House comfortably beating Roll With It to […]

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I really don’t need to write much about the location of the sleeve for David Bowie’s The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (the basics? Heddon Street off Regent Street in London) because the quite brilliant Ziggy Stardust Companion does it all for me, and in some detail.
It’s well worth […]

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An hour and a bit down the Hope Valley Line from Coles Corner is Manchester Piccadilly station, the road up to which provided the inspiration for Elbow’s Station Approach, the opening track to their 2005 album Leaders Of The Free World.
Recorded at Blueprint Studios in nearby Salford, Elbow’s Guy Garvey told the NME (see Powderblue) […]

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Some might see this as a bit of an obvious post (I’m trying to stay away from the more well known locations – people don’t need me to tell them where Salford Lads Club or that street on the front of Morning Glory is), but seeing as I walked past it at least twice […]

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