Pete Paphides“Was it just one enormous cheese dream?” On Mike Read’s Heritage Chart ShowA couple of weeks ago, the UK’s only chart-based music show celebrated its hundredth episode, and yet, there’s every chance you’ve never…9 min read·Mar 1, 2024--1--1
Pete Paphides“You can’t put a passport on music.Even for the most nostalgia-resistant onlooker, it’s hard to watch the Melbourne episode of the Commonwealth Film Unit’s Life In Australia…22 min read·Jan 24, 2024----
Pete Paphides“Would it be exaggerating to say that what I was experiencing was an epiphany?”By the end of 1984, Paul Young was the sort of boyfriend material that would elicit adjectives like “dreamy” from Nicola Adkins, Fay…7 min read·Dec 23, 2023--3--3
Pete PaphidesThe Trashcan Sinatras: I’ve Seen Everything: “Songs that clang as softly as chapel bells on a…It’s 1993 and I lie for a living. The more I lie, the more attention I get. And in 1993, other people’s attention — in particular, the…7 min read·Dec 8, 2023--8--8
Pete Paphides“Youthful brio is perishable so you might as well use it all at once.” On The Soup Dragons.It’s 1984 and from a distance, Bellshill and the other satellite towns and suburbs from where The Soup Dragons will emerge could be any of…6 min read·Oct 26, 2023--4--4
Pete Paphides“The most controversial thing I’ve done is to stick around.” Madonna, O2, London, Oct 15, 2023Lying in an intensive care unit battling sepsis just four months ago, it’s unclear whether Madonna saw her life flash before her, but it…9 min read·Oct 16, 2023--5--5
Pete Paphides“If you invented a dance for it, you might call it the Perivale Peacock.”When a friend invites you over to their house, it’s not their house they’re inviting you to see. You’re there to see them. You’ll sit…4 min read·Sep 17, 2023----
Pete Paphides“An album that sits at the intersection of fandom and artistry, using the enthusiasm of the former…In the spring of 1993, the circumstances that saw Paul Weller entering The Manor Studios in Oxford were significantly different to those of…5 min read·Sep 6, 2023--1--1
Pete PaphidesThe The 2018 Comeback Special: “Something else becomes apparent.“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and…11 min read·Mar 22, 2023----
Pete Paphides“Hope with its collar up on a chilly morning” — 60 Years of Love Me DoPerhaps the most surprising thing about stepping into Paul McCartney’s childhood home at 20 Forthlin Rd isn’t what happens. It’s what…6 min read·Oct 5, 2022--3--3