Artist: Boyzone

Boyzone single, 2010-03-08
Absolutely love this new single.Even though it makes you tearful listening to Stephens beautiful vocals it is a very nice song with lovely vocals,harmonies, a soulful and fitting tribute to the memory of Stephen.Well done Boyzone hope it stays high in the charts as it is a very beautiful song.

Artist: Pet Shop Boys

Pure class, 2010-03-01
Having been in the audience for the Manchester leg of this tour, it was thrilling to hear/see the set again - albeit on CD and DVD rather than in the flesh. This gig was the third time I had been to see PSB live, and if anything they seem to get better as the years go on. For a bloke past fifty, Neil Tennant bounds across the stage like someone half his age, while Chris Lowe escapes from his synthesizer pod at one point to do a little jig - getting the biggest roar of the night! With the surprising but welcome inclusion of mid-80s album tracks such as 'Why Don't We Live Together' and 'Two Divided by Zero', a rousing mash-up of Colplay's 'Viva La Vida' and the boys' own 'Domino Dancing' on the CD, as well as the 2009 Brit Awards performance with Lady Gaga and Brandon Flowers on the DVD, this is a great package and an essential purchase for all fans.

Artist: Temper Trap

Great CD, 2010-03-10
Love this cd. Play it all the time. If you like Passion Pit and Friendly Fires, you'll like this.

Artist: Snow Patrol

the best of snow patrol up to now, 2010-01-31
With most CDs especially doubles like this one, you play them and only the most popular that have been released as singles are played, the rest are fast forwarded. My introduction to snow patrol as an AOP was when I had a courtesy car and the previous occupier had left a snow patrol cd in the player. I played it every time I drove for 3 days, and loved the sound. When I decided to buy this copy I was surprised how many were familiar. Out of every track I think there is only 2 that dont appeal to me. Each one is different from the rest, music is great and so different from the rubbish being churned out at the moment. no hesitation in giving it 5* and recommending it to all ages who appreciate good music and sensible lyrics.

Artist: Bombay Bicycle Club

Album of the year ?, 2010-02-01
Loving this lately - probably my favourite album of 2009 (only maybe The XX can top it) for this ageing listener. The vocalist is a bit of an acquired taste but other than that this does some pretty inventive things within the potentially stale indie rock field. Reminds me of British Sea Power (without the delightfully strange lyrics) more than anybody else. Nice unfussy production lets the music shine through. Highly recommended.

Artist: Noisettes

How’s this for a reinvention: Wild Young Hearts debuts a very different Noisettes from the band we met on 2007’s punky What’s The Time Mr Wolf? Primarily, the London trio have realised what a voice they have in vocalist Shingai Shoniwa, whose smoky croon resembles a young Billie Holliday, and frankly, feels a little wasted on ragged garage-rock numbers. If Wild Young Hearts is a slightly more mainstream-sounding offering than its predecessor, though, it also wears its new sense of ambition on its sleeve. Most new listeners will have been pulled in by “Don’t Upset The Rhythm”, a smart disco-pop number with shades of Tom Tom Club’s “Wordy Rappinghood”, but there’s a good half-dozen tracks here that would make equally good singles: take the pulsing electro of “Saturday Night”, or “Never Forget You”, a Winehouse-style soul number with added crunchy guitar. If there’s a problem here, it’s that the Noisettes are so keen to show they can do anything, they’re sometimes in danger of overloading their songs: the title track, with its rocky peaks, elegiac piano, and frantic handclaps, feels like about three tracks crushed uncomforta...
A must have, 2010-02-21
An excellent album with a great variety of soulful and funky songs, the singer has a fantastic voice and it gets better with each listen, highly recommended

Artist: Various Artists

Blast from the past, 2010-03-07
I bought this for my other half, who is a fan of the 80's and she absolutely loves it. She said it contained all the songs she remembered and a few she had forgotten, it is now a permanent fixture in the CD player in the car.

Artist: Joe Bonamassa

Notes from a review copy, 2010-03-04
I know amazonistas don't like reviews done prior to an album's release but I just have to share this one with you. THIS IS GREAT! Album of the year material already.
I must admit I thought that Joe's prolific career so far may have hit the buffers by now but no chance. Apparently Joe went to Greece to record most of this and there are a couple of tracks which could have been cheesily "ethnic" but they survive with flying colours. There's no attempt to go all Buena Vista Social Club on this album, any Greek influences are firmly placed within a blues context.
On the whole this album is very much in the regular Bonamassa blues rock vein but with those extra touches we have an enervating and exciting new experience.
One track that doesn't (surprisingly?) work for me is the workout with BB King which in my view is another of the great man's duets by numbers (U2, Clapton etc). I know these guys go back a long way and on any other day this would perhaps be a great track but on this album, somehow, it just doesn't fit in.
There's the famous cheese shop sketch on Monty Python where John Cleese proclaims "Shut that bloody bazouki up!"
Well he wouldn't be saying that on listening to this album

Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring: Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, Dave Rowntree, Phil Daniels
Director: Dylan Southern

2nd July 2009 Hyde Park London, 2010-03-07
Just a quick line or two. A must purchase for any real blur fan, a high quality well produced set featuring some of the best blur gig footage around. This DVD features a documentary on disc 1 and the whole of the Thursday 2nd July 2009 Hyde Park gig on the second. I haven't watched the documentary fully yet but just letting you know there is no footage of the 3rd July gig to be found here. So if you went to the Friday gig you're out of luck. Those lucky enough to attend the Thursday gig will find an incredible and well produced concert DVD with a tonne of crowd footage to play where's wally looking for themself. You can see yours truly clearly at 15min39secs in a purple t-shirt rubbing my hair. Watching this brought back great memories of last summer and gave me a different perspective on what could be the last time I/we get to see blur live.

Artist: John Barrowman

Very Good, 2010-03-10
My mum bought me this CD as I am a big John Barrowman Fan and listening to it for the first time I wasn't that impressed, as I didn't recognise most of the songs. But the more I listened to them the more I fell in love with the songs and the way John Barrowman sing's the songs are absolutly stunning. The duet with Jodie Prenger was amazing she has a stunning voice.