It’s the end of the year, and as promised here is the inaugural I Said Yeah yearly round-up. It’s exciting stuff. I know, I know… I’ve been thinking a little bit about what the best approach for this kind of thing would be. I’ve only been writing since July, so the idea of having the…

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a review of a curious record named OMNIPOP, by Southend-on-Sea’s The Tumbledryer Babies. Although I’d seen the name around at various times over the last decade or so (I lived in Southend pretty much all my life until my wife, our son, and I moved to Scotland in…

I’ve been thinking about starting a music blog for a while. While it’s true that the world doesn’t necessarily need another music blog from the point of view of a chronically unsuccessful musician who just wants to talk about the mechanics of how and why people make music, there definitely seems to be a shortage…