Articles by Garwood Pickjon

Having a pair of Zombies and The Church guitarist guesting on an album, must be more than enough a reason for a pop fan to get interested. If it also happens to be an incredible […]

Liverpool Express offers a ride back to “once upon a time” and even though you might be a bit confused if it’s the ‘60s, ‘70s or ‘80s that they’re taking you to, being among the […]

Having been at least somewhere on the scene, for no less than thirty years or so, it’s strange for a Beatlemaniacal fan (which is a category I count myself in) not to have heard about […]

After their first two albums, my impressions about The Jellybricks were kinda divided in two. I thought of them as a band sure capable of writing songs that can stand alongside the major league power-pop […]

Though I can’t agree with the press release saying that they sound unlike anything else coming out of Liverpool at the moment, an emotion that I do second, is that they really might be the […]

Between countless sessions, finding him mostly behind the mixing desk, or even as an essential sideman, Michael Carpenter finally manages to release his third solo record, after a long but more than worthy wait. Throughout […]

Nothing too serious about this one, just a funny little imaginary cartoon band concept, based on the ones made famous by the likes of The Monkees, The Archies and later, to some extent, The Jet […]

– The Barbara Ruskin Songbook – Even though her name was not a common one on the British charts, here’s an evidence that Barbara Ruskin’s place on the sixties girly pop map is just as […]