Welcome back to another 'Sounds from TSOTC HQ' feature. This month there’s a good mix of old and new, including releases by Gary Numan,...

Working primarily from home means that there’s a lot of time to listen to music here at The Sound of the Crowd HQ. So for 2022, the...

10th October 2020 With the music industry currently in a state of extreme fragility, many artists, performers and others involved in...

An essay comparing and and contrasting recorded popular music consumption in 1970 with recorded popular music consumption in 1990. ~ ~ ~...

An essay discussing the 1970s music genre of glam rock, and how a significant factor of its appeal was the fashions associated with it. ~...

It’s a freezing cold October afternoon in Hull. And I mean freezing; the sky over the city is cloudless and grey, the teeth of people...

Though it is a relatively well-known fact that vinyl sales have increased massively worldwide over the last decade or so (there’s been an...

In my experience, it seems that every musician, no matter to what level or standard they play, has a few artists that they aspire to be...

The latest news from one of TSOTC’s current favourite acts... CIRCU5 – the project of multi-instrumentalist Steve Tilling (TC&I) – is now...

‘Music nowadays all sounds the same’. Here’s a favourite phrase of a multitude of today’s music consumers. And whilst it’s not...

In Music Media XTC were formed in Swindon, UK in 1976. They released a total of 39 singles and 14 studio albums (2 of each under the name...

Colin Moulding (left) and Terry Chambers, as ‘TC&I’. Photo credit to Geoff Winn. It is a peaceful, sunny Sunday evening. Looking out of...

Incorporating forgetive songwriting, a wide range of musical styles, and a futuristic album concept that would make even Peter Gabriel...

18th May 2018 Despite not having been on an OMD-related escapade for a while (aka about two months), the trip to Liverpool this weekend...

‘Red frame white light! Six three two three double o three!’ Those are the immortal words uttered by Andy McCluskey in Orchestral...

Released 25th February 1978 In celebration of the fact that today is Genesis guitarist Mike Rutherford's sixty seventh birthday, this...

Released 16th March 1979 On this day in 1981, Gary Numan began an attempt to fly around the world in a single engine Cessna plane. It was...

On this day in 2014, U2 released 'Songs Of Innocence', an album that almost immediately sparked uproar amongst iTunes users when they...

Of course, as it is unofficial 'Punishment of Luxury' week on my blog, the track of the week this week certainly had to be a song from...

Well, as it is from this track that the title of this blog is taken, it had to be 'Track Of The Week' sometime and I thought now was a...

Kicking off this (hopefully) regular feature with a classic track from those Basildon lads, Depeche Mode. On hearing their new album (a...

Founding member of Genesis Tony Banks speaks to The Sound Of The Crowd about the origins of the legendary band. Genesis are one of those...

Andy McCluskey Speaks at 'Seventh Wave' Electronic Music Conference- Birmingham and Midland Institute, Birmingham, 12/11/16 Yesterday...

OMD’s ANDY McCLUSKEY talks about the impact Germany’s musical agitators had on a new breed of British pop stars. It’s West Berlin, it’s...

BOBBY ELLIOTT recounts how ’60s veterans found adapting to The Bay City Rollers, disco and heavy drinking managers a challenge. After 11...