FEATURE: February Sounds from TSOTC HQ
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,...
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Jan 25, 2022
FEATURE: January Sounds from TSOTC HQ
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...
Oct 10, 2020
INTERVIEW: Sonorous Hue Studios
10th October 2020 With the music industry currently in a state of extreme fragility, many artists, performers and others involved in...
May 8, 2020
FEATURED ESSAY: Changes in Music Consumption from 1970 to 1990
An essay comparing and and contrasting recorded popular music consumption in 1970 with recorded popular music consumption in 1990. ~ ~ ~...
May 1, 2020
FEATURED ESSAY: Glam Rock & Fashion
An essay discussing the 1970s music genre of glam rock, and how a significant factor of its appeal was the fashions associated with it. ~...
Nov 1, 2019
INTERVIEW: An Introduction To MiG 15
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...
Mar 19, 2019
FEATURE: Five Essential Records for Record Store Day 2019
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...
Mar 1, 2019
FEATURE: ‘What A Young Musician Hears When She Listens To XTC'
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...
Feb 25, 2019
CIRCU5 Comes To Town!
The latest news from one of TSOTC’s current favourite acts... CIRCU5 – the project of multi-instrumentalist Steve Tilling (TC&I) – is now...
Nov 1, 2018
Writing On Music: 'The Future's Rosy!' - Wilko Johnson Award Entry 2018
‘Music nowadays all sounds the same’. Here’s a favourite phrase of a multitude of today’s music consumers. And whilst it’s not...
Oct 10, 2018
XTC and the Media: An Essay
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...
Aug 11, 2018
INTERVIEW: Colin Moulding on XTC, TC&I, upcoming gigs and more!
Colin Moulding (left) and Terry Chambers, as ‘TC&I’. Photo credit to Geoff Winn. It is a peaceful, sunny Sunday evening. Looking out of...
Aug 8, 2018
INTERVIEW: Steve Tilling (aka Circu5)
Incorporating forgetive songwriting, a wide range of musical styles, and a futuristic album concept that would make even Peter Gabriel...
May 20, 2018
Liverpool Lightnight Arts Festival 2018
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...
Oct 30, 2017
The Red Frame/White Light Saga
‘Red frame white light! Six three two three double o three!’ Those are the immortal words uttered by Andy McCluskey in Orchestral...
Oct 2, 2017
Track of the Week 6: 'Follow You Follow Me' by Genesis
Released 25th February 1978 In celebration of the fact that today is Genesis guitarist Mike Rutherford's sixty seventh birthday, this...
Sep 18, 2017
Track of the Week 5: 'Down In The Park' by Tubeway Army
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...
Sep 11, 2017
Track of the Week 4: I Will Follow by U2
On this day in 2014, U2 released 'Songs Of Innocence', an album that almost immediately sparked uproar amongst iTunes users when they...
Sep 4, 2017
Track of the Week 3- 'Robot Man' by OMD
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...
Aug 21, 2017
Track of the Week 2: 'The Sound of the Crowd' by The Human League
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...
Aug 14, 2017
Track of the Week 1: 'See You' by Depeche Mode
Kicking off this (hopefully) regular feature with a classic track from those Basildon lads, Depeche Mode. On hearing their new album (a...
Aug 14, 2017
The Genesis of Genesis: The Story of 'The Garden Wall'
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...
Nov 13, 2016
'Seventh Wave' Electronic Music Conference
Andy McCluskey Speaks at 'Seventh Wave' Electronic Music Conference- Birmingham and Midland Institute, Birmingham, 12/11/16 Yesterday...
Feb 26, 2016
‘Electricity’ – The Influence Of Krautrock On The UK’s Next Generation
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...
Aug 14, 2015
The Hollies: The Twilight Years From Dylan To Disco
BOBBY ELLIOTT recounts how ’60s veterans found adapting to The Bay City Rollers, disco and heavy drinking managers a challenge. After 11...
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