Andrew Jamison

Discover the 10 tracks from Radiohead Andrew rates above all others. In the days before online streaming, like most who became teenagers in the early 2000s, Radiohead was a staple of my CD collection. My brother had The Bends and I went on to buy OK Computer . I remember buying a copy of Kid A off of a mate at school, in a clear plastic case with ‘KID A’ scrawled on the front of it in black marker pen. I went home to find the tracks were in the wrong order and some skipped a

Hear Andrew read 'Listening to Ash' from his debut collection Happy Hour (Gallery Press, 2012). You can buy signed, first editions of Happy Hour here:

Discover Andrew Jamison's top 10 Ash tracks from across their back catalogue. Let’s Go Back to the Start I remember the 17th December 2001 like it was yesterday. It was the first gig I ever went to: Ash at the Ulster Hall. I could barely hear a thing for the 24 hours that followed due to the ringing in my ears but it was like nothing I’d experienced before. The lights, the sheer volume, the very energetic Belfast crowd full of teenagers like myself. The music of Ash is very c

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25 Years On It’s now just over 25 years since Coldplay’s debut album Parachutes was released. It was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize that year, but lost out to Badly Drawn Boy’s Hour of Bewilderbest (a fantastic album and worthy winner, and I’d argue more sustained and diverse in its concept and musicianship - in fact I’ve written about the first track, The Shining here). However, as we can all see, this did nothing to hamper the success of Coldplay who, as I write t

What is it? It’s the first track on this June 2000 debut, Mercury Prize winning indie album from Mancunian Damon Gough aka Badly Drawn...

In this new series of blog posts Andrew explores what he loves about some of his favourite music. Where did you hear it? I heard it...

Subscribe to Andrew's monthly newsletter here for all his latest writing. If you enjoy this post you can read more of Andrew's writing on music, as part of his Sound Bites series. With the band's first gig in 16 years tomorrow evening in Cardiff, I've collated my top 10 Oasis tracks. As someone who spent a disproportionate amount of their adolescence strumming along to Oasis songs at the end of their bed, with the band’s first gig in 16 years happening tomorrow night at the P

I was saddened to hear of the death of Brian Wilson yesterday. I've always loved The Beach Boys, and I think Pet Sounds is a wonder. I...

I’ve written a new blog post on what I love about ‘Birds of a Feather’ by Billie Eilish, via Heaney, Pater, the Mona Lisa and baggy jeans.