Swimming Pool come from the underground music scene of Seville in suthern Spain and play a brand of shoegazey drem-noise.

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The Weather Prophets were Pete Astor’s second attempt to find success after the collapse of The Loft, and this slice of jangle pop was their debut single in 1986.

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I had never heard of The Human Beinz but their fiery fusion of R&B and garage rock caught my eear when it was used in Kill Bill by Quentin Tarantino.

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Do we like to funk on a sunny summer’s day? Yes we do. And we very much do when the soundtrack is Big Time by Rick James.

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This is a rather marvellous gem from the vaults – Vivian Stanshall being interviewed by Toyah Wilcox on a long forgotten TV show back in 1982.

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Here’s a heavenly marriage of the glorious harmonies of The Congos and the madcap production genius of Lee Perry.

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Gnoomes are a husband-wife duo of Russian expats in Slovenia, playing a fusion of krautrock and psychedelia they have dubbed “Stargaze.”

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The Controllers enjoyed a brief moment in the first wave of LA punk bands, including this love song for an amputee.

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The Chi-Lites used this euphoric five-second earworm 33 years before it became the sample that launched the solo career of eyoncé Knowles.

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I’ve stayed in a lot of hotels. Some good, some bad. Some luxury escapes, some fleapits. But none could compete for all-round awfulness with The Walton Hotel in Nottingham.

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