The rarest of rare grooves, T’Ain’t No Big Thing was the only single by The Jovialetts. Who were they? A vocal girl group of the mid-1960s. Beyond that… who knows.

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RIP Jerry Lee Lewis (1935-2022). Last of the rock’n’roll legends, The Killer might not have been the greatest of men but his musical legacy is peerless.

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A lot of bands jumped on the punk bandwagon in 1977, rebranding themselves with spiky hair and safety pins, jagged guitar riffs and estuarine vocals. None were worse, or less convincing, than The Banned.

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Here’s another sweet slice of Northern Soul from the vaults – a smooth ballad that introduced The Montclairs in 1969.

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In the summer of ’77 Skids formed in Dunfermline, which is in Scotland and not to be confused with Dumbarton.

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Does anyone remember The Freeze? Probably not unless you were living in Scotland in the early days of punk.

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Here’s another of those great first-wave postpunk bands from Edinburgh. I’ve still got their debut single, Horrorshow, and their only album, Author! Author!

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Dead Fingers Talk are another of those bands that shone brightly for a brief moment before slipping through the cracks in the immediate aftermath of punk.

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Flowers were another of the Scottish postpunk bands that blossomed briefly, recording only 11 songs over the course of their short career.

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Back in 1977 I don’t think I knew what rockabilly was, and I’d never heard Elvis Presley’s early Sun Sessions. Then along came a cool dude with impeccable punk credentials called Robert Gordon.

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