Steve Pafford

Put on the blue light: having a cryo facial at Purexpert

Cryotherapy is the science of exposing yourself to intense sub-zero temperatures in order to treat pain, stimulate a range of health benefits and give your metabolism an extra kick start.…

August 1, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Record Collector Presents… Rolling Stones in the 70s: Some Girls and soul sisters, out now

July 22, 2026

Record Collector Presents… Rolling Stones in the 70s: Exile On Main St. at Nellcote, out now

“Exile On Main St. wouldn’t have happened without Keith Richards’ heroin addiction. Young Americans wouldn’t have happened without Bowie’s cocaine addiction. Alcohol played a big part…

Music

July 14, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Random Jukebox: Jack White & Alicia Keys find Another Way To Die

July 12, 2026

Every night is Friday night: Obscure Pet Shop Boys fifth night review

July 10, 2026

It’s Thursday night: Obscure Pet Shop Boys fourth night review

July 9, 2026

It was a Wednesday night: Obscure Pet Shop Boys third night review

July 8, 2026

Highlights

Late on Tuesday evening: Obscure Pet Shop Boys second night review

July 7, 2026

Someone told me Monday: Obscure Pet Shop Boys first night review

July 6, 2026

From London to Berlin: the Obscure Pet Shop Boys (p)review

July 5, 2026

Spawn In The USA: 250 reasons why I’m afraid of Americans

News

July 4, 2026

Record Collector Presents… Stevie Wonder: out now

Music

July 3, 2026

Say No Go: The surprise rehabilitation of Daryl Hall & John Oates (No Can Do)

July 2, 2026

Record Collector Presents… Blondie: out now

July 1, 2026

You can stop the music: The trouble with the Village People

Music

June 30, 2026

Random Jukebox

Random Jukebox: Neneh Cherry’s Manchild

March 10, 2026

Random Jukebox: The Hotrats’ Turn Ons

October 3, 2025

Random Jukebox: Garbage say The World Is Not Enough

August 25, 2025

Random Jukebox: Cyndi Lauper’s Into The Nightlife

June 22, 2025

Random Jukebox: Duran Duran’s A View To A Kill + how they took over Bond from Bowie

May 12, 2025

Random Jukebox: The Belle Stars’ Sign Of The Times

April 30, 2025

Random Jukebox: Robert Wyatt’s Shipbuilding

January 27, 2025

Random Jukebox: Dinah Washington’s Mad About The Boy

August 28, 2024

Assessing the Girl Power of the Spice Girls — 90s nostalgia or a lasting legacy?

It’s the ear worm that turned. If you want to divide the people in a room into lovers and haters, just put on the song that was released on my 27th birthday, no less: whaddya think about that?…

June 27, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Perfect 10: Spice Girls

June 26, 2026

byQuentin Harrison

More PMs than realities: why Britain is always going up the hill backwards

News

June 22, 2026

What did you expect to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Devon, perhaps?

News

June 4, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Perfect 10: Talking ’bout Marilyn Monroe in song

June 1, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Random Jukebox: Pondering Patti LaBelle’s big-haired Bond theme If You Asked Me To

May 24, 2026

We shall overcome? Why Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On is more relevant than ever

May 21, 2026

Age to the rhythm: Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Grace Jones (and why she’s younger than you think)

Music

May 19, 2026

Perfect 10: Produced by Brian Eno

Music

May 15, 2026

The day Frank Sinatra met Manic Street Preachers in Golders Green

Music

May 14, 2026

Music

Angel or Legend? Assessing Bob Marley

Reputation or record sales? It’s a simple fact that Bob Marley was the first rock star of reggae. The leonine, dressed-down, kickabout messiah looked and sounded like he could lead an exodus…

May 11, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Trending Now

Happiness is a place called Richmond: my erstwhile neighbour David Attenborough at 100

Felicitations and very happy centenary celebrations to the educator par excellence and one of the most inspirational humans on Planet Earth, Mr David Attenborough (sorry, not sorry, but the…

May 8, 2026

bySteve Pafford

May The Fourth Be With You: How Margaret Thatcher launched the Star Wars ‘holiday’

May 4, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Mick Ronson on the wall: Heaven and Hell in Hull

April 29, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Exclusive audio: Neil Tennant talks David Bowie, Michael Jackson and Take That

April 25, 2026

bySteve Pafford

The murder of Stephen Lawrence 33 years on

Lest we forget… It’s Stephen Lawrence Day in the ‘United‘ Kingdom. Which, in 2026, means that 33 years ago in its capital city an innocent young boy was savagely slain in a callous racially…

News

April 22, 2026

bySteve Pafford

100 words for Windsor

News

April 21, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Elizabeth Sladen: forever our Sarah Jane Smith

April 19, 2026

bySteve Pafford

You’re an actor too? That time I worked with David Tennant

April 18, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Trending Now

Random Jukebox: Goldfrapp’s Human

Sometimes you just have to roll with the selections of the random jukebox, and today it put on its red shoes and picked Human, a delicious standout from Goldfrapp’s glacial debut album from…

July 31, 2024

bySteve Pafford

Random Jukebox: Chris Cornell’s You Know My Name, from Casino Royale

July 19, 2024

bySteve Pafford

Random Jukebox: Blancmange’s Living On The Ceiling

June 13, 2024

bySteve Pafford

Random Jukebox: Ella Fitzgerald’s One Note Samba brings scat into ’69

April 25, 2024

bySteve Pafford

Random Jukebox

It Was 11 Years Ago Today: Dusty Springfield’s Faithful found in the nick of time

When Dusty Springfield ditched her American contract with Phillips and signed to Atlantic Records in 1968, the bouffant diva was making a decisive change in her career. At the time, Atlantic…

April 7, 2026

bySteve Pafford

The winners took it all: ABBA’s Waterloo at 52

Music

April 6, 2026

bySteve Pafford

One could almost call it an altar: ten things you didn’t know about Elizabeth Taylor

March 23, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Licence to flop: The trouble with Timothy Dalton

March 21, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Black celebration: dissecting Depeche Mode’s Violator

It’s 1990, and the trajectory of synthpop had undergone many great changes, the main one being that it had kind of dissolved. As the Eighties mutated into the Nineties, the fashion of big,…

March 19, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Even better than the real thing: 11 Irish Icons that aren’t U2

March 17, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Formidable femmes: The 115 women who changed the world

News

March 7, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Russell Crowe: Another one who’s ballooned

Screen

March 4, 2026

byjames Harris

Events

45 at 45(ish): Adam Ant is The Human League’s Mirror Man

In a different post, I did a bit of a switchback Sunday rewind and revisited some of the first slabs of vinyl I bought that expressly weren’t by Adam and his army of Ants. Number…

Music

February 28, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Music

February 13, 2026

bySteve Pafford

Die young, stay pretty: the intimacy and iconography of James Dean

True to his “live fast, die young” philosophy, James Byron Dean, the archetypal angry Rebel Without A Cause, was born 95 years ago today, just 24 years before being obliterated at the wheel of…

February 8, 2026

bySteve Pafford