Paul Bradshaw

Interview / 23 April 2026 Interview 25 years after the release of Free All Angels, Tim Wheeler looks back on the album that saved Ash Summer, 1995. When most 18-year-olds were nervously picking up their exam results, Tim Wheeler, Mark Hamilton and Rick McMurray were releasing their sixth single, playing Top Of The Pops and knocking U2 out the Top 10. When their debut album, 1977, hit a few months later, Ash were already world-beaters.

Things To Do / 10 March 2026 Interview Hit history podcast You're Dead To Me is going on tour, so we've asked host Greg Jenner to rank the historical accuracy of pop classics. Watch the full video here How much do ABBA really know about Waterloo? Why are Florence + The Machine singing about 14th poetry? How exactly do you walk like an Egyptian?

Music / 30 March 2026 Plus One Why have a Top 10 when you can have one more? Here are our 11 favourite Pixies songs, ranked Look at any list of the most influential bands of all time and the Pixies probably won’t take too many top spots. But retcon the band out of musical history (like a better version of the movie Yesterday…) and everything would be different. There’d be no Nirvana. No Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins or Modest Mouse. The Strokes, Wolf Alice, PJ Harvey and Weezer wouldn’t exist.