A blog about popular song by Mark Higgins.
This month it’s an absolutely jam packed edition of Bitter Fingers Radio – frankly I’m surprised we’ve managed to get it onto the internet in one piece.
My special guest for the show is Tom Williams, bandleader of Tom Williams & the Boat who are one of my favourite new bands at the moment. Their new [...]
In: New Music
22 Feb 2011Dear reader, are you familiar with the musical stylings of the popular Canadian beat combo Mother Mother? Well, you should be on account of them being very good.
Depsite being released in 2008, their album O My Heart was one of my favourites of last year when it got a UK re-release. It mixed up the [...]
Here, slightly later than planned, is the third volume of my radio show for London Fields Radio. This one even made the sun come out in cloudy Hackney (which I am taking full credit for).
I’m still working out exactly what the show’s about, but as always you can expect some of the finest upbeat pop [...]
In: Music Video
29 Mar 2010Mother Mother – Hayloft (Youtube)
A scorcher of a track for your Monday afternoon from Mother Mother. This was introduced to me by the lovely Lauren Laverne when I was working on her BBC 6 Music show (a station which you should all get involved in saving, by the by), and I was ashamed to say [...]
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