Music

Neil Cooper on the unbearable lightness of being the B-52s – forty odd years hangin’ with the Deadbeat club.

James Metcalfe chooses his favourite records. By Hugo Fluendy

Comacat choose their favourite records. By Hugo Fluendy

Arlo Parks chooses the songs that influenced her

Paul Research on his most loved records. By Hugo Fluendy

Robert Anderson chooses his favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy

Callum Easter chooses his favourite records. By Hugo Fluendy

Dot Allison chooses her favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy

Oliver Kass chooses his favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy

Vashti Bunyan fled the 1960s music business to roam Britain on a horse and cart, leaving behind an album of such intense beauty that it became an international cult hit 30 years later. Sylvia Patterson welcomes back folk’s most talented absentee

Keith Farquhar chooses his favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy

Law Holt choose her favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy

Pretty Preachers Club choose their favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy

Dave MacLean of Django Django chooses his favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy

Kirsten Adamson chooses her favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy 

Jah Wobble & Invaders of the Heart @Bongo Club, Edinburgh
April 26. By Neil Cooper

Vic Galloway chooses his favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy 

Paul Vickers chooses his favourite songs. By Hugo Fluendy

From “Falling and Laughing” to “Dilemma” Alistair Braidwood delights in the music of Edwyn Collins

Andrew Loog Oldham chooses the songs that influenced him          By Hugo Fluendy

Jill O’Sullivan chooses the songs that influenced her

Cloth guitarist Paul Swinton on the songs that influenced him

Joy Division were on the cusp of mainstream success forty years ago. Neil Cooper looks at how they conquered the world