Not Unloved

Rejoice! Camellia Hartman and The Soulful Saints are back with a soulful stroller to caress away our cares. "Return The Favor" i...

One of the down sides of labels such as Kent  using generic sleeves for their releases (or, more accurately, their various series of release...

Marva Holiday season, that is.  In October The Quietus ran former Boo Radleys fellow Martin Carr 's Baker's Dozen .  One of his c...

"It's so lonely being together  Knowing in our hearts  We're two worlds apart" Sigh. So many of us have experienced ...

Ebay itself must have laughed when I speculatively bid 15.25 GBP (note that extra 25p just in case somebody was stoopid enough to bid 15 qui...

If   Beatin' Rhythm in Manchester wasn't quite the palace of delights it had been the last time I visited it 4 years ago, I still c...

The latest instalment of Numero Group 's Eccentric Soul series, The Dynamic Label , is, from start to finish, brilliant.  There are...

Kent time again! Their Apollas compilation had been winking at me from the cd racks for a while and when I finally took the time to do...

There could be hard times ahead so Not Unloved is stockpiling records with the fervour of a mad-eyed doomsday cultist preparing for The Arm...

Kent Records releases so many 45s that it's easy to fall behind.  That and the fact that the price of their singles...

Somehow, more than 40 years after Northern Soul became a phenomenon in the UK, incredible unreleased songs are still being unearthed in reco...

How I managed to completely forget the existence of a tune as all-conquering as "He Loves Me" by Detroit's  The Chalfontes i...

Last weekend's Blackpool Tower Soul Weekender was an unalloyed joy.  Of course the music was immense and invigorating and moving , th...

Reading the recent Quietus article about Divine has precipitated another small bout of historical jealousy .  To be honest, I never really ...

It was pathetic, really.  I'd lost out in yet another ebay auction (I make that 3 times this year) for a reissue of the modern soul reco...