
Those of you based in the UK will know that Liverpool is European Culture Capital this year and to celebrate this (whatever it actually is) I thought I'd stick up a quick little post in honour of our friends up North. I considered basing it around the city's most famous sons, but you can probably get all The Coral songs you like elsewhere. For some reason the late 70s and early 80s saw a Merseyside music scene born that, whilst not as commercially successful as the Merseybeat bands of the 60s, spawned many great bands in its own [...]