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The Attic: An Eclectic End To Your Sunday Night
Jeff Cooper - 30 March 2008
'Today In Music': loadsa birthdays, anniversaries, etc, from this week... (oriignal, huh?) (previous shows)
Artist Song Album Info
SCARLET BLONDE Bedroom Superstar + There Is No Black & White Bedroom Superstars  Now based in London, DawnVic and Ditch GBH are originally from Sheffield. Their radio2XS Barn Session is coming soon...
HARRY CHAPIN Short Stories Short Stories This was the 2nd album by Harry Chapin, who died in 1981 when his car was hit by a truck in New York
AUSTRALIAN CRAWL Boys Light Up The Boys Light Up Formed 1978 by James Reyne & Simon Binks in Melbourne. This was a UK single in 1983
HORSLIPS Warm Sweet Breathe Of Love The Book Of Invasions The Irish 5-piece created some of the first and best 70s Celtic Rock from 1972 to 1980
PORCUPINE TREE 4 Chords That Made A Million Lightbulb Sun The PT were formed in Hemel Hempstead in 1987 by Steven Wilson 
Fear Of A Blank Planet Fear Of A Blank Planet
OASIS Cigarettes And Alcohol   This week in 1994, Oasis played at The Angel in Bedford. They were paid £100!
JOHN FOGERTY The Old Man Down The Road Centerfield This week in 1995, the Creedance Clearwater veteran went to No 1 on the US album chart with this album
CARS (The) Just What I Needed + My Best Friend's Girlfriend The Cars Ric Ocasek was born this week in 1949
GARY NUMAN Cars The Pleasure Principle Just a naff link from The Cars...
IT HUGS BACK Other Cars Go   ... and another one....
SNOW PATROL Chasing Cars Eyes Open ... that's enough Cars, then
BLUR There's No Other Way Leisure Blur's vocalist, Damon Albarn, was born this week  in 1968. Here's an early and a let track from the seminal London 90s band
Tender 13
PSYCHEDELIC FURS Pretty In Pink   The Psychedelic Furs (with The Teardrop Explodes) appeared this week in 1980 at The Lyceum Ballroom in London
HAWKWIND Psychedelic Warlords Hall Of The Mountain Grill A naff Psychedelic link...
SMITHS (The) How Soon Is Now Hatful Of Hollow This week in 1983, you could have been thoroughly depressed by a night out wth The Smiths at The Rock Garden in London
JOHNNY CASH Solitary Man American III: Solitary Man With Tom Petty on backing vocals, this track earned the album a grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance
TOM PETTY Honey Bee (Live) Running Down A Dream An unidentified live recording included on the 2007 Peter Bogdanovich movie
BLIND FAITH Well All Right Blind Faith Eric Clapton (Yardbirds, Cream), Ginger Baker (Graham Bond Org, Cream), Steve Winwood (Spencer Davis Grp, Traffic) & Ric Grech (Family)
KINKS Celluloid Heroes (live) Celluloid Heroes The Kinks recorded live in Los Angeles