Michael Jackson Considers Reunion Tour

  With news that Michael Jackson is considering touring with his brothers Neal Zetter joins the VPME to offer some words of advice "Are you black Are you Caucasian Are you Chinese Are you Asian Or are you the start of an alien invasion Michael Jackson I always preferred you when You wore a tank...

“Too Cool For Skool!”….. Operator Please Interview

"Get What You Want" By Operator Please You may well think, when listening to the increasingly irrelevant singles chart, that you can actually hear the death rattle in the hoarse wheezing throat of popular music. This view would be further enhanced, if you were to chance across "Pop Idol" on TV and subjected your ears...

“Deep Blue Something” The Charlotte Hatherley Interview

"Again" By Chalotte Hatherley It's a obviously a big decision for anybody to leave a successful group at the height of their fame, but it is said that music is the purest form of self expression and many artists feel the need to branch out away from their band mates and tread a different path....

Whats’s On Your I Pod

Yes sometimes nice people send us music, sometimes we "randomly" discover it .. So whats on the VPME I-pod this month ? (in no particular order) Operator Please - "Get What You Want" Pure incendiary, deep down and dirty rock n roll - This is where its at ! A classic. This is a band...

The Royal We – Album Review

"The opening track of The Royal We is a little misleading. 'Back and Forth Forever' doesn't quite seem to fit the rest of the album, but when a band only has ten songs to their name (including two covers and one b-side on their first and only single), they probably can't afford to be choosy...

The Wedding Present – Liverpool Academy 27/10/07

"I'm Not Always So Stupid" (from the "George Best- Plus" Re-release) By The Wedding Present The Wedding Present- George Best Anniversary Tour -Liverpool Academy 27/10/2007 It's hard to believe its twenty years since the release of The Wedding Present's seminal "George Best" album, listening to it nowadays you realise what a classic collection of songs...