Birthdays
1941 Captain Beefheart
1953 Boris Blank (Yello)
1953 Duke Erickson (Garbage)
1959 Pete Trewavas (Marillion)
1961 Damian O’Neill (The Undertones, That Petrol Emotion)
1965 Adam Jones (Tool)
News
1976 Bassist Paul Simonon auditioned for the London SS, the band who went on to become The Clash.
2018 Irish musician and singer-songwriter Dolores O’Riordan from The Cranberries died unexpectedly while she was in London for a recording sessions.
Album releases
1990 They Might Be Giants – Flood
1990 The Sundays – Reading, Writing and Arithmetic.
2008 The Magnetic Fields – Distortion
2013 Yo La Tengo – Fade
2021 Front Line Assembly -Mechanical Soul
Singles releases
1982 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)