Andrew Mueller is a travel writer, foreign correspondent, columnist, pundit and author. He has also been a rock critic for donkey's and has been in a country rock band The Blazing Zoo for nigh on a decade. We asked him if the former had given him any insights into the latter...
As Julian Barratt releases 'You Can't Handcuff The Wind', a single by alter-ego Richard Thorncroft, he guides Adrian Lobb through 13 favourite albums, from Miles Davis to Zappa, Fela Kuti and the soundtracks of the Wicker Man and more
A concept album that transcended its concept, a stealth mix-CD, global disco, sampledelic exotica, yacht rock by other means: the Australian group’s debut was many things, writes David Bennun - and above all it was, and remains, a joy