By Rozonda Salas In my 25 years as a Prefab Sprout fan , I have always seen the spotlight fall on Paddy McAloon, genius singer and songwriter. The other members of the band (who no longer belong to it ) Wendy Smith , Martin McAloon and Neil Conti , agreed to this and remained discreetly … Continue reading
By Gina G The much awaited new single from Prefab Sprout will be available for download on the 7th October. It’s already had a few plays on BBC 6 Music and Radio 2. The cover art looks like this: and if you haven’t heard it yet I can recommend you watch Tim Linnell’s brilliant Hitchcocked … Continue reading
By Miranda Diboll. We especially love the vinyl-look CDs. For a moment my heart stopped and thought they were 7 inch singles. A Prefab Sprout boxset is a rare thing, last seen when the dinosaurs were roaming the earth, so the history books say. Or at least when Mart still had blonde hair (sorry Marty). … Continue reading
If you’re a Sprout fan like us at RepHERtoire, you will probably be a little nervous about what the latest visual effort will be. You see, Prefab Sprout videos are curious beasts. There’s never been a huge budget for them and the directors often have strange ideas as how to stretch this budget to the … Continue reading
by Rozonda Salas Everyone who knows me knows that I have a passion for 80s music, especially for groups like Aztec Camera, Scritti Politti, Danny Wilson and, above all, my favourite band for 25 years, Prefab Sprout. As I started following these bands in my teens, and many of them were led by young men … Continue reading
By Gina G. James Blunt was on Twitter yesterday apologising for sending out an e mail to all those on the Warner Bros mailing list. Strangely enough it contained a link to his new single. It could’ve been worse I suppose: an e mail to his girlfriend grovelling for forgiveness, an e mail to his … Continue reading
by Gina G Kitchenware Records, not dead yet Keith Armstrong’s new business venture, going back to the original name of ‘Soul Kitchen’. Continue reading
