Too Much Too Young has been named a Times/Sunday Times Books of the Year. 'Jerry Dammers set out with a goal: to unite black & white, male & female, in punky ska that would serve [...]

How The Specials and 2 Tone empowered a generation to believe in a multicultural future Against a backdrop of division and despair, disaffected youth united through The Specials and 2 Tone to challenge the Thatcherite [...]

‘Richard Branson was shrieking: has anyone signed them yet?’ The invasion of all-female ska band the Bodysnatchers In an extract from a new book documenting the 2 Tone ska scene of late 70s and early [...]

The Lost Album of the Beatles is the Guardian / Observer Book of the Day 'Daniel Rachel imagines what the next Beatles album might have been like, with painstaking detail and great stories,' writes David [...]

Calling all fans! Brand new #documentary charting the birth, the rise and the fall of the music culture movement that put the focus on Britishness, looking at the intertwining fortunes and rivalries of #Blur, #Oasis, [...]

◀︎ TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT ► 5 Nights with Simon Fowler (Ocean Colour Scene) Birmingham • Liverpool • Edinburgh • London In conversation with award-winning author Daniel Rachel, Simon will discuss his life as the lead singer [...]

Singer/Songwriter and Ocean Colour Scene frontman Simon Fowler goes head to head with author longtime friend and collaborator Daniel Rachel, in a war of the words! They talk about collaborating on their new book, their [...]

Listen again as Simon Fowler (Ocean Colour Scene) talks to Chris Evans about his new memoir and plays three exclusive live acousitc songs. Listen here. Simon plays at 2hrs. Watch Ocean Colour Scene’s Simon Fowler [...]

Episode 124 features a great interview with  Simon Fowler (Ocean Colour Scene) sharing stories about #paulweller, #oceancolourscene and how copying other singers compares to Sebastian Coe running the mile....! Listen and then read all about [...]

Strictly limited edition coffee table book with rare & exclusive 7” single Pre-order ONE FOR THE ROAD today at: www.ourfavourite.shop ‘When you find that things are getting wild don’t you want books like these…’ ONE [...]

Daniel Rachel hears 100 hours of Beatles audio – “it’s like the DNA in a crime scene” Daniel Rachel, old pal of the pod, has just published ‘Like Some Forgotten Dream: What If The Beatles [...]

Oasis: Knebworth Two Nights that Will Live Forever is a Sunday Times Bestseller The inside story of the band's record breaking weekend in August 1996 Photographs by Jill Furmanovsky. Words by Daniel Rachel