About

 

Well, where else would you expect me to be? Sleez, The Referee and The Captain, on the sea wall near the Lobster Smack, Canvey Island, 2005

Does the place look familiar?

I’m Keith Shackleton. I am a Yorkshireman who lives in New Zealand. I’ve also got an occasional reviewing gig as a contributor to Kevin Bronson’s Buzz Bands blog. Follow me on Twitter for regular music updates and other ramblings.

My #20EverythingSongs

Here’s the list from a Twitter move to catalogue twenty songs from my life which mean the most. Just as impossible and impermanent as any other list I might make. But..

1. The Walker Brothers – The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine (Anymore)
2. The Kinks – Picture Book
3. Lulu – Oh Me Oh My
4. Rudy Mills – John Jones
5. Mott the Hoople – Sea Diver
6. Wizzard – See My Baby Jive
7. Roxy Music – Street Life
8. Van Morrison – Cyprus Avenue
9. The Clash – Janie Jones
10. Elvis Costello – Watching the Detectives
11. John Martyn – Small Hours
12. The Human League – Sound of the Crowd
13. ABC – All of my Heart
14. The Smiths – Handsome Devil
15. The Blue Nile – Heatwave
16. Inner City – Paradise
17. Pet Shop Boys – Being Boring
18. Radiohead – The Bends
19. Catatonia – Road Rage
20. The Cribs – Ancient History