STUART COUPE

  Nagging can make learning music a misery for everyone. But there are better ways to encourage your child to play.  www.shutterstock.com It’s 4pm on...

Like many youngsters of the late 70s, my first exposure to punk rock was memorable and social – perhaps, even, societal. It was...

You're in Los Angeles just before Christmas in 1996. You've had breakfast with Iggy Pop and there's a few hours to kill before you're...

(1) Launceston. 1972. Listening to the first and second Velvets albums in Launceston (on vinyl – natch . . .) with my friend David Woodhall...

You're in Los Angeles just before Christmas in 1996. You've had breakfast with Iggy Pop and there's a few hours to kill before you're...

 HE JUST WASN'T MADE FOR THESE TIMESTowards the end of 1996 and in Los Angeles I had the most surreal day of my music...

The first time I set eyes on Allen Ginsberg was in the basement of the City Lights bookshop in San Francisco in the early...

Towards the close of 1996 I was in Los Angeles at the end of a long trip which had started with a Bruce Springsteen...

In the early 1980s I was lucky enough to hang out at Martin Sharp's house and interview Tiny Tim for RAM magazine. This is...

For all of the 1980s I wrote a weekly music column for the Sun Herald, then the biggest selling newspaper in the country. They...