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<channel><title>Beyond the Grooves</title><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk</link><item><title>A History of British Guitar Music</title><pubDate>2026-03-07 12:51:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/a-history-of-british-guitar-music-1</link><description>From Beatlemania, to Blur Bursting Britpops Bubble
The Sex Pistols wanting Anarchy to Joy Division urging us to dance to the radio</description></item><item><title>Dispatches from the Goldfish Bowl: A Tribute to Stereophonics &#039;Word Gets Around’</title><pubDate>2026-03-03 21:05:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/wake-up-and-smell-the-rain</link><description>One of the greates debut albums ever.</description></item><item><title>&#039;Help&#039;: When the Battle of Britpop Took a Ceasefire for War Child</title><pubDate>2026-03-01 18:51:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/help-when-the-battle-of-britpop-took-a-ceasefire-for-war-child</link><description>The greatest charity albums ever.</description></item><item><title>&#039;The Sound&#039; of a Generation: Celebrating 10 Years of &#039;I Like It When You Sleep...&#039;</title><pubDate>2026-02-26 19:20:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-sound-of-a-generation-celebrating-10-years-of-i-like-it-when-you-sleep</link><description>10 Years of &#039;I Like It When You Sleep&#039;</description></item><item><title>The Gallagher Ledger: A Journey Through the Songbook of Noel Gallagher</title><pubDate>2026-02-26 11:18:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/noel-gallagher-a-life-in-music</link><description>Noel Gallagher, his story told through the songs.</description></item><item><title>Sheep, Drizzle &amp; Rock n Roll. Rockfield Studios</title><pubDate>2026-02-24 12:37:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/sheep-drizzle-rock-n-roll-rockfield-studios</link><description>The studio on the farm</description></item><item><title>&#039;The Best of The Beatles&#039; – In Defence of the Greatest Hits Album.</title><pubDate>2026-02-21 13:01:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/i-d-have-to-say-the-best-of-the-beatles</link><description>My take on Greatest Hits Albums</description></item><item><title>A Walk onto Matthew Street and Down the Stairs.</title><pubDate>2026-02-20 12:45:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/a-walk-onto-matthew-street-and-down-the-stairs</link><description>The greatest club in the world...</description></item><item><title>From the Scaffolding to the Studio: 10 Years of Blossoms</title><pubDate>2026-02-17 19:12:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/from-the-scaffolding-to-the-studio-10-years-of-blossoms</link><description>How&#039;s it been a decade?</description></item><item><title>The Filth and the Fury: How the Sex Pistols Declared War on England</title><pubDate>2026-02-16 11:49:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/england-s-dreaming</link><description>Don&#039;t accept the old order, get rid of it</description></item><item><title>And Into the Sea. Goes Pretty England and Me.</title><pubDate>2026-02-15 00:00:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/and-into-the-sea-goes-pretty-england-and-me</link><description>The Blur story</description></item><item><title>&#039;Let It All Out: Ten Years of Hills End&#039;</title><pubDate>2026-02-14 20:24:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/let-it-all-out-ten-years-of-hills-end</link><description>Hills End turns ten</description></item><item><title>An Indie Valentine: The Ultimate Love &amp; Heartbreak Playlist</title><pubDate>2026-02-14 00:00:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/valentines-day</link><description>My favourite indie love songs</description></item><item><title>Go Down, Soft Sound</title><pubDate>2026-02-11 11:25:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/godownsoftsound</link><description>Don&#039;t call it a spade, if it isn&#039;t a spade.</description></item><item><title>0121, Do One!</title><pubDate>2026-02-10 18:53:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/0121-do-one</link><description>Fancy a Pint at The Rainbow?</description></item><item><title>It&#039;s Not The Beatles, It&#039;s Only a DJ: Big Beach Boutique II</title><pubDate>2026-02-08 15:47:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/it-s-not-the-beatles-it-s-only-a-dj-big-beach-boutique-ii</link><description>Perhaps the most important British Gig ever. The Greatest Party We’ll Never Be Allowed to Throw Again: Big Beach Boutique II</description></item><item><title>The Roaring 20&#039;s: The Best Songs of the Decade. So Far</title><pubDate>2026-02-08 12:45:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-roaring-20-s-the-best-songs-of-the-decade-so-far</link><description>My favourite songs of the 2020s so far.</description></item><item><title>The Good Ship Albion</title><pubDate>2026-02-04 13:44:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-good-ship-albion-charting-the-tumultuous-voyage-of-the-libertines</link><description>Charting the Tumultuous Voyage of The Libertines</description></item><item><title>About the Young Idea</title><pubDate>2026-02-03 14:29:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/about-the-young-idea</link><description>Public Schools, Kidney Machines, War, Friendship, Milk Floats. Ladies &amp; Gentleman. The Jam!</description></item><item><title>The Emerald Wave: How Ireland Reclaimed the Global Stage</title><pubDate>2026-01-31 20:44:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-emerald-wave-how-ireland-reclaimed-the-global-stage</link><description>There&#039;s something in the Guinness</description></item><item><title>The Albums of My Life</title><pubDate>2026-01-09 21:33:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-albums-of-my-life</link><description>25 years, 25 albums</description></item><item><title>We Did Believe The Hype</title><pubDate>2026-01-09 11:36:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/we-did-believe-the-hype</link><description>20 years of Dirty Dancefloors, New Ringtones and Sexy Little Swines.</description></item><item><title>A Decade Without the Starman</title><pubDate>2026-01-09 10:10:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/a-decade-without-the-starman</link><description>The Man Who Fell to Earth, and changed everything</description></item><item><title>The Songs That Saved Your Life</title><pubDate>2026-01-06 18:53:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-songs-that-saved-your-life</link><description>25 years, 25 songs</description></item><item><title>Beyond the Grooves Awards 2025</title><pubDate>2025-12-30 15:08:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/beyond-the-grooves-awards-2025</link><description>It&#039;s that time of year again</description></item><item><title>2025 Wrapped</title><pubDate>2025-12-28 16:35:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/2025-wrapped</link><description>What a year!</description></item><item><title>Top 15 Songs of 2025</title><pubDate>2025-12-20 16:13:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/top-15-songs-of-2025</link><description>My favourite songs of 2025</description></item><item><title>The Beatles Anthology 2025</title><pubDate>2025-12-15 18:15:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-beatles-anthology-2025</link><description>My overriding thoughts after watching Anthology.</description></item><item><title>Oasis: Live 25</title><pubDate>2025-12-13 11:08:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/live-25</link><description>41 shows, 5 months, 6 continents, 2 brothers, 23 songs and a 15 year wait. Oasis Live 25</description></item><item><title>Spike Island: A Cultural Cornerstone, or A Bad Stone Roses Gig?</title><pubDate>2025-12-06 15:09:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/spike-island-a-cultural-cornerstone-or-a-bad-stone-roses-gig</link><description>Which was it?</description></item><item><title>Who Won the Battle of Britpop</title><pubDate>2025-11-15 14:40:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/who-won</link><description>Blur vs Oasis. Who really won?</description></item><item><title>Ziggy Played Guitar</title><pubDate>2025-11-09 13:13:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/ziggy-played-guitar</link><description>How Bowie ended one of his most iconic characters</description></item><item><title>The Toppermost of the Poppermost</title><pubDate>2025-11-09 10:47:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-toppermost-of-the-poppermost</link><description>Why The Beatles stopped playing live</description></item><item><title>She Dreams &#039;Purple&#039;</title><pubDate>2025-10-17 18:52:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/she-dreams-purple</link><description>The story of Wunderhorse</description></item><item><title>Boys in the Better Land</title><pubDate>2025-10-11 18:27:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/boys-in-the-better-land</link><description>From the &#039;Liberty Belle&#039; to the biggest band in the world</description></item><item><title>Through a &#039;Storm in Heaven&#039;</title><pubDate>2025-09-28 19:15:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/through-a-storm-in-heaven</link><description>The story of The Verve</description></item><item><title>Here, There &amp; Everywhere</title><pubDate>2025-09-27 14:20:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/here-there-everywhere</link><description>The timeless legacy and impact of The Beatles.</description></item><item><title>London Loves</title><pubDate>2025-09-21 13:59:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/london-loves</link><description>From Punk Anthems to Dance Classics to Britpop. The Capital has always produced some brilliant tunes</description></item><item><title>Six Of the Best</title><pubDate>2025-09-20 21:30:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/six-of-the-best</link><description>Genesis save Peter Gabriel</description></item><item><title>On the 6th Day God Created. Manchester</title><pubDate>2025-09-20 15:23:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/manchestertop25</link><description>I might annoy some people with this one!</description></item><item><title>A Town of Timeless Melodies</title><pubDate>2025-09-20 13:02:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/a-town-of-timeless-melodies</link><description>From the Streets of Kenny, to the Banks of the Mersey and even a little trip to Strawberry Fields. Liverpool has always been musics home in the U.K.</description></item><item><title>Through the &#039;Looking Glass&#039;: The Story of The  La&#039;s</title><pubDate>2025-09-14 18:34:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/through-the-looking-glass-the-story-of-the-la-s</link><description>How one of Britain&#039;s best bands, only recorded one album</description></item><item><title>Live Aid: When the World Stopped to Listen</title><pubDate>2025-07-13 14:22:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/live-aid-when-the-world-stopped-to-listen</link><description>The story of the most important concert ever.</description></item><item><title>Back to Birmingham: Sabbath Go &#039;Back to the Beginning&#039;</title><pubDate>2025-07-09 20:22:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/back-to-birmingham-sabbath-go-back-to-the-begining</link><description>They&#039;re back where they started.</description></item><item><title>Why They Still Matter</title><pubDate>2025-07-07 19:53:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/why-does-it-still-matter</link><description>Why Oasis still matter, and why they are still inspiring the youth of today.</description></item><item><title>Glastonbury 2025: Biggest Moments</title><pubDate>2025-07-04 14:34:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/glastonbury-2025-biggest-moments</link><description>The biggest moments from Worthy Farm</description></item><item><title>Glastonbury Moments</title><pubDate>2025-06-26 18:22:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/glastonbury-moments</link><description>My favourite Glastonbury Moments</description></item><item><title>A Special Moment</title><pubDate>2025-05-10 18:36:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/a-special-moment</link><description>Noel comes to town</description></item><item><title>From Llandudno to the Limelight</title><pubDate>2025-05-08 19:07:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/from-llandudno-to-the-limelight</link><description>The history of Catfish &amp; the Bottlemen</description></item><item><title>How the Hacienda Changed the World</title><pubDate>2025-05-05 11:46:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/how-the-hacienda-changed-the-world</link><description>The club that shook Britain. 
Home of the 24 Hour Party People</description></item><item><title>Ashes to Echoes: How Pompeii Launched Pink Floyd Into the Stratosphere</title><pubDate>2025-05-03 13:53:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/ashes-to-echoes-how-pompeii-launched-pink-floyd-into-the-stratosphere</link><description>Pink Floyd&#039;s Most Historic and Maybe Important Moment</description></item><item><title>The Past Was Yours, But the Future’s Mine</title><pubDate>2025-04-30 20:12:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-past-was-yours-but-the-future-s-mine-the-timeless-legacy-of-the-stone-roses</link><description>The timeless legacy of The Stone Roses</description></item><item><title>Theirs Is A Light That Will Never Go Out</title><pubDate>2025-04-29 20:41:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/theirs-is-a-light-that-will-never-go-out</link><description>The most important British band ever?
Maybe...</description></item><item><title>Finding Their Place</title><pubDate>2025-04-26 10:49:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/finding-their-place</link><description>Where do Sleep Token go next?</description></item><item><title>My First Time</title><pubDate>2025-04-12 18:18:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/my-first-time</link><description>My first Record Store Day</description></item><item><title>Festival Anthems</title><pubDate>2025-04-07 18:19:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/festival-anthems</link><description>A few of my favourite festival anthems.</description></item><item><title>Darkness on the Edge of Toon</title><pubDate>2025-03-23 14:42:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/darkness-on-the-edge-of-toon</link><description>The rise of the Geordie Springsteen</description></item><item><title>Stuck in the Middle With You</title><pubDate>2025-03-18 13:37:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/stuck-in-the-middle-with-you</link><description>My favourite songs from the Midlands</description></item><item><title>Long Live Our Noble Queen</title><pubDate>2025-03-09 10:19:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/long-live-our-noble-queen</link><description>&quot;I won&#039;t be a rock star. I will be a legend&quot;</description></item><item><title>Golden Years</title><pubDate>2025-02-12 13:29:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/golden-years</link><description>David Bowie 1971 to 1983</description></item><item><title>Tales of Stockport, Scaffolding and Spag Bol.</title><pubDate>2025-01-26 11:13:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/tales-of-stockport-scaffolding-and-spag-bol-1</link><description>Good evening, we are Blossoms from Stockport</description></item><item><title>The Poor Mans Art Collection</title><pubDate>2025-01-18 15:40:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-poor-mans-art-collection</link><description>Discover how album covers play a crucial role in telling an album’s story.</description></item><item><title>I&#039;ll Always Love the Way You Say Glasgow</title><pubDate>2025-01-15 18:59:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/i-ll-always-love-the-way-you-say-glasgow</link><description>My favourites from North of the Border</description></item><item><title>Songs from the Emerald Isle</title><pubDate>2025-01-14 19:05:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/jailbreaks-roman-holiday-s-and-brown-eyes-songs-from-the-emerald-isle</link><description>My favourite songs from Ireland. From U2, to The Cranberries, The Pogues to NewDad</description></item><item><title>Because We Need Each Other</title><pubDate>2025-01-10 18:33:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/because-we-need-each-other</link><description>Oasis 2009 to 2025</description></item><item><title>Beyond the Grooves Award 2024</title><pubDate>2024-12-07 15:42:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/beyond-the-grooves-award-2024</link><description>God that&#039;s come around quick!</description></item><item><title>You Were My Favourite For A Long Time</title><pubDate>2024-11-09 11:54:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/you-were-my-favourite-for-a-long-time</link><description>The best songs of the year</description></item><item><title>Our Friends in the North</title><pubDate>2024-11-03 12:17:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/our-friends-in-the-north</link><description>Why do we love Blossoms so much?</description></item><item><title>On The List</title><pubDate>2024-09-29 18:12:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/on-the-list</link><description>25 songs, for Live 25</description></item><item><title>The B-Sides</title><pubDate>2024-09-28 11:25:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-b-sides</link><description>Who would you like?</description></item><item><title>Breakups, Makeups, Comebacks, Farewells</title><pubDate>2024-09-10 20:29:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/britishguitarmusic2025-1</link><description>2019 to 2024.</description></item><item><title>It’s Been Five Years</title><pubDate>2024-09-02 21:13:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/it-s-been-five-years</link><description>How does that Bowie song go?</description></item><item><title>Why Don’t You Piss Off</title><pubDate>2024-08-26 16:19:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/why-don-t-you-piss-off</link><description>Thoughts on New Order live in Manchester</description></item><item><title>A Song for a City: How Manchester Found Its Voice</title><pubDate>2024-05-22 18:25:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/a-song-for-a-city-how-manchester-found-its-voice</link><description>How a city rallied around a song.</description></item><item><title>Love&#039;s Got the World in Motion</title><pubDate>2024-05-21 19:02:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/how-new-order-made-british-football-cool-again</link><description>How New Order made British Football Cool Again</description></item><item><title>What If</title><pubDate>2024-05-13 21:07:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/what-if</link><description>They’re coming home</description></item><item><title>The Roaring 20s</title><pubDate>2024-04-21 11:58:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-roaring-20s</link><description>Why it&#039;s still an exciting time to be a music fan</description></item><item><title>It&#039;s Just Bangers</title><pubDate>2024-03-24 18:30:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/it-s-just-bangers</link><description>Ladies &amp; Gentlemen, The Vaccines</description></item><item><title>God Bless the Band</title><pubDate>2024-03-24 10:25:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/god-bless-the-band</link><description>5 friends from Middleton</description></item><item><title>Government Putting Youth on the Shelf</title><pubDate>2024-03-21 20:13:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/government-putting-youth-on-the-shelf</link><description>The most important British song.</description></item><item><title>The Archdukes Turn 20</title><pubDate>2024-02-10 10:48:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-archdukes-turn-20</link><description>I wonder who this is about…</description></item><item><title>I don’t get it</title><pubDate>2024-02-07 05:34:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/i-don-t-get-it</link><description>My take on the camping situation</description></item><item><title>I Don&#039;t Care</title><pubDate>2024-01-07 12:39:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/i-don-t-care</link><description>Why the Charts has lost it&#039;s relevance</description></item><item><title>The Beyond the Grooves Awards: 2023</title><pubDate>2023-12-30 21:40:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-beyond-the-grooves-awards-2023</link><description>Forget the Brits, the Ivor Novellos and even the Grammy’s. This is the award everyone wants to win.</description></item><item><title>Christmas Wrap Up</title><pubDate>2023-12-24 10:55:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/christmas-wrap-up</link><description>Beyond the Grooves does Christmas</description></item><item><title>2023</title><pubDate>2023-12-17 19:04:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/2023</link><description>A yearly round up x</description></item><item><title>We All Face the Same Way</title><pubDate>2023-12-10 14:31:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/you-made-me-feel-like-the-one</link><description>Is anyone going anywhere?</description></item><item><title>Beyond the Grooves. Biggest 10 Moments of 2023</title><pubDate>2023-11-16 19:20:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/beyond-the-grooves-top-10-moments-of-2023</link><description>Legends, Lawsuits, Live Classics
2023…</description></item><item><title>Oh Manchester So Much to Answer for!</title><pubDate>2023-11-10 18:46:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/oh-manchester-so-much-to-answer-for</link><description>Statistically, there are more rockstars per capita of population from Manchester than any other city in the world. Let’s make some more.</description></item><item><title>Over There, There&#039;s Friends of Mine</title><pubDate>2023-09-17 11:01:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/glastonbury-moments-1</link><description>Remember when you used to be a rascal</description></item><item><title>By way of  Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada</title><pubDate>2023-09-02 11:04:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/by-way-of-fabulous-las-vegas-nevada</link><description>I wonder who this post is about…</description></item><item><title>Chasing the Sun</title><pubDate>2023-08-20 10:58:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/chasing-the-sun</link><description>A Supersonic Story</description></item><item><title>The Beatles Nearly Make it Home</title><pubDate>2023-07-27 18:51:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/the-beatles-nearly-make-it-home</link><description>Graveyards, Submarines, Red Gates, Barbershops. The Beatles Lost album</description></item><item><title>Let’s Take A Little Trip</title><pubDate>2023-06-29 14:01:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/let-s-take-a-little-trip</link><description>Amsterdam (A)</description></item><item><title>Library Pictures: Beyond The Grooves Best Music Books</title><pubDate>2023-06-17 16:44:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/library-pictures-beyond-the-grooves-best-music-books</link><description>Here&#039;s Where the Story Ends</description></item><item><title>Oh! My Hometown One</title><pubDate>2023-06-10 14:36:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/oh-my-hometown-one</link><description>It&#039;s High Green Via Hilsborough please</description></item><item><title>Arctic Monkeys take &#039;The Car&#039; for a Spin</title><pubDate>2023-06-04 11:34:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/his-way-or-no-way-1</link><description>Arctic Monkey&#039;s hit Manchester</description></item><item><title>Manchester: A City, United</title><pubDate>2023-05-27 14:41:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/manchester-a-city-united</link><description>This is Manchester we do things differently here</description></item><item><title>You either make money, or you make history</title><pubDate>2023-04-24 18:39:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/you-either-make-money-or-you-make-history</link><description>This is Manchester we do things differently here</description></item><item><title>Why?</title><pubDate>2023-02-18 14:55:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/blog/why</link><description>Why Why Why?</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Foals Songs</title><pubDate>2026-02-07 15:08:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-foals-songs</link><description>My favourite songs by Foals</description></item><item><title>Top 10 The Jam Songs</title><pubDate>2026-02-06 20:12:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-the-jam-songs</link><description>My favourite songs by The Jam</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Harry Styles Songs</title><pubDate>2026-02-06 18:26:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-harry-styles-songs</link><description>My favourite Harry Styles songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Peace Songs</title><pubDate>2026-01-17 16:02:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-peace-songs</link><description>My favourite Peace songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 The Verve Songs</title><pubDate>2026-01-17 14:40:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-the-verve-songs</link><description>My favourite songs by The Verve.</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Catfish &amp; the Bottlemen Songs</title><pubDate>2026-01-03 20:50:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-catfish-the-bottlemen-songs</link><description>My favourite Catfish &amp; the Bottlemen songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Blossoms Songs</title><pubDate>2025-12-24 16:38:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-blossoms-songs</link><description>My favourite Blossoms songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Noel Gallagher&#039;s High Flying Birds Songs</title><pubDate>2025-12-21 12:02:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-noel-gallagher-s-high-flying-birds-songs</link><description>My favourite NGHFB songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 David Bowie Songs</title><pubDate>2025-11-01 13:25:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-david-bowie-songs</link><description>My favourite David Bowie songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Courteeners Songs</title><pubDate>2025-09-19 19:23:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-courteeners-songs</link><description>My favourite Courteeners songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Wolf Alice Songs</title><pubDate>2025-09-16 13:29:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-wolf-alice-songs</link><description>My favourite Wolf Alice songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Sam Fender Songs</title><pubDate>2025-09-13 14:14:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-sam-fender-songs</link><description>My favourite Sam Fender songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Fleetwood Mac Songs</title><pubDate>2025-09-09 18:41:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-fleetwood-mac-songs</link><description>My favourite Fleetwood Mac songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 The Smiths Songs</title><pubDate>2025-09-08 13:33:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-the-smiths-songs</link><description>My favourite songs by The Smiths</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Stone Roses Songs</title><pubDate>2025-09-07 13:52:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-stone-roses-songs</link><description>My favourite Stone Roses songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 New Order Songs</title><pubDate>2025-09-06 13:17:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-new-order-songs</link><description>My favourite New Order songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Peter Gabriel Songs</title><pubDate>2025-09-04 16:21:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-peter-gabriel-songs</link><description>My favourite Peter Gabriel songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 The Beatles Songs</title><pubDate>2025-08-31 10:41:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-the-beatles-songs</link><description>The Beatles best songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Stereophonics Songs</title><pubDate>2025-08-24 11:32:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-stereophonics-songs</link><description>The best songs by Stereophonics</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Blur Songs</title><pubDate>2025-08-23 12:40:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-blur-songs</link><description>The best songs by Blur</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Fontaines D.C. Songs</title><pubDate>2025-08-19 18:35:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-fontaines-dc-songs</link><description>The best songs by Fontaines D.C.</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Arctic Monkeys Songs</title><pubDate>2025-08-15 18:36:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-arctic-monkeys-songs</link><description>My favourite Arctic Monkeys songs</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Oasis Songs</title><pubDate>2025-08-14 14:46:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-oasis-songs</link><description>The best songs by Oasis</description></item><item><title>Top 10 The 1975 Songs</title><pubDate>2025-08-03 13:55:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-the-1975-songs</link><description>The best songs by The 1975</description></item><item><title>Top 10 Tame Impala Songs</title><pubDate>2025-08-03 10:00:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/top-10-s/top-10-tame-impala-songs</link><description>Kevin Parker&#039;s best songs</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: George Harrison: All Things Must Pass</title><pubDate>2026-02-21 21:19:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-george-harrison-all-things-must-pass</link><description>Sunrise doesn&#039;t last, all morning
A cloudburst doesn&#039;t last all day
Seems my love is up and has left you with no warning
It&#039;s not always gonna be this gray</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Happy Mondays: Wrote For Luck</title><pubDate>2026-02-20 12:30:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-happy-mondays-wrote-for-luck</link><description>And I wrote for luck and they sent me you
And I sent for juice, you give me poison
I order a line, you form a queue</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Declan McKenna: Brazil</title><pubDate>2026-02-19 19:17:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-declan-mckenna-brazil</link><description>I heard he lives down a river somewhere
With six cars and a grizzly bear</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Black Country New Road: Besties</title><pubDate>2026-02-19 18:25:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-black-country-new-road-besties</link><description>And what about you?
In fact, don&#039;t answer that
Wouldn&#039;t want it any other way
&#039;Cause this feels, bestie girl</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Jeff Buckley: Grace</title><pubDate>2026-02-19 13:37:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-jeff-buckley-grace</link><description>There&#039;s the moon asking to stay
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Billy Joel: Goodnight Saigon</title><pubDate>2026-02-18 15:19:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-billy-joel-goodnight-saigon</link><description>We said we&#039;d all go down together
Yes, we would all go down together</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Harry Styles: Aperture</title><pubDate>2026-01-25 19:10:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-harry-styles-aperture</link><description>We belong together.</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Wolf Alice: The Last Man on Earth</title><pubDate>2026-01-11 18:39:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-wolf-alice-the-last-man-on-earth</link><description>Do you wait for your dancing lessons, to be sent from God?</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Radiohead: Let Down</title><pubDate>2026-01-11 13:46:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-radiohead-let-down</link><description>The emptiest of feelings, disappointed people
Clinging onto bottles
When it comes, it&#039;s so, so disappointing
Let down and hanging around</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: U2: Out Of Control</title><pubDate>2026-01-11 13:15:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-u2-out-of-control</link><description>How was the feeling? It was out of control
I had the opinion, it was out of control</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Viola Beach: Boys that Sing</title><pubDate>2026-01-03 15:12:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-viola-beach-boys-that-sing</link><description>And she said that together we could take on the world</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The Strokes: Ize of the World</title><pubDate>2026-01-03 13:20:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-strokes-ize-of-the-world</link><description>No time to apologise, fury to tranquilise / Weapons to synchronise, cities to vapori</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Peace: From Under Liquid Glass</title><pubDate>2026-01-03 11:30:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-peace-from-under-liquid-glass</link><description>I&#039;m scared to face the music alone
In my big fuckin&#039; mental head</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Gorillaz: Dirty Harry</title><pubDate>2026-01-01 15:01:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/gorillaz-dirty-harry-meaning</link><description>I need a gun to keep myself among
The poor people who are burning in the sun
But they ain&#039;t got a chance
They ain&#039;t got a chance</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: Dead in the Water</title><pubDate>2026-01-01 13:43:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-noel-gallagher-s-high-flying-birds-dead-in-the-water</link><description>So don&#039;t walk away love
There&#039;s never enough that could make me crash on the broken glass
Let the storm rage
I&#039;d die on the waves
But I will not rest while love lies dead in the water</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The 1975: About You</title><pubDate>2026-01-01 13:06:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-1975-about-you</link><description>And I&#039;ll miss you on a train, I&#039;ll miss you in the mornin&#039;
I never know what to think about
I think about you (Don&#039;t let go)
About you (Don&#039;t let go)</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Dave: Black</title><pubDate>2026-01-01 11:32:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/dave-black-brit-awards</link><description>Black is like the sweetest fuckin&#039; flavour, here&#039;s a taste of it
But black is all I know, there ain&#039;t a thing that I would change in it</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The Stranglers: Golden Brown</title><pubDate>2025-12-14 11:38:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-stranglers-golden-brown</link><description>Golden brown, texture like sun
Lays me down, with my mind she runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown with golden brown</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: CMAT: EURO-COUNTRY</title><pubDate>2025-11-15 12:10:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-cmat-euro-country</link><description>My Euro, Euro, Euro Country
(The mam and the dad)
My Euro, Euro, Euro Country
(The present is past)</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Tame Impala: Let It Happen</title><pubDate>2025-11-11 16:47:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-tame-impala-let-it-happen</link><description>It&#039;s always around me, all this noise
But not nearly as loud as the voice saying
&quot;Let it happen, let it happen&quot;</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: U2: One</title><pubDate>2025-11-11 14:43:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-u2-one</link><description>We&#039;re one but we&#039;re not the same
Well we hurt each other then we do it again</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: John Denver: Leaving on a Jet Plane</title><pubDate>2025-11-11 12:41:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-john-denver-leaving-on-a-jet-plane</link><description>Cause I&#039;m leavin&#039; on a jet plane  
Don&#039;t know when I&#039;ll be back again</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The Stone Roses: She Bangs the Drums</title><pubDate>2025-11-09 17:48:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-stone-roses-she-bangs-the-drums</link><description>The past was yours 
But the futures mine</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Oasis: Live Forever</title><pubDate>2025-11-09 15:15:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-oasis-live-forever</link><description>Maybe you&#039;re the same as me
We see things they&#039;ll never see
You and I are gonna live forever</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The Beatles: Now and Then</title><pubDate>2025-10-25 21:29:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-beatles-now-and-then</link><description>The story of the final Beatles song</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Black Sabbath: War Pigs</title><pubDate>2025-07-27 13:35:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-black-sabbath-war-pigs</link><description>Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that all to the poor, yeah</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Stereophonics: Pick a Part That&#039;s New</title><pubDate>2025-07-05 18:04:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-stereophonics-pick-a-part-that-s-new</link><description>You can do all the things that you like to do
All around, underground, pick a part that&#039;s new
You can do all the things that you like to do
All around, upside down, pick a part that&#039;s new</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Wunderhorse: Arizona</title><pubDate>2025-07-05 17:35:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-wunderhorse-arizona</link><description>And when it rains in Arizona
And the desert flowers bloom
There&#039;s a wind that blows to Boston
And it sings the saddest tune</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Bob Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone</title><pubDate>2025-06-25 18:46:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone</link><description>How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Peace: World Pleasure</title><pubDate>2025-06-23 19:40:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-peace-world-pleasure</link><description>Please don&#039;t send me off to war
That&#039;s not what my body&#039;s for</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Wolf Alice: Bloom Baby Bloom</title><pubDate>2025-06-22 12:56:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-wolf-alice-bloom-baby-bloom</link><description>But I&#039;ll bloom, baby, bloom
Watch me, yeah, you&#039;ll see just what I&#039;m worth</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Echo &amp; the Bunnymen: The Killing Moon</title><pubDate>2025-06-21 15:33:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-echo-the-bunnymen-the-killing-moon</link><description>Fate up against your will / Through the thick and thin / He will wait until / You give yourself to him</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: 808 State: Pacific State</title><pubDate>2025-05-04 16:19:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-808-state-pacific-state</link><description>How Manchester made England dance.</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The Libertines: Can&#039;t Stand Me Now</title><pubDate>2025-05-04 13:35:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-libertines-can-t-stand-me-now</link><description>An ending fitting for the start
You twist and tore our love apart</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Bloc Party: This Modern Love</title><pubDate>2025-05-03 12:55:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-bloc-party-this-modern-love</link><description>And you told me you wanted to eat up my sadness
Well, jump right on shorty, you can gorge away</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Electronic: Getting Away With It</title><pubDate>2025-05-02 19:59:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-story-electronic-getting-away-with-it</link><description>I&#039;ve been walking in the rain just to get wet on purpose</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc</title><pubDate>2025-05-02 19:40:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-gorillaz-feel-good-inc</link><description>Windmill, windmill for the land
Turn forever, hand in hand</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Stereophonics: Mr Writter</title><pubDate>2025-04-29 20:12:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-stereophonics-mr-writter</link><description>Mr Writer, why don&#039;t you tell it like it is?
Why don&#039;t you tell it like it really is
Why don&#039;t you tell it how it really is
Before you go on home?</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Oasis: Don&#039;t Look Back in Anger</title><pubDate>2025-04-29 19:25:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-oasis-don-t-look-back-in-anger</link><description>So I start a revolution from my bed
&#039;Cause you said the brains I had went to my head</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Bastille: Pompeii</title><pubDate>2025-04-28 19:19:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-bastille-pompeii</link><description>And the walls kept tumbling down
In the city that we love
Grey clouds roll over the hills
Bringing darkness from above</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Robbie Williams: Come Undone</title><pubDate>2025-04-27 18:56:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-robbie-williams-come-undone</link><description>They&#039;re selling razor blades and mirrors in the street
I pray that when I&#039;m coming down you&#039;ll be asleep
If I ever hurt you your revenge will be so sweet
Because I&#039;m scum
And I&#039;m your son</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Klaxons: Golden Skans</title><pubDate>2025-04-27 18:13:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-klaxons-golden-skans</link><description>Light touched my hands in a dream of golden skans
From now on, you can forget all future plans</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The Rolling Stones: Street Fighting Man</title><pubDate>2025-04-27 13:27:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-rolling-stones-street-fighting-man</link><description>Well, now what can a poor boy do
Except to sing for a rock and roll band?
&#039;Cause in sleepy London Town
There&#039;s just no place for street fighting man, no</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer</title><pubDate>2025-04-27 13:04:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-peter-gabriel-sledgehammer</link><description>You could have a steam train
If you&#039;d just lay down your tracks
You could have an aeroplane flying
If you bring your blue sky back</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Blur: Beetlebum</title><pubDate>2025-04-26 19:51:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-blur-beetlebum</link><description>Beetlebum
What you done?
She&#039;s a gun
Now what you done, beetlebum?</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Young Fathers: Sink or Swim</title><pubDate>2025-04-26 19:34:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-young-fathers-sink-or-swim</link><description>Oh, baby, won&#039;t you let me in?
My mind is saying sink or swim</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Harry Styles: As it Was</title><pubDate>2025-04-26 15:37:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-harry-styles-as-it-was</link><description>Come on, Harry, we wanna say goodnight to you</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Blondie: Dreaming</title><pubDate>2025-04-20 18:24:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-blondie-dreaming</link><description>Just to have some dreaming
Dreaming is free</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Arctic Monkeys: Four Out of Five</title><pubDate>2025-03-30 20:35:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-arctic-monkeys-four-out-of-five</link><description>I put a taqueria on the roof, it was well reviewed
Four stars out of five
And that&#039;s unheard of</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: New Order: Age of Consent</title><pubDate>2025-03-30 19:47:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-new-order-age-of-consent</link><description>And I&#039;m not the kind that likes to tell you
Just what I want to do
I&#039;m not the kind that needs to tell you</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Florence &amp; the Machine: Queen of Peace</title><pubDate>2025-03-30 19:07:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-florence-the-machine-queen-of-peace</link><description>Oh, the queen of peace
Always does her best to please</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Tame Impala: Why Won&#039;t They Talk to Me?</title><pubDate>2025-03-30 18:36:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-tame-impala-why-won-t-they-talk-to-me</link><description>Destined to be, lonely old me
Whoops-a-daisy, I thought I was happy, oh</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: AKA.. What a Life!</title><pubDate>2025-03-30 18:06:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-noel-gallagher-s-high-flying-birds-aka-what-a-life</link><description>Keep on chasing down that rainbow
You&#039;ll never know what you might find</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Circa Wave: T-Shirt Weather</title><pubDate>2025-03-30 13:33:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-circa-wave-t-shirt-weather</link><description>I remember T-shirt weather
I remember some days
We were singing our lungs out
in the backseat together</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Elastica: Never Here</title><pubDate>2025-03-30 12:37:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-elastica-never-here</link><description>Now I&#039;ve sold all your records
&#039;Cause they give me the fear
Funny how it seems to me now
That you were never here</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Talking Heads: Life During Wartime</title><pubDate>2025-03-30 12:26:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-talking-heads-life-during-wartime</link><description>This ain&#039;t no party, this ain&#039;t no disco
This ain&#039;t no fooling around
No time for dancing, or lovey dovey
I ain&#039;t got time for that now</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Prince: Raspberry Beret</title><pubDate>2025-03-30 12:11:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-prince-raspberry-beret</link><description>She wore a raspberry beret
The kind you find in a secondhand store.
And if it was warm, she wouldn’t wear much more.</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The 1975: I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)</title><pubDate>2025-03-29 21:29:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-1975-i-always-wanna-die-sometimes</link><description>You win, you lose, you sing the blues
There&#039;s no point in buying concrete shoes
I refuse</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The Wombats: Greek Tragedy</title><pubDate>2025-03-29 20:51:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-wombats-greek-tragedy</link><description>So free up the cheaper seats
Here comes a Greek Tragedy</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Wunderhorse: Teal</title><pubDate>2025-03-29 20:31:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-wunderhorse-teal</link><description>You gotta gift man, go and be something
If I was in your shoes, I would be jumping</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Kneecap: Parful</title><pubDate>2025-03-25 19:42:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-kneecap-parful</link><description>It&#039;s there 24 hours a day, the thing is that it divides the two communities, but every
Saturday night hundreds of people go out down town just go out clubbin</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Chappell Roan: Pink Pony Club</title><pubDate>2025-03-25 19:17:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-chappell-roan-pink-pony-club</link><description>Oh mama, I&#039;m just having fun
On the stage in my heels
It&#039;s where I belong down at the
Pink Pony Club</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Paul Weller: Wild Wood</title><pubDate>2025-03-22 19:09:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-paul-weller-wild-wood</link><description>Day by day your world fades away
Waiting to feel - all the dreams that say
Golden rain will bring you riches</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Lily Allen: The Fear</title><pubDate>2025-03-14 21:05:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-lily-allen-the-fear</link><description>I&#039;m on the right track, yeah we&#039;re onto a winner</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The Verve: Slide Away</title><pubDate>2025-02-23 13:43:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-verve-slide-away</link><description>You always do that
Something I&#039;m not quite sure of
But just for today
Let go and slide away</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Royal Blood: Typhoons</title><pubDate>2025-02-09 18:31:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-royal-blood-typhoons</link><description>Because all these chemicals dancing through my veins, they don’t kill the cause – they just numb the pain</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Peace: Lovesick</title><pubDate>2025-02-09 16:55:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-peace-lovesick</link><description>You don&#039;t need to drink or eat, stay awake or go to sleep
Trust me, baby, I&#039;m the creep, and I&#039;m lovesick with you
And I&#039;m lovesick with you</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Jamie T: Zombie</title><pubDate>2025-02-09 16:30:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-jamie-t-zombie</link><description>Cause I&#039;m a sad sad post teen
Caught up in the love machine
No dream, come clean
Walking like a zombie, like a zombie</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Liam Gallagher: One of Us</title><pubDate>2025-02-09 12:50:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-liam-gallagher-one-of-us</link><description>Act like you don&#039;t remember
You said we&#039;d live forever
Who do you think you&#039;re kidding?
You were only one of us</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Declan Mckenna: British Bombs</title><pubDate>2025-02-09 11:55:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-declan-mckenna-british-bombs</link><description>“It&#039;s a good old fashioned landslide
Killing with your hands tied</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Gorillaz: Skinny Ape</title><pubDate>2025-02-09 11:30:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-gorillaz-skinny-ape</link><description>I can balance on the highest tree
You can only see outlines of me
I can disappear, or lighten your day
Imitate and say
I&#039;m a skinny little ape</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Inhaler: It Won&#039;t Always Be Like This</title><pubDate>2025-02-09 11:19:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-inhaler-it-won-t-always-be-like-this</link><description>Play me like a record, baby
Spin me around, turn me upside down</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Babyshambles: Albion</title><pubDate>2025-02-08 18:59:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-babyshambles-albion</link><description>Down in Albion
They&#039;re black and blue
But we don&#039;t talk about that
Are you from &#039;round here?
How do you do?</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Foals: Looking High</title><pubDate>2025-02-08 12:04:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-foals-looking-high</link><description>Looking high, looking low
For where all our friends used to go</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Chumbawamba: Tubthumping</title><pubDate>2025-02-08 11:13:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-chumbawamba-tubthumping</link><description>We&#039;ll be singin&#039;
When we&#039;re winnin</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Noel Gallagher&#039;s High Flying Birds: Holy Mountain</title><pubDate>2025-02-01 15:59:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-noel-gallagher-s-high-flying-birds-holy-mountain</link><description>You can blow my mind if you&#039;re that way inclined</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Queen: Somebody to Love</title><pubDate>2025-02-01 12:45:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-queen-somebody-to-love</link><description>Can anybody find me &#039;Somebody to Love&#039;</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Wolf Alice: Don&#039;t Delete the Kisses</title><pubDate>2025-02-01 12:10:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-wolf-alice-don-t-delete-the-kisses</link><description>What if it&#039;s not meant for me?
Love</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Oasis D&#039;You Know What I Mean</title><pubDate>2024-12-28 12:02:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-oasis-d-you-know-what-i-mean</link><description>All my people right here right now,</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Wham: Last Christmas</title><pubDate>2024-12-24 11:21:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-wham-last-christmas</link><description>Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it away</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The Pogues: Fairytale of New York</title><pubDate>2024-12-15 11:33:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-pogues-fairytale-of-new-york</link><description>The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing Galway Bay
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Band Aid: Do They Know It&#039;s Christmas?</title><pubDate>2024-12-15 11:11:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-band-aid-do-they-know-it-s-christmas</link><description>How Bob Geldof and Midge Ure united pop to create one of the most significant Number Ones ever</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The Cure: Pictures of You</title><pubDate>2024-12-08 18:20:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-cure-pictures-of-you</link><description>Looking so long for the words to be true
But always just breaking apart
My pictures of you</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Blur: The Universal</title><pubDate>2024-12-08 18:00:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-blur-the-universal</link><description>This is the next century
Where the universal&#039;s free
You can find it anywhere
Yes, the future has been sold</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Underworld: Born Slippy</title><pubDate>2024-12-08 13:35:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-underworld-born-slippy</link><description>Drive boy, dive boy
Dirty numb angel boy</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Jungle: Busy Earnin</title><pubDate>2024-12-08 13:16:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-jungle-busy-earnin</link><description>You think that all your time is used
Too busy earnin&#039;
You can&#039;t get enough</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Charli XCX: Apple</title><pubDate>2024-11-28 13:04:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-charli-xcx-apple</link><description>I guess the apple don&#039;t fall far from the tree</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The Police: Every Breath You Take</title><pubDate>2024-11-16 15:07:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-police-every-breath-you-take</link><description>Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I&#039;ll be watching you</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Bob Marley: Redemption Song</title><pubDate>2024-11-16 14:52:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-bob-marley-redemption-song</link><description>Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Sam Fender: People Watching</title><pubDate>2024-11-15 11:47:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-sam-fender-people-watching</link><description>Oh, I can&#039;t stop runnin&#039;
I see the whole town fall
I people-watch on the way back home</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart</title><pubDate>2024-11-14 15:00:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-joy-division-love-will-tear-us-apart</link><description>When routine bites hard and ambitions are low
And resentment rides high, but emotions won&#039;t grow
And we&#039;re changing our ways, taking different roads</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Sex Pistols: God Save the Queen</title><pubDate>2024-11-14 14:48:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-sex-pistols-god-save-the-queen</link><description>No future, no future, no future for you!</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: R.E.M: Orange Crush</title><pubDate>2024-11-14 14:23:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-rem-orange-crush</link><description>I&#039;ve got my spine, I&#039;ve got my orange crush</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Kings of Leon: Fans</title><pubDate>2024-11-14 14:11:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-kings-of-leon-fans</link><description>&#039;Cause England swings and they sure love the tales I bring
And those rainy days they ain&#039;t so bad when you&#039;re the King</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The 1975: Love It If We Made It</title><pubDate>2024-10-29 18:45:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-1975-love-it-if-we-made-it</link><description>Jesus save us, modernity has failed us</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Blondie: Heart of Glass</title><pubDate>2024-10-29 18:29:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-blondie-heart-of-glass</link><description>Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The Strokes: Someday</title><pubDate>2024-10-26 11:21:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-strokes-someday</link><description>In many ways, still miss the good old days</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: The Killers: Mr Brightside</title><pubDate>2024-10-26 11:05:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-the-killers-mr-brightside</link><description>But it&#039;s just the price I pay, destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes, &#039;cause I&#039;m Mr. Brightside</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Bloc Party: Hunting for Witches</title><pubDate>2024-10-26 10:46:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-bloc-party-hunting-for-witches</link><description>The Daily Mail says the enemy is among us</description></item><item><title>Song Stories: Gerry Cinnamon: Diamonds in the Mud</title><pubDate>2024-10-24 13:23:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/song-stories/song-stories-gerry-cinnamon-diamonds-in-the-mud</link><description>Not the best place, but there&#039;s diamonds in the mud</description></item><item><title>In Their Element</title><pubDate>2025-12-20 11:40:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/in-their-element</link><description>The Clause lap up the O2 Academy with ease. Where do the boys from Brum go next?</description></item><item><title>Always Where They Were Meant to Be</title><pubDate>2025-11-30 17:58:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/always-where-they-were-meant-to-be</link><description>Wolf Alice in Birmingham</description></item><item><title>The Best There Was, The Best There Is And The Best There Ever Will Be</title><pubDate>2025-07-21 10:32:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/the-best-there-was-the-best-there-is-and-the-best-there-ever-will-be</link><description>My review on the last night of Oasis at Heaton Park</description></item><item><title>Make It On Your Own</title><pubDate>2025-06-17 18:28:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/make-it-on-your-own</link><description>Stereophonics &amp; Blossoms, in Huddersfield</description></item><item><title>It’s Been Five Years</title><pubDate>2024-12-14 15:08:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/it-s-been-five-years</link><description>Good evening Manchester</description></item><item><title>God Bless the Band</title><pubDate>2024-11-24 10:32:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/god-bless-the-band</link><description>Courteeners hit the big time in Birmingham</description></item><item><title>Their Kingdom Reigns</title><pubDate>2024-11-03 11:35:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/their-kingdom-reigns</link><description>Good Evening Birmingham, We are Blossoms from Stockport</description></item><item><title>8ft Tall</title><pubDate>2024-08-26 15:42:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/8ft-tall</link><description>Good evening Manchester, we are Blossoms from Stockport</description></item><item><title>Underneath the Castle Skies</title><pubDate>2024-07-22 18:32:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/underneath-the-castle-skies</link><description>Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds in a castle?</description></item><item><title>This Modern Love</title><pubDate>2024-06-30 20:27:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/this-modern-love</link><description>I made a vow, to carry you home</description></item><item><title>Manchester Vibes in the Area</title><pubDate>2024-06-30 19:48:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/manchester-vibes-in-the-area</link><description>Bring it on Down, Bring it On Down For Me</description></item><item><title>It’s Indie Rock n Roll For Me</title><pubDate>2024-06-23 12:27:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/it-s-indie-rock-n-roll-for-me</link><description>‘The stars are blazing like Rebel Diamonds cut out of the sun’</description></item><item><title>On the Western Approach</title><pubDate>2024-03-17 10:58:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/on-the-western-approach</link><description>What’s that on the Western Approach. 
6 Scousers 
17 indie bangers
600 adoring fans.</description></item><item><title>Part of the Band</title><pubDate>2024-02-22 18:36:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/part-of-the-band</link><description>Ladies and Gentleman. You are watching. The 1975. Still At Their Very Best</description></item><item><title>Just in Time For Christmas</title><pubDate>2023-12-16 10:23:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/just-in-time-for-christmas</link><description>Noel hits Birmingham just in time for Christmas!</description></item><item><title>From the Belly of the Jungle to the Bottom of the Sea</title><pubDate>2023-11-05 14:03:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/from-the-belly-of-the-jungle-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea</link><description>You weren’t ‘Lost On Me’ Peace!</description></item><item><title>Deck the Halls</title><pubDate>2023-10-28 00:00:00</pubDate><link>https://www.beyond-the-grooves.co.uk/concert-reviews/how-to-make-extra-money</link><description>Royal Blood hit The Halls</description></item></channel></rss>