Reprise

In our Reprise section we pay homage to those artists and bands who did not achieve the success in their careers befitting of their talent. Whether dogged with bad luck, drug addiction, personal disputes or dubious decision making they nonetheless, to a (wo)man, made some great music. We hope that if you've liked some of the new music we have found for you, you may like the music featured here too.

• Fela Kuti
  Fela Kuti's AIDS related death in 1997 left behind one of the funkiest and most life-affirming of musical legacies. How a man with such an unbelievable life-story can produce music of such quality and still remain unknown to a great many music-lovers of this planet remains a mystery and a situation that must surely be rectified.
• John Mayall
  Dubbed the "Godfather of British Blues" John Mayall helped popularise blues-based music around the world and, along the way, launched the careers of some of the greatest names in rock 'n' roll.
• Out Hud
  A quintet that sounded like an In Sides-inspired Orbital, Out Hud, to the delight of even the most Stalinist of bleep-freaks, dealt in low-down, chugging baselines chunkier than a Chris Moyles' sandwich.
• Ride
  Shoe-obsession aside these unassuming chaps from Oxford garnered curtained-haired fans aplenty in the years pre-Brit pop with their melding of delicate distortion and finely-honed psychedelia. Who the fuck is Andy Bell? Find out here my friend.
• Love
  Arthur Lee and his merry band of mad-heads effortlessly combined forward thinking psychedelia with the understated menace of The Rolling Stones, the social commentary of Bob Dylan and the proto-punk of The Stooges.
• Son House
  As a major influence to both Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, Son House’s pivotal role in the birth of the Delta Blues and history of popular music is one that few can match.
• Toots and the Maytals
  Toots and the Maytals are one of the Caribbean’s most enduring and dynamic bands, instrumental to the development of ska, rock-steady and reggae they remain giants of Jamaican music.
• Teenage Fan Club
  Over a period of 15 years, Teenage Fanclub have, without fuss or tabloid shenanigan, consistently made records to usher sunshine through the clouds and put a smile on your face.
• Pavement
  Pavement, in similar fashion to The Fall or The Velvet Underground, infuriated as much as they inspired. Producing lo fi pop at its best, the descent in to incoherent wackiness was never far away.
• The La's
  There is no crime greater than the squandering of talent so the proverb goes, in which case The La’s have committed a list of atrocities to give Genghis Khan a run for his money.
• Tarkan
  At 34, Tarkan is now a global pop superstar boasting six multi-million selling albums as well as numerous globe-trotting stadium tours. So why isn’t he a household name here?
• The Beta Band
  A super tight group of highly talented multi-instrumentalists; dizzyingly good live to boot, The Beta Band's charming unpredictability and subsequent split has left a gap in British music that has yet to be filled.