Magnet Magazine — Happy birthday Ian Broudie (Lightning Seeds, Echo & The Bunnymen, Coral). Pure and simple. Read our 120 Reasons To Live on the Lightning Seeds: The post Happy Birthday Ian Broudie (Lightning Seeds, Echo & The Bunnymen, Coral) appeared first on Magnet... more info

Popdose — Ian Broudie, once again, to the rescue. more info

Stereogum — Last night, Liam Gallagher and Roger Daltrey led a one-off supergroup performance of the Who’s “My Generation” on British TV show TGI Friday, which revived for a two-hour special to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The group was rounded out by t... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — 15 years after Chris Evans' anarchic chat show TFI Friday ended, it's back for one night only on June 12th. Yesterday Evans revealed the line-up and it includes Brit-poppers for all those viewers nostalgic for the series' late 90s heyday: old rivals ... more info

Guardian Music — Shepherd's Bush Empire, LondonAfter a couple of seasons exhausting his festival circuit currency, Ian Broudie's reformed Lightning Seeds were last seen playing subdued versions of Three Lions and Pure in seated concert rooms. This didn't suit Broudie... more info

Guardian Music — The Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie ruefully recalls how he turned down the offer of a Beatles and Floyd recording deskWhen you're in a group, everything goes wrong all the time and you get used to guitars breaking, microphones not working and having to... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Episode from a BBC series using family trees compiled by music journalist Pete Frame to explore the dramas that lie behind some of the best-known bands. Fifteen years after the original Mersey beat sound, Liverpool again became the breeding ground f... more info

The Vinyl Villain — I've lifted the following info straight from the official Lightning Seeds website:-In 1983, Ian Broudie teamed up with ex-Wild Swans singer Paul Simpson to form the duo Care. Care signed to the Arista label and released three singles, My Boyish Days... more info

The Vinyl Villain — After Pete Wylie failed to give WEA Records a single that was as epic and barnstorming as the 1982 hit The Story Of The Blues, the label dropped him and his band.Not long afterwards, having penned a deal with Beggars Banquet, this single took The Mig... more info

Gigwise — Hlams Tom Hicks and George Gillett more info