THE BOY WITH THE THORN BY HIS SIDE

Sorry about the terrible pun which came to me as I was putting together last Saturday's piece about The Smiths.There's loads can be said about Ben Watt - the laziest and easiest thing I can do is refer you to this wiki page.But returning somewhat to the roots of this blog, I'm going to have a wee look at his one solo album as an artist to date (and given it is now 28 years old, will probably be the only thing he ever releases under his own name).North Marine Drive is a good but not great album....

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