By the end of the decade I would be wearing structureless Commes des Garcons jackets while drinking bottled Mexican lager from the...

London needs to punch up both culturally and civically argues Dan Synge This isn’t just a case of the post-holiday blues, but returning...

In a new coming of age memoir, Dan Synge recalls the excitement of starting a band aged 15 To most people, a six-stringed electric guitar...

How to spend a weekend in Europe’s most enlightened capital. By Dan Synge Of all the 48 European capitals, Vienna can rightly claim to be...

In a new coming of age memoir Dan Synge explains how a generation has been unable to shake off their pop past I confess. I’m a man in my...

It's time to give the often derided New Wave movement of the late-1970s another look says teen survivor Dan Synge in his new music themed...

Despite its image as an innovative decade, the 1970’s were a retrospective drag Throughout my time as a music fan, a curiosity about the...

In early 1974 my dad briefly got into the habit of taking me and my teenage sister to the local record shop on Saturday afternoons where,...

It’s the evening of Saturday 6th April, 1974. Mum and dad have gone out for the evening leaving me alone with the babysitter, a retired...

A Cartier-Bresson moment is never far away in the French capital Let loose on the streets of Paris armed with just a simple smartphone,...

Films set in recording studios are a drag, but let's make an exception for the Fab Four There has been enough written about The Beatles...

With live music back on the cultural agenda, we look at the people and places that rocked the capital. Part two: The Outsiders To the...

With live music back on the cultural agenda, we look at the people and the places that rocked the capital. Part one: The West End A...