Welcome to Great Music Stories.

Now in our eleventh year, we celebrate the stories behind the music through audio interview format.

A small selection of a few hundred of the thousands of interviews done since 2015 are currently on the site. We do rotate the interview archive every now and then to keep things fresh.

Enjoy having a browse through the site. We hope you find one of your favourite artists here – and we hope we help signpost you to your next favourite band.

album of the month

Those Damn Crows – ‘God Shaped Hole’

For the last decade, there has been much talk about the latent promise of bands from the rising rock scene - and Those Damn Crows could well be the band from a new generation that go all the way and bag a Number 1 album.

Previous album reviews

Those Damn Crows - God Shaped Hole

Those Damn Crows – ‘God Shaped Hole’

For the last decade, there has been much talk about the latent promise of bands from the rising rock scene – and Those Damn Crows could well be the band from a new generation that go all the way and bag a Number 1 album.

Cry for Mercy - This Machine

CRY FOR MERCY – ‘THIS MACHINE’

By a distance, it’s the best album Cry For Mercy have done – and in terms of charm, conviction and chemistry, it’s one of the best UK blues-rock albums of 2025 so far.

ELLIS MANO BAND – ‘MORPH’

Cutting through the relentless stampede of new music promotion and the white noise on social media, Ellis Mano Band drop a truly classy album to take 2025 up a level.

Recent show highlights

Friday Rock Show: 16 July 2021

The first hour of the Friday rockshow, news and music from a new generation of unsigned and rising bands: Music includes: Skam, The Autumn Killers,

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The GMS book:
be part of the story!

Going into 2022, work will start on the Great Music Stories book, drawing together a definitive archive of 1,200 hour specials and more than 3,000 interview shorts. Everyone that’s been part of the GMS journey since January 2015 can be part of the story.

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