During the week that the sixties icon Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull passed on, aged 78, Iona felt it appropriate to pick one of her...

Next up for Iona’s Song of the Week takes us back to June 1979 when a Salford band released their debut album. Their second and final...

Next up for Song of the Week is an 8-minute and 52-second gem from an album that was released 50 years ago on 20 January 1975, and I was...

Looking back 1977 was very much my year. This was the year that Punk stormed trough the door of my comfortable, cozy music zone. The...

2025 has arrived, and with it comes a plethera of songs. Some new, some familiar, some old, but, hopefully, all enjoyable! We shall...

And so, here we are at the end of Iona’s Song of the Week 2024; it has been a pleasure to share some of the music that ‘“floats our boat”...

This week’s choice inevitably chose itself! This is the iTunes No 1 this week and is an update of the classic 1974 Chinn and Chapman...

Story of My Life  is our Song of the Week this week, and it comes from the American punk rock band Social Distortion  who were formed in...

And so, as the clock ticks down on Iona’s Song of the Week 2024, we come to week number 23 of Part Two (or 49 in total)! Our choice this...

Wow, how did that happen? This week’s song of the week is No 48 of 2024; there are only four more to choose! It has also, bizarrely,...

This week’s song is by Cary Ann Hearst, half of a band called Shovels and Rope  who we first encountered about ten years ago. The band is...

As this week started on November 11th, Rememberance Day here in the UK, we have chosen, as Iona’s Song of the Week, a song written in...

This week, for our Song of the Week, we go back forty-seven years to 1977. The song is the title track from the debut album by the...