Meet the Family

Robbie is the reason this site exists. His collection is everything — vinyl, tapes, CDs, every Guinness Book of Hit Singles from 1977 onwards. Floor to ceiling, wall to wall. He doesn't own a computer, doesn't do streaming, doesn't have Spotify. His flat is a time capsule: a Panasonic TV, an old DVD player, and music. Always music.

He hasn't missed a chart show since he was old enough to know what a chart was. Saturday afternoons, Radio 1, the Top 40 countdown — still listens every week. When he's not answering the phone, nine times out of ten it's because he's got a pair of big headphones on, lost in a record. And that's when you know he's alright.

He's the one writing about the 60s, 70s, and early 80s on this site. The Merseybeat sound, the British Invasion, punk, the birth of the Top 40. All from a lifetime of collecting, reading, and listening. He doesn't type a word himself — he talks it through, we write it down. The knowledge is his, the words are his, the typing is ours.

Mark grew up in a pub with a jukebox — Barry White, Neil Diamond, Wet Wet Wet, Michael Jackson all playing through the same speakers. That's where his musical education started. His tastes evolved with each decade: yearly caravan holidays with mixtapes on the road, long drives singin' along to the radio, Sunday afternoons at his nan and grandad's listening to the chart show.

He's the one who built the website, wrote the books on Amazon, and put the app on the Apple App Store. Trying to build something for his family. His writing comes from memories — before mobile phones, when you made mix tapes for someone to say you fancied them, when music was something you had to sit and listen to from start to finish.

Georgia was born premature and grew up with chronic lung disease, which meant no travel abroad. So the family did two weeks in a caravan every year instead — and she fell in love with that life. Her dream was to become a holiday entertainer, and at 17 she got her first taste: two weeks' work experience at Parkdean's West Bay and Mullion holiday parks.

The year after, she auditioned to become a Parkdean Trouper and got in. She worked at Tummel Valley and Sundrum holiday parks in Scotland, doing live shows and performing her own singing sets. But her knees kept dislocating, and she had to quit for two MPFL surgeries. Complications meant she couldn't go back to the job she loved.

Her writing is youthful, passionate, and heartfelt. She covers the artists she grew up with — Adele, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, RAYE, Florence + the Machine. She hasn't lost her love for the stage; she just found a new way to express it.

Taylor Jay is a music graduate from LMA University in Liverpool, where he studied music and sound engineering. He's a DJ, a singer, and a musician who worked for Big Condor Records in Liverpool, gaining experience in the local indie scene and event promotion.

He's toured with The Glass Skies, a Liverpool band, and hosted podcasts. He knows the Liverpool music scene inside out — not from reading about it, but from being in it. Playing gigs, working the circuit, understanding what makes a live performance work.

His writing brings a youthful energy to the artists of today — Stormzy, Fred Again, Sam Fender. He knows what it's like to be on stage, to build a set list, to connect with a crowd. That experience comes through in everything he writes.