Every now and again I get an email from people about my band, Passion Star. I was almost famous you know. I was on TV, a film soundtrack and we played from one end of the country to the other. We played in front of crowds as big as 35,000 people. The one thing we didn’t do however, was break into the the UK top 40 singles chart, instead our 3 singles bumbled around the 90 mark, but we still meant a lot to some people. The story is here.

Anyway, recently I got an email from a guy named Chris Fox who came from Wolverhampton and saw us a few times and later came across us playing in Dundee where he now lives. Well he writes for http://www.tangents.co.uk/ and was writing an article on another band, Spare Snare who hail from Dundee. Seeing the connection between Passion Star and Spare Snare both coming from his home towns he then saw more parallels and contacted me about the article as he prepared to write it.

I like the article myself and it matches much of how I remember things. What he kindly doesn’t mention is that the Dundee gig was an absolute stinker and his sister, who also saw quite a few of our early gigs, saw us play at Strathclyde University, which as it happens was quite possibly the worst gig we ever did.

Anyway, enough of my rambling, the article is here. Thanks Chris.