Ocean Colour Scene - On The Leyline

This week's entrants in the 'didn't know they were still around' category are Ocean Colour Scene.

Ocean Colour Scene confuse and frustrate me. They confuse me because they're prone to haircuts which are longer at the sides than on top. It's a tremendously unflattering look, particularly now they're all middle-aged.

They frustrate me, because despite showing a bit of promise with the old guitar, they have literally NO ambition. None whatsoever. Why pretend that it's not the distant past when you could just reinterpret sixties blues-rock until the end of time?

They're like those hippies who wish we all still lived in the Middle Ages before the world was ruined by television, increased free time and civilisation.

Well if you're going to wallow in the past you have to take the negatives as well, be they leprosy and the Black Death or drug-fuelled paranoia and an income of about £3,000 a year.

That's what it was like for bands in the Sixties, Ocean Colour Scene. Go on - live it like you mean it. (The leprosy and Black Death were for the hippies, but you can give them a whirl too, if you want).