Ben: Oh man, how is it already late October? I kept thinking it must be about time to do a checkout post for September and it’s managed to slip me by entirely. TS Eliot be damned. September is the cruelest month, not April. What have Dan and I...

So many great songs, artists and albums seem to be passed over entirely. Left of Centre aims to highlight music which should have reached a bigger audience than it did. In this edition: The Chalets. Ben: During a dark Glasgow evening late in 2003, I...

As Ben no longer has regular iPod access, he’s making do with one ‘big’ album a week, posting summary reviews every Monday. This coincides nicely with the #musicmonday meme on Twitter. How serendipitous! Ben: Still in a bit of an ‘alt-country’...

Dan: As you might recall in our previous Beatles post I’d not had much exposure to their work until a couple of months ago. I had never really heard more than their early Love Me Do stylings and as such I didn’t explore any further. Interestingly...

Ben: Yes, Ben’s mystery teapot! I was given a teapot by my brother, and, well, I made a video. The teapot is weird. Properly weird. You might be impressed. You might not. Video and a few additional comments after the jump. The music is (mostly) The...