The Open Neck Shirt

'The Open Neck Shirt - A Blog for Our Times.' This is a forum for a group of disparate students and some Manchester based friends, who started at Manchester Polytechnic in 1978. Ian Harry Aspinall, Neil Aloysius Smith, Peter Sebastian Younger, Phil G'day Sorah, Kenneth Albert Thorpe, Ian Stan Shaw, Gary Vicary, Ian Clark, Graham Sutherland, Jon Marshall and various other occasional guests.

Friday, November 29, 2019

Albums of the Year 2019

That was a year of some great music with established artists producing new material and plenty of challenging new artists making an imp...

Thursday, December 06, 2018

Albums of the Year 2018

What a great year for music it's been with some established artists producing innovative new material and plenty of new bands coming...

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Albums Of The Year 2017

This year it's been a very difficult task to narrow it down to just 10 albums but here's my selection of the best of 2017. I...

Thursday, December 08, 2016

2016’s best albums

2016 has been a very strange year for all kinds of reasons but amidst all the doom and gloom there's at least been some positive creativ...

Thursday, December 03, 2015

The 15 Best Albums of 2015

It's that time of the year again, so here's my list of the top 15 albums of 2015. I've provided a selection of tracks from each...

Monday, December 08, 2014

The Top Ten Albums of 2014

Here's my list of the top ten albums of 2014. I've provided a selection of tracks from each of the albums, so please have a listen/w...

Friday, December 13, 2013

The Top Ten Albums of 2013

Here's the almost famous Open Neck Shirt top ten albums of 2013. My favourite album of the year is 'AM' by the Arctic Monkeys....

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