“Left all alone, I’m with the one I most fear,” Adrian Borland sang on “I Can’t Escape Myself,” the first and best song on The Sound‘s 1980 debut album Jeopardy, and as conveyed in ...

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of Adrian Borland–leader of UK post-punk cult heroes The Sound, the punk band The Outsiders before that, a solo career, and more–there will be ...

The lyrics Adrian Borland composed for his bands The Outsiders, Second Layer, or with his greatest artistic achievement, the South London 80’s post-punk pop outfit The Sound, were a glimpse into a ...

An April 2002 feature in Uncut summarised Sound main-man Adrian Borland as saying “Bono took all my ideas, I coulda been a contender.” This, remarked the piece, “wasn't delusional, or beyond ...

Others fade away. Then there are those, like The Sound, who never get the chance to do either. Fronted by the mercurial Adrian Borland, the south London post-punk outfit eluded the attention of ...

"I can't believe how good we sound," writes drummer Mike Dudley ... On earlier songs like "Heartland" and "Winning", the late, great Adrian Borland was a match for any singer or guitarist on ...

Adrian Borland is someone whom most people won’t know. As the frontman of post-punk band The Sound, he lacked the wan, pretty features of the likes of Curtis, Ian McCulloch or Julian Cope, while also ...

Borland was best known as the lead singer of The Sound, but was involved in various music projects in his 41 years of life, notably The Outsider's, Second Layer, Adrian Borland and The Citizens ...