What does it sound like?: A Prince demo is no ordinary demo. Besides the usual synthesiser, drum machine and click tracks, most of the demos on Originals include overdubs, … [Read More...]
Musings on the byways of popular culture
Nights In
Bruce Springsteen Western Stars
What does it sound like?: For me Bruce Springsteen has always been more interesting when he’s taken it down a notch. It was Tunnel of Love where it all clicked into place for me … [Read More...]
Pink Floyd – The Division Bell (25th Anniversary)
What does it sound like?: The final album released while Pink Floyd was still an active band, this year marks the 25th anniversary of The Division Bell, reissued now as a double … [Read More...]
Hank Marvin – Gold
What does it sound like?: Very straight renditions of popular classics rendered in true twangy Hank manner, impeccably played and unmistakably him over his solo career. You get … [Read More...]
Nights Out
Fonda 500
Venue: Portland Arms, Cambridge Date: 14/06/2019 Fonda 500 had a few years off recording before last year's 'I Heart Fonda 500' album and hadn't visited Cambridge for ten years. … [Read More...]
Midnight Oil
Venue: O2 Apollo Manchester Date: 09/06/2019 "We had to play Too Much Sunshine because it’s the opposite of what you’ve got here and because we waited such a long time to come … [Read More...]
Nick Lowe
Venue: The Old Market, Brighton & Hove Date: 04/06/2019 'I think there will be something in our repertoire tonight to satisfy even the most jaded of audience members, … [Read More...]
The Cure
Venue: Sydney Opera House Date: 30/05/2019 The last of five nights performing the Disintegration album + assorted non-album tracks from that era as part of Sydney's Vivid … [Read More...]
Features
Respect The Shelving: or the six ages of collecting
moseleymoles on In which Mr Moles muses on his life through objects
Recent changes chez Moles have thrown more focus onto the shelves, racks and piles of stuff that we – chiefly I – have filled our des res with over the years. The re-organisation of the Front Room has led Ms Moles to make what she would like to think is a ‘full and final settlement’ of the space allocated for CDs/vinyl/books/comics/DVDs. That settlement in full:
The DVDs not to exceed their allocated shelving. Roughly 650 DVDs worth.
The fiction shelving not to exceed their allocated shelving. Approximately 800-900 including overflow onto the floor below and behind the sofa.
Non-fiction and vinyl not to exceed their allocated shelving. Vinyl is one area Ms Moles does chip in with approx. a third of the total. And no, we may have been together 30 odd years and produced two offspring but those collections remain unmerged.
New shelving to be provided in the front room as part of its redecoration for the CDs – I would reckon between 1500-2000 (maybe 300 Ms Moles). And for the comics – around 2500 (er…all mine, 90% 2000AD).
Though I instinctively bridle, I know that » Continue Reading.
Films
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story By Martin Scorsese
Year: 2019 Director: Martin Scorsese That subtitle should be a clue. As well as the sub subtitle that pops up after ancient magic trick footage 'Conjouring The Rolling Thunder … [Read More...]
Good Omens
Year: 2019 Director: Douglas MacKinnon (THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE AMAZON PRIME|BBC SERIES BUT THOUGHT IT FITTED BEST HERE) I hated the Hitchhicker's Guide To The Galaxy film so … [Read More...]
John Wick 3: Parabellum
Year: 2045 Director: Chad Stahelski The action hero movie has become something of an endangered species. In the 80s and 90s it was THE genre as Bruce, Arnie, Sly ruled the box … [Read More...]
Rocketman
Year: 2019 Director: Dexter Fletcher Director Dexter Fletcher (aka Baby Face from Bugsy Malone aka Spike from Press Gang) infamously came in to complete the Queen biopic … [Read More...]
Reads
On Track – The Rolling Stones 1963 – 1980
Author:Steve Pilkington I really enjoy the books in this excellent ongoing and ever expanding series, which analyses a band's output album by album, song by song. This one covers … [Read More...]
If She Wakes
Author:Michael Koryta American writer Michael Koryta is not a particularly recognisable name on these shores, but he has a long line of thrillers behind him, usually standalone … [Read More...]
All That’s Dead
Author:Stuart MacBride The latest volume in this long running and consistently first class series featuring Inspector Logan McRae, along with his usual cohorts, Steel, Rennie and … [Read More...]
Record Play Pause
Author:Stephen Morris ‘Drummers, Stephen, they all end up taking morphine and drinking absinthe. You don’t want to end up like that do you?’ Fatherly advice received by New Order … [Read More...]
Games
Nier 2: Automata
Platform:Playstation Age Rating:16+ Year of Release:1949 Review:This batshit crazy Japanese manga-esque RPG explore-and-destroyer has been a game that’s broken through into the … [Read More...]
Destiny 2
Platform:Playstation Age Rating:16+ Year of Release:2017 Review:In 22 Jump Street - possibly apart from Aliens and T2 the best ever sequel - Ice Cube greets the returning cops … [Read More...]
Noticeboard
John Wetton box alert!
A PR who contacts me occasionally tells me that there is a John Wetton box set in the pipeline following his passing a couple of years ago. As there is a lot of affection for the … [Read More...]
More Guitars!
Hi, I'm el hombre malo, you may know me from such threads as "Blogger Takeover I through to L", etc. I also play guitar in The Beat Poets and in the Primevals. I've recorded a CD … [Read More...]
Re-Play Papworth – Queen
30/06/2019 Queen's Greatest Hits (the UK's best-selling album) played from half-speed mastered vinyl on a top-flight hi-fi in the Courtyard Café, Papworth Everard. Home-roasted … [Read More...]
Re-Play Papworth – 1981 Pop
26/05/2019 OMD's Architecture & Morality, The Human League's Dare, Soft Cell's Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go 12" and a handful of other 1981 pop singles played from … [Read More...]
Barmcake
A new issue of my magazine Barmcake is out now. It features interviews with the director of Being Frank, Tjinder Singh from Cornershop, Adelle Stripe, A Certain Ratio, Bernard … [Read More...]
Nothing Is Real – A Beatles Podcast
Hey folks. Myself and StevenC have started a new podcast about, are you ready for this, THE BEATLES. We are launching today and in future weeks will cover such topics as Help! … [Read More...]
