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Following on from Lodey’s post mentioning the ‘six album rule’ in the Artists you really miss thread.

Johnny Cash is a classic example of an act who’d been effectively written off only to release a remarkable album (in his case a run of albums) at the fag end of his career.

There are, I am sure, loads of others

Looks like he’s going to be plain Mr, Windsor from here on in.

Wonder how much they’ll have to shell out to keep him from publishing a tell all book.

Or will he and Fergie go the Neil and Christine Hamilton route and do pantos (Andy as Baron Hard on and Fergie ads for Curcerin foot powder) or reality TV (Come Dine With One)

A sort of bastard love child of @Hamlet’s post re great album tracks thread.

Obvious one for me is Stardust on the Kinks Village Green Preservation Society

While a brilliant song, the roughly contemperaneous Days would surely have fitted far better with the album’s theme and vibe

8-CD

4-LP

2-CD highlights

Prices and full track listings for all three sets on SDE website link

Very early recordings – bit too early for me so I might stick toypthe 2-cD.

That said, the BS sets often come up at can’t miss prices so who knows

https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/bob-dylan-through-the-open-window-bootleg-series-vol-18-1956-1963/

Arguably the chippiest of a rag-tag assemblage of first generation Irish working-class immigrants whose prominent members include Kevin Rowland and Shane McGowan (not to mention lesser though by no means less chippy luminaries like YT), JL has never been one to “back down.” It’s a mantra he will repeatedly use throughout this evening’s show when explaining the upbringing in London’s Irish diaspora that shaped both him and his take-no-prisoners attitude in later life.

Given the horrors inflicted on the country by first Cromwell and later the various UK governments and landowners during the potato famine of the mid-1840s, Ireland and its people have always been quick and vociferous in calling out injustices, both real and perceived.

The 20 or so Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside Cavan Town Hall the night the John Lydon Circus when its spoken word iteration rolled into town were no less galvanized. Ever the iconoclast, the Rotten One had doubtless clocked many of the same faces occupying the seats inside the smallish (244-pax) venue when he took to the stage and girded his loins accordingly.

Proceedings kicked off with the AITUHM bounding onstage to Bowie’s John I’m Only Dancing. Spanning everything from Cliff to Joe » Continue Reading.

The old curmudgeon has just turned 80

Was listening to the Drive By Truckers magnificent version of 18 Wheels of Love on their splendid At SXSW album and thought how many great songs are actually short stories

Harry Chapin’s Cats in the Cradle is an obvious one, as is Nilsson’s Rainnaker and George Jones’ He Stopped Loving Her Today

So go ahead, fill yer boots as Patterson Hood might say

Reason I ask is that I’ve just learned the noxious neighbors in my five year planning nightmare have been cleared to apply to the HIgh Court for a Judicial Review

Having done so much to gift Farage and his chums Brexit by doing so little for the Remain campaign in the 2016 Referendum, Jeremy C is back with a new party!

Assuming it lasts long enough, his link up with Zarah Sultana could well play a pivotal role in handing Nige the keys to No 10 by splitting the Labour vote at the next election

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/jeremy-corbyn-your-party-zarah-sultana-wqv373cwh

Morally and/or ethically unsavory POTUS – check

The drip-drip-drip of scandal that won’t got away – check

The unconvincing denials – check

Suspicious gaps in crucial tapes – check

The unpleasant VP waiting in the wings – check

Going to be interesting to see where this goes next.

I suspect it isn’t going to end well for Orangey, or – should Vance succeed him before the mid-point of his term and have a realistic shot at two years followed by two terms in office – the rest of us

For me, has to be a show that wasn’t even shown on TV – just BBC Iplayer – Adam Curtis’s David Kynaston-like mélange of the dying years of the twentieth century Shifty. Beginning with Jimmy Savile and ending with David Bowie and taking in everything you could imagine in between and flinging it at the screen Jackson Pollock-style, it’s as good as TV gets.

Other worthwhile documentaries include Live Aid at 40 and the decidedly odd Paul Reubens two-parter Pee Wee Herman by Himself

Best new show for me is Friends and Neighbours. John Hamm gives it full Dan Draper duality as the successful Big Swinging Dick financial whizz who starts burglarizing the homes of his rich entitled neighbours when his career gets flushed down the toilet.

Other new shows worth mentioning include Liverpool-set mob drama, This City Is Our (a million times better than the similar woeful Mobland. The latter is only worth watching to hear actual Irish person, Pierce Brosnan, deliver an even worse cod-Oirish accent than the one sported by Helen Mirren), Millie Brown and the second – heavily fictionalized – series of The Gold.

Other returning shows worth catching include season 4 of the » Continue Reading.

Picked up a set of all five of Chris Stapleton albums on vinyl for just under £18.

Was still up on the AUK website a couple of minutes ago if anyone is interested

Just about everyone who’s ever been anyone in the world of heavy metal Pitching up to see the Sabs get together to wish Ozzy well in retirement.

Van’n’Neil Capture the Castle – Malahide Thurs 26 June 26, 2025

With Neil Y looking like he might never play live again in recent years, the chance to see him cut loose on Old Black one last time was not something I was likely to pass up. The addition of Van M – the only artist in my collection to rival Neil for sheer length of fandom and number of albums I own – made the bill doubly enticing. The only fly in the ointment? The gig was at Malahide Castle – universally reviled as being the worst venue in and around Dublin to schlep to and from. The leaden skies – nobody does leaden skies quite like Ireland and nowhere in Ireland does leaden skies quite like Malahide – the 25-minute trudge to the venue was like Bonaparte’s Retreat. (Obviously feeling our pain, VTM would include the song in his mid-set medley). While I didn’t arrive in time to see the opening act, Everyone Says Hi, I heard two or three OKish-sounding numbers and wish them well for the future. And so to the main event. The similarities between V and N are numerous. While both can be – » Continue Reading.

Sounds bloody brilliant.

Looking forward to seeing him the Chrome Hearts with VTM suppioting next Thurs in Malahide Castle (although not the getting back – sounds like a fucking nightmare)

https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/stories/neil-young-live-in-sweden-reviewed/

He’s apparently going to be outside the rehearsal studio waiting to have a word with Roger D about his treatment of Zak

Inspired/informed by the death of his dad, Larry (Lonesome Dove)

Been four years since Horses and Hounds and eight years since he last came to Europe so hope he tours.