I thought this was a joke, but it’s not.

Mike Watson has been appointed to Jezza’s front bench as education spokesman. That’s Mike Watson, the convicted firestarter.

Who on earth is writing these scripts?

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/fraser-nelson/2015/09/jeremy-corbyn-makes-mike-watson-a-convicted-arsonist-his-education-spokesman-yes-seriously/

What songs to these announcements preface, and for a bonus, from what album?

1) “Just in case!”

2) “Are there any paranoids in the audience tonight? Is there anyone who worries about things? Pathetic”

3) “Here’s one you may well know, you may not know it, and if you don’t know it I really don’t know where you’ve been! So you should know the tune!”

4) “Now then, let’s see if we can spot the over twenty fives in the audience. See if you remember this one”

5) “Lotta folks of all different nationalities and things, come up to me and say, “I dug my Grandmother, too…”

I cant remember the last time I saw a TOTP 1980. Have the BBC just quietly dropped it?

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Bargepole loves Don Henley’s music – here’s one from his forthcoming album ‘Cass County’ – enjoy!

I love LP sleeve notes, me. They hark back to a simpler, more innocent time before fancy artwork took over and when the record companies felt they had to sell us the music via a litany of painfully earnest (and often painfully untrue) facts and figures about the artist(s) in question. Looking back now, many sleeve notes read like something out of Dickens. Which is why I love them so much.

Here’s some sleeve notes with the relevant identifying words blacked out. All you have to do is tell me who the band or artist is. If you want to be a proper smart arse, you can also identify the LP as well.

This could well fall flat on its bum, but if there’s any interest, I’ll do some more. Can’t say fairer than that.

http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt351/mojoworking01/sleevenotes2_zps2w6h9fhy.jpg

My Sonny Bono jeans – he makes them in his spare time – have eight belt loops. Is this his first record in a very long time?

Can you match @minibreakfast at mailing an album in just one sentence?

More in the comments….

http://bobsbigbox.blogspot.co.uk

I’m not a huge fan of Lenny Henry, but I am currently watching him engage in real conversation with Van Morrison… In five minutes I can multi-task with Gary Moore does Hendrix and what looks like an excellent Later with that ex-Squeeze bloke. New David Gilmour earlier, followed by an “adequate” England rugby performance makes this pessimist think today is rather good.

How has your day been?

Generations of student music pseuds weep. When was its help day? !975 – 85 I think. Many of the present generation of style Journalists and media pundit rentagob learnt their stuff there and then.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34287671

Big Country – In a Big Country

Great production by Steve Lillywhite as well…

https://youtu.be/di-_n05tppo

Steve Jansen’s a very entertaining friendly bloke.

http://sleepyard.tumblr.com/

I’m posting this for a couple of reasons, firstly this has become my favourite Foo Fighters song, it’s from Sonic Highways which could well be my favourite Foo fighters album, secondly I suspect Joe Walsh may be someone who is appreciated round here and thirdly because I have learnt from this video the importance of silence in song, it’s almost the gaps that Joe Walsh leaves that make his playing more special. The completed song is in the comments, enjoy…….

My favourite sweary stop/start bit. This has been sending a small shudder down my spine for almost 40 years. 2:15 onwards to jump to the sweary stop/start bit. Any others this good?

A perfect marriage?

Bad Blood is to these ears most excellent! The album should be ace-in-a-bucket….

Does anyone remember those surreal but almost believable news headlines that Chris Morris used to announce on The Day Today. I think I’ve just found one in the Camden New Journal

“Myleene Klass’s stowaway crab will not have survived Hampstead Heath waters, experts fear”

Any others you’ve come across?

Fascinating at any time, more so now Turnbull is PM.

http://dailyreview.com.au/steve-kilbey-on-his-and-malcolm-turnbulls-adolescent-fumbles-in-love-and-politics/30276?utm_source=The+Rundown&utm_campaign=ce42cd58d9-The_Rundown_Friday_18_September18_9_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_33b9e8bf4f-ce42cd58d9-81009821

I’m still coming to terms with what I heard and saw tonight. Astonishing is the best I can come up with. Maybe @lando-cakes or @yorkio can help me out as they witnessed this percussive, finely honed machine in action too. Seems tomorrow night is under subscribed, if you fancy it, and you should, they were handing out free tickets for the Friday performance.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b268/Sunburst369/Do-not-Fripp_zpsfrgvc083.jpg

What is the coolest thing you have ever seen ever?

Today, for me, it’s that Professor Steven Hawking singing Monty Python’s “Galaxy Song” from The Meaning Of Life.

I mean honestly, this is just so cool that the general “cool scale” needs to be re-imagined.

Can anyone here beat this in terms of cool as fuckness? I DOUBT IT! Feel free to try though…

Unashamedly nicked from the Grauniad, what’s your fave TV theme tune, and why? I immediately thought of “Stingray.” Back then, as a nipper, there was nothing more exciting. These “people” had American accents (yes kids, once it was unusual, or at least notable). Viewing it now, the sight of all those exclusively WASP right on “World” (AKA American) Aquanaut Security Patrol dudes in their uniforms, where any perceived alien threat could easily be sorted out with a Sting missile, fills me not with disgust at a misguided and over simplistic world, but with a sense of loss at the easy certainties of the era, when (channeling Gil Scott Heron) TV was in black and white, and so was everything else. And it starts with sirens, an explosion, and kettle drums. What more do you want?