Remote is probably peak H&C but the studio follow up, Stars Crash Down, deserves hearing. After that they venture more into jazz tinged stuff for a couple of albums but the melodies remain strong. In between […]

They didn’t play this one either, sadly

Liverpool Empire last night. Guest was Claire Sweeny who was very funny. She appeared to know absolutely nothing about what was going on – is that real or just good writing? Highly recommended show. I’ve seen […]

Loved the Au Pairs and saw them several times around 1980/81ish. They’re playing Liverpool with the Skids next year but I wouldn’t go now after reading all of this, which I probably would have done if it had been […]

I love my granddaughters but my god it reminds you why you have children when you’re younger. We are currently looking after ours (6 and almost 3) for a few days while my eldest and his wife are at a wedding and […]

Queen have never been a band I was really into after Sheer Heart Attack but as far as Bo Rhap is concerned, what’s not to like? (You do call it Bo Rhap, don’t you?). I’d question how original it is, mind you […]

Probably not on the list but the bass break in the middle of “You Can Call Me Al”. (Actually a bass break and then the same break run backwards, I discovered a while ago!)

That whole Propellerheads album is fantastic – an amazing sounding thing all round

This one is next in my reading queue. Have really enjoyed all the previous ones in the series.

Thanks Tiggs. Most of it seems to be available on the Internet Archive but I presume that’s lacking any cleaning up and is at at least one track less.

You can get a Windows 11, core i7, 16gb refurb Dell machine on Amazon nowadays for £120 or less. We buy them for the office and they are absolute workhorses.

The Dodgers effed up delivery of the box so not arriving for another week. 😡 This way I don’t get the Charlton gig any way so very interested to hear about that from anyone who’s ordered a box that includes it […]

Swap the hard drive for an SSD. Looks like you only need a 500gb drive which are cheap as chips these days. If that doesn’t speed things up enough it’s probably just that 12 year old performance is all you’re going to get

Snorts tea 😊 Never a wrong time for this, it seems

I’m mindful of potential circumstances beyond individuals control and I would accept a degree of lack of charity on my part were it not for the fact that on the two recent occasions this has been an issue, it was […]

The GLW has to book seats for anything, gig, theatre etc that include an end of row seat for me or I pretty much won’t go. It’s not claustrophobia in my case, just want a decent chance of being able to have […]

They’re all on streaming in lossless (and presumably TLRA next Friday.

I suppose it’s a function of my age (the 70’s were my teenage years) but so many of the current crop of “50th Anniversary” re-releases are albums that are so utterly part of my very being and this one is right up […]

Me too. Wasp Star is also tremendous and contains at least a couple of my top XTC tracks – We’re All Light and Church of Women. Underwhelming – pah!!