In my early days of reading the music papers, I remember the NME letters pages being full of complaints about the slating the latest Yes/ELP/Genesis album had received.

I look at reviews with a view to buying albums. Less than 4 stars and I’m not interested. 4 or 5 stars and I will read the reviews and decide. Who wrote it is a factor too. There are reviewers that I mostly don’t […]

I’m sure most of us know people who have taken drugs and don’t view any of them as a criminal. I certainly wouldn’t recommend anyone to take drugs, but I really don’t get why people who take even heroin or […]

Great story!

SAHB Live is a great album, their best. They are a band I really regret never seeing live (not that I ever got the opportunity).

The turnout in 2024 may have been the lowest ever in terms of percentage of the electorate. I would have suggested the Lib Dems were a possible vote for the disillusioned Tory voters, but I see that their vote […]

The Tory vote in 2024 collapsed to 6.8M from 13.9M in 2019. It was the lack of tactical voting by right wing voters that won Labour the election. Huge numbers wouldn’t vote Tory and switched to Reform. An ideal […]

Two tongues are better than one! Yerba Buena – Bilingual Girl

I’m certainly not a fan, but I can’t argue with any of that.

Yes, but they have all expressed their concern for the victims. I’m sure they will soon demonstrate their concern by revealing everything they know. I’m sure they were equally concerned about the victims of […]

He’s not the only bad apple, didn’t Harry marry a black woman and move to Canada, or something? That was considered very bad indeed by the royalists that I know.

They wouldn’t want him to lose his phone after all, would they? You know, like Boris and Sunak did before the Covid enquiry..

At the time it seemed like there was, even though punk clearly didn’t come out of nowhere. You could make a list of loud, fast, high energy rock songs going from the early 1960s to the 1980s in chronological […]

Totally agree.

“Get Brexit Done” was a very successful campaign slogan for the Tories. The electoral pact with Farage helped massively too. 6.8M was a disaster, which had nothing to do with McSweeney. He can take part of the […]

He’s not responsible for the Conservative vote dropping from 13.9M in 2019,to 6.8M in 2024.

There’s a YouTube channel which reports on all council byelection results. Recent results have been catastrophic for Labour. If their vote is down 20%, then that is a comparatively good result for them.

The article doesn’t mention his role in the Qbadisc label, He had to wrangle with authorities in order to get past the American sanctions on Cuba. Their Cuban Gold compilation series was killer. It introduced me […]

Which reminds me of the country and western violin playing on David Byrne’s Latin album Rei Momo

Record label boss, Author, journalist, musician and all round great guy Ned Sublette combined his love of country with his love of Cuban music in his album Cowboy Rumba. I really like it, but it’s maybe not for […]