@alias You’re pretty much correct. We just need to hold our nerve and hopefully not too much tinkering of our line up though the changes KM made for Saturday worked. Conor Chaplin can’t play tonight btw, in cas […]

Good point @alias re Lydon’s vocals. I love NMTB , it is mostly a very good rock album with Jonesy’s chunky guitar.

A new name for me @Alias. It’s only reasonable to post a clip or two

Thanks for introducing us to this remarkable chap @Alias. A man with a finger in all manner of interesting pies. The merengue Ghost Riders was a revelation.

Oi @alias You can’t leave it at that!

On the topic of strings in Latin hits, this Hector Lavoe hit has a magnificently dramatic arrangement, @Alias.

PLEASE IGNORE THE DOUBLE COMMENT ABOVE. David Byrne’s Rei Momo was an excellent choice, @Alias. It was a fantastic album and the tour he did with a Latino backing band was stupendous. So, who was playing […]

They are excellent @Alias. Great song too. I look forward to listening to more of their music. Exploring the world of the fiddle has led to me discovering all manner of rabbit holes. Here is an interview […]

That is a very good question @Alias– Herbie Hancock and also the Yardbirds. It looks like Antonioni had his finger on the pulse. This wiki quote is intereSting… The liner notes to a 2000s CD release […]

Thanks for those @Alias. Ousmane Kouyate has just got a record on Analog Africa that sounds like Malian Afrobeat

Thanks for the tip, @Alias. I’ll get on that mailing list. It’s tough for a small- distributor- Mubi, whose capabilities are still rather limited, had to clash with a reality which CEO Efe Çakarel defines […]

@Alias He squeezed Orangey’s arm in a blokey way and then produced and expounded on the contents of a letter from the King he’d artfully concealed in his suit pocket Trump reeled back like a man who, in the […]

@alias…git!

Yeah I remember both of those gigs @alias My mum and dad wouldn’t let me go…

You’re reading some really interesting books @Alias. Your mention of Vivien Goldman’s Indiscreet ( the fictionalised biography of the band which I’d never heard of) led me to this Guardian interview with […]

Thanks @Alias. I googled your quote and it led me this enthusiastic review by Phil Shanklin who had also read that Rough Guide review. He quotes the Rough Guide: “August Darnell and Stony Browder Jnr construct […]

The guy who wrote that book, @Alias, is music journalist and tour guide, Jesse Rifkin, who does guided tours of New York visiting places associated with the musical history of the city. He does a free Substack […]

Back to Bob Blank, @Alias. I just stumbled across this long, extremely detailed interview with him. It’s well worth reading the whole thing.. It captures the atmosphere of the time very well. Here’s what he said […]

Thanks @Alias. I’d never heard of Bob Blank despite the Kid Creole connection. There’s a compilation album of his work on Spotify: The Blank Generation. As you say, he’s an important figure in the rise of Kid […]

Thanks @Alias! That was an excellent selection of tracks. Gil Scott Heron had such a wonderful voice! Who wouldn’t want to listen to him? Very topical somehow. The election of a very unappealing Republican as president.