Dropkick are very Fannie-esque. I saw them as a support act many years ago. Later found out the singer has the same name as me.

There have been a couple of very pleasant albums from this trio:

My favourite film I saw this year was from 2023 but I only heard of it once when I saw it in a 2 for £15 sale at HMV last month. Robot Dreams – a lonely dog living in 80s New York buys a robot to be his best […]

Agreed, they deserve more success. This is a lovely performance by them:

Often in crime shows the solicitor in an interview scene is just a silent extra. As the detectives tear into the suspect, or as the suspect willingly confesses, their brief just sits there quietly, maybe […]

Madness? Madness!

Those sales figures are for units sold but there’s presumably a significant number who’ll have bought the vinyl and CD. Or even the vinyls and CDs given there are multiple versions of each, each with a dif […]

The first season of True Detective used one of their songs on its opening credits. So when I was on a trip to the big city many years ago I picked up quite a few of their albums in a Fopp sale. Which led to this […]

In a similar vein, I still hope that one day Rubicon will appear again somewhere. BBC4 showed it many years ago and I had it recorded but my box died when I’d only seen the first couple of episodes. This was a […]

Read your mention of Berlin and espionage and thought wonder if this was Berlin Station, and it is! More 4 showed the first two seasons of this ages ago but didn’t, so far as I ever realised, show the final s […]

When my brother, a maths teacher, married a drama teacher, I put a line in my best man speech: “Both teachers, when you have kids they’ll grow up knowing how to pretend to be a tree… with square roots”.

Digging out my Words from the attic for a re-read has been on my to-do list for a while.

Also need to find them to remind myself what my first issue was so I could try to complete my set too. The list of its […]

First Custard’s The Deepest

Would 99 Problems qualify?

Excellent review. I’ve had this book on order for a while.

BBT somehow passed me by till late last year. Before then they were a name I would see from time to time in Burning Shed newsletters, and places like h […]

Presumably he’s been hiding his real name so no one realises he created the Daleks.

Loved reading each of the Bowie posts. Book ordered!

Oh, I already do. I’ve been a regular purchaser from Burning Shed for a several years and get their newsletter. It’s just I was focussed on other acts that I knew like Steven Wilson’s various projects.

I do re […]

They’re a fairly recent discovery for me. Looking forward to the new album, as love the songs already released from it.

Unfortunately, as someone that still looks to buy on CD, I do seem to have arrived far t […]

Alphabetical dividers are out now (or perhaps were never in)? Noted.

I can’t immediately remove them from my shelves and destroy them as a few years ago I succumbed to a severe case of marriage. Suddenly we n […]

Not just Tennant and Tate. Big Finish reunited Tennant and Piper too. Seems David has kept busy during lockdown by recording a host of audio adventures for them from his own home including stories teaming him up […]

I’m not crying, it’s just been raining. On my face…