Excellent study of Mr Townshend sir.

You may be interested to have a look at some of Dylan’s recent songs that examine issues of spirituality, faith and the transcendence of music. I would recommend I’ve Made […]

Thanks for doing this Lodey. I wouldn’t even know how to begin collating this stuff – it’s a tremendous effort.

The right result too. Rough And Rowdy is a monumental record. It’s up there with Forever Changes and […]

1 Bob Dylan – Rough And Rowdy Ways
2 Sam Lee – Old Wow
3 Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets – Live At The Roundhouse
4 Sparks – A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
5 Robyn Hitchcock – The Man Downstairs
6 Jonatha […]

There was a programme about this song on Radio 4 a couple of days ago. It was collected as a 2 line fragment by John Jacob Niles in 1933 in Carolina. They didn’t play this version. I think the programme is called […]

Rest In Peace big man. One of the greats.

Au contraire Monsieur Saucey, Rough And Rowdy Ways is the Bob Dylan album I have been waiting fifty years to hear. I’ve never been smitten with a record so much in my life. Don’t wait fifty years.

To return to […]

The best (well only) good news I’ve heard for months.

What a fantastic detailed review Colin. Thank you. I learned a lot I didn’t know, including that David Kemper was briefly the drummer.

Focus were a fabulous band in their pomp between 1971 and 1974. Focus III […]

I bought the Big Box (second release: box due in march) and to my surprise and relief my hi-res download code arrived by email at 3am Saturday morning. The download site is a bit clunky but I got it sorted in the […]

Thanks for reminding me of the wonderful Hunt For The Wilder People. What We Do In The Dark too. TV spin off is just as good: The Baron’s Night Out is a great episode. Check it out.

Also, Death Of Stalin is a […]

Shirley

Airplane (by a mile)

Dumb And Dumber

Take The Money And Run

Top Secret (if only for the prison scene)

Holy Grail

I find that Blues Brothers is no longer funny and the Marx Brothers films have the Margaret […]

That’s brilliant! I just hope he’s not over feeding them. I think he is in Nova Scotia.

Obviously I haven’t read this yet, but Jeeves And The King Of Clubs was wonderful: faithful in both spirit and detail and uproariously funny. I bought a copy for a huge Plum fan who absolutely lapped it up […]

Looks good. Two questions:

1) What does it sound like? Is there full dynamic range?

2) Is the Classic Albums video in English?

Just finished this at the weekend. I agree with @Junglejim above – I too found it clunky at first but ended up really enjoying it. It is only when the Horologists turn up that any real plot element emerges. I did […]

Leonard Cohen at Birmingham Odeon in late December 1979. Both Jennifer Warnes and a very young Sharon Robinson in the heavenly choir. Raffi Hakopian on violin. It was snowing that night and it was like going to […]

I’ve got a CDR of Octoberon somewhere. I will give it a second listen!

I think you’re right. 16 quid to see McCartney? Blimey.