Single: The Windmills Of Your Mind – Noel Harrison. B-Side was Leitch On The Beach a homage to Donovan.
LP: Fill Your Head With Rock CBS double sampler LP. Introduced me to Leonard Cohen, Laura Nyro, Al Stewart […]

This could be great. This is the opening song lyric. Leonard knew it was a great song but said “I never quite nailed the vocal”. Well, I expect “never quite” to still be very good indeed.

HAPPENS TO THE […]

Congratulations! My Dad was a postie, then local office manager, all his working life post war. Naturally I did the post at Christmas for several seasons. I once delivered a package to Jimmy Tarbuck. His words of […]

@hubert-rawlinson No luck. Sold out I’m afraid. Assuming there are questions from the audience I wonder if you could ask a question on my behalf? I have always wondered about the mastering to vinyl of the […]

Thanks @hubert-rawlinson We’re keen to go – never been to the licorice fields of Pontefract. However the Cat Club website says tickets are “out of stock”. Hmm. I’ll give them a ring tomorrow. Assuming they are […]

Where’s John Wood appearing Hubert? I would very much like to meet the great man.

My very first gig was at Fairfield Hall, Croydon with Genesis, Lindisfarne and Van Der Graaf Generator – in that order! Not recorded, alas. I also saw Bowie there twice in 73 and a near 4 hour Fairport Convention […]

I used my retirement money to buy an Oppo, receiver and 5 big speakers for the front room. I enjoy surround sound a lot. Electric Ladyland is a great one. Even the dreaded Topographic Oceans is hugely improved by […]

Well I bought Hunky Dory before Ziggy came out: February 10th 1072 IIRC. Rather valuable laminated first pressing that I still have.

Most of Ziggy (all but Starman) was recorded in December 1971.

Nietzsche may well be assuming that the composer and librettist are separate people. The lyrics to many operas are clunky to say the least, but the tunes may well be heavenly.

Anyway, I can’t agree from my […]

A second vote for the taxi tour. We did it 2 years ago and it was brilliant.

Get Live At The Lyceum on vinyl. I bought it on release and it is the bee’s knees of live albums. I bought a back up copy recently for a tenner which sounds just as good as my first press copy.

I am really […]

Mrs Artery and myself watched Stormzy’s complete set and both thought he was brilliant. We fully intended to watch a couple of songs and turn over but we were quite spellbound. We were at Glastonbury for Jay Zee […]

1978 world tour.

It’s Rob Stoner on bass and Howie Wyeth on drums. After Rolling Thunder they became Robert Gordon and Link Wray’s backup band and recorded a great LP called Fresh Fish Special.

I know he’s been dead for 5 years but JJ Cale’s new one is a belter. It is a collection of unreleased finished and newly augmented unheard songs, lovingly curated by JJ’s widow Christine Lakeland. Dare I say it, […]

Which years? No idea, but my Dad would have been 99 last week so there’s some parameters. The cop shop a pub? Really? Good god. And they’re still trading and the Fountain is derelict? Blimey.

Off to bed.

My Dad played full back for the other Wimbledon many years ago. He was a postman in New Malden like for ever; he probably delivered to Traps Lane. Actually, come to think of it so did I. I did the post at […]

Sorry to hear about the tragic loss of your parents so young. That would have been dreadful and life altering. So perhaps New Malden is a fondly remembered golden age of innocence for you? It was a good place to […]

Ah yes, I remember Cannings and know Traps Lane too. We lived in Queen’s Road, off Burlington Road. What period? I was born in 1955. My parents lived there until they died. I sold the old house in 2002.

Did you […]