Thanks everyone. So “yes watch it” seems to be the general advice! I tried episode one last night. Pretty good. Good enough to continue anyway.

James Gandolfini is remarkable. It really seems to be the […]

I was going to say Paul Buckmaster on Moonlight Mike, but it’s already been mentioned above. Probably my favourite string arrangement evaah.

But three more spring to mind. Forgive me for the lazy post but I’m […]

Can you tell us anything else about the show, slotbadger? I’d love to know a bit more about the content. Is it mainly a lecture, or are there lots of audio-visual bits, for example? Is it mainly shedding new light […]

I proper loved it…. but i just felt MAYBE it went too far in the last episode. It started getting a bit silly and sci-fi. But most of it was really compelling up until then.

Can someone please tell me…. is The Sopranos ACTUALLY worth watching? Or does it jump the shark, like just about every other long form drama I’ve ever tried to watch? I keep feeling as if I should give it a try […]

…. Oh you’re hilarious. YOU should write a sitcom…..

Good to see The Thick of It and The Office both high up. Two of the best sitcoms ever written.

Talking of sitcoms, is The IT Crowd in there? That’s great as well, but I didnt’ see it.

Speaking of the Hornsey Road show… I was going to create a new post for this but I’ll just put it here.

I bought two tickets for the Durham show, Thursday 17 October. But now I can’t make it. (Don’t fret – I […]

If there’s one thing the list shows, it’s that we are living in a golden age of movies. There’s undoubtedly a lot of dross and filler around these days, but if you just look at the best twenty, thirty movies in […]

I have no idea why this old thread appeared at the side of my feed again (do they sometimes appear randomly?) but I’m glad it did. Been listening to Led Zep a bit recently and this is a brilliant eye witness […]

Wow! What a story! Is that honestly what they are running with?

Anyway, yeah up here our court judges are all beatniks, of course.

Ha ha! I wonder if they all made friends with each other again while waiting in the queue for a kebab? Johnson and Corbyn with arms round each others shoulders, “You’re my besht mate, really, you know that?”…

Quite astonishing watching the events in the House of Commons last night. It was like a football match – jeering, shouting, chants… and even singing at the end. I can’t decide if I’m (a) pleased to see MPs on […]

A fair question. It’s hard to say, isnt it, how far up the wealth chain this will affect?

It was certainly an interesting debate. I love Question Time. I think it remains a key platform to get politicians speaking honestly and off the cuff (while trying to avoid doing so!) – I certainly don’t envy […]

Ooh, lovely. That seems like a great place to start. I must have missed that review at the time, or my head just wasn’t in a Curtis place. I just had a look in Fopp and the CD box is £16 so a little payday purchase I think.

What a brilliant comment. Applause from me.

I’m so glad you posted that because I was toying with the idea of posting something similar but I just couldn’t get the words out, as you managed to do so eloquently. I […]

I don’t blame you for returning to this point, but the thing is that it IS an old debate, and think it is a bit of a blind alley.

I voted remain. And do I think everyone that voted leave understood what they were […]

Wow, that sounds great and I had no idea Neil Finn had joined Fleetwood Mac. That seems bizarre but also strangely perfect.

I’ve posted on here before about how much I love Peter Green’s gentler, less bluesy […]