Always happy to champion The Coral on here. The new album is really very good, but here’s a track from the last one which is a semi-regular ear worm of mine.

Back to Bedlam by James Blunt is one I’ve seen a few times. Does Oasis’ Be Here Now make it to charity shops these days? 6 months after release you couldn’t move for 2nd hand copies in record shops I used to […]

Round the Bay of Biscay…

The lyrics go somewhere else, but there’s a definite splice the mainbrace feel to the fiddle, and they’re on a boat in the video so:

Mentioned it on here before but it’s so good I’m going to mention it again. When I was 19 I was into classic rock / indie, then I bought a copy of the Soul Survivors compilation:

In the late 90s Northern Soul […]

From my not quite 3 year old while drawing a family picture:

“Tom got yellow hair.
Mummy got red hair.
Daddy… Not so much hair.”

When I worked with students one of them once said to me “Stop sharkin’ me […]

The Viz Profanisaurus must have 100 terms for this. Not yet mentioned:

Casting Churchill’s Reflection (aka lighting a bum cigar)
Building a log cabin

Mojo’s Maximum ’65 was a bit special. I was in my early 20s and it was a superb primer for digging beyond the obvious Beatles, Stones etc. One of those compilations that ends up costing a fortune with all the […]

Same here!

Tier 3 here but to be honest we’ve been doing click and collect shopping and avoiding other shops / eateries since the first lockdown ended so it really makes little difference. I would kill for a Costa right now […]

Recent outings have been patchy, but the first series of I’m Alan Partridge was a masterpiece. 6 perfectly realised episodes.

It’s the point where Thom stopped bothering with consonants and they lost me. But then I’ll always take a radio-friendly unit shifter over an artistic statement for the heads.

Who are these Beatles you speak of? Are they any good?

I remember hearing this for the first time & finding it ridiculously exciting, and I still love it today. Sadly nothing else in his catalogue comes even remotely close for me.

Billy Joel. Sunny Sunday afternoon, huge field of people roaring “Uptown Girl” and “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. Perfect.

In the Ghetto

Elvis:

Candi:

The King has been dethroned.

Honourable mention to Eric Cartman:

Neither had I until I read that interview, now I can’t unhear it. Sorry…

I recall an interview with the band shortly after this was released where they moaned that a musicologist had been in touch because their single sounded like Material Girl. Madonna’s skint writers must have been […]