This one sticks in my mind – dancers covered in Tetris blocks. If the Flaming Lips did it we’d be told it was art:

Read: David Hepworth’s A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives. Look, it’s David Hepworth doing the David Hepworth thing and you’ve already made your mind up about him. If you didn’t like him before it […]

Bootsy teaches you the funk in about a minute:

Bedroom Scene – Delays
Low Down Dirty Girl – Laurel Aitken
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most – Mark Murphy
Burnt Biscuits – The Triumphs
Lay Lady Lay – Sandie Shaw

Pretty obscure selection.

Spent my honeymoon (flitterwochen) in Vienna. Definitely the Prater Ferris Wheel. IIRC, the Hundertwasserhaus is also fairly close and worth a look if psychedelic architecture is your thing.

I would love to see Boris smashed at this election, but you can’t always get what you want.

My autocorrect once changed Nigel Farage to Nicely Forage.

This. The party isn’t institutionally anti-semitic. It does however contain a small number of lunatics with their own agenda who make a lot of noise and have somehow not been removed. The party does need to look […]

I did buy newspapers but haven’t done for at least a decade now. My father-in-law still buys The Guardian and is baffled when I know about stories in there he’s interested in. In fact I’ve almost certainly read […]

I think the last bit. Now I’m older I know what I like and what makes me happy and while I’m always happy to share musical recommendations, I couldn’t give two hoots if someone says “Actually I didn’t like it”. […]

What I love about this site is no further explanation will be necessary.

I would rather listen to Joe Dolce than Ultravox.

Sales may have held up well, but I recall seeing a lot of 2nd hand copies in record shops in 1995/6. See also Be Here Now in 1998.

Oasis’ Cast No Shadow is about Richard Ashcroft of The Verve.

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Lord no. Buy some Uniqlo HeatTech (basically thermal underwear with good PR), then you can go about your business in your normal clothes. There’s no excuse for the fleece.

Several good ones from the late 80s / early 90s. I don’t remember too many after that:

I buy less and less new music these days and will no doubt remember something I should have included after posting this but:

The Coral – Butterfly House
Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley
First Aid […]

I don’t care that he’s so evidently a dick if the music is good. The young Liam’s voice was a thing of beauty. But it’s 2019 and that ship has long sailed…