This got me through a very difficult time some years ago:

James Brown did some interesting noodle ads in Japan:

Loads but two that spring to mind. If I never hear Maxwell’s Silver Hammer again it’ll be too soon. And Hey Now! on What’s the Story… is a horrendous dirge, especially when you look at the material Oasis were […]

Yes! Yes yes yes!

Depeche Mode are the band with most Top 40 hits yet never a Number 1. I think this is the most interesting thing about them.

I hear The Darkness a lot at the moment, as they provide the theme and incidental music to Grace’s Amazing Machines, a kind of CBeebies version of Top Gear. It’s very disorientating.

Jakob Dylan and Ziggy Marley have both managed lengthy careers and collected some Grammies along the way.

Mmm, festive.

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.