Wonderful. These guys have clearly been listening to Steely Dan.

I think that anyone new to Sonos needs to know that the operating system has recently been updated to ‘Sonos’ 2 (from ‘1’, surprisingly) and many new products are ‘2nd generation’.

I found some of my ‘1st gen […]

Yes I have one connected to relatively inexpensive smart TV and can recommend it.

There is no comparison with the output via the TV built-in speakers which are rubbish. The Beam adds depth and projection. If […]

I hope you’ve not bid on a Bros. CD?

Correct. They are indeed ‘nutters’.

‘It’s great to be here, wherever we are, and if we’ve been here before it’s great to be back’. Fairly common parlance methinks, but when heard from a drunken John Martyn it was hilarious.

Oh, I thought it was down to patriotism, consumers engaging with a homegrown brand. Nowt more English than a bottle o scrumpy.

Tudor is indeed the sister company to Rolex and yes, they employ ETA movements – one of the reasons they are the less expensive marque.

What is surprising when Rolex cannot keep up with demand Rolex will also […]

In fact, I travelled to London the day before the official release of the first Rainbow album. Before going to whatever megastore to burn my pennies, I visited my usual record store haunts in Soho and to my […]

This strikes a chord and by sheer coincidence the same two bands – Purple and The Dan.

Here is a related curio. In the ‘70’s I lived in Croydon, then in Surrey and now regarded, more or less, as an ext […]

Eddy wuz robbed of course. It is the only ‘new’ album I purchased in 2020 and it remains a belter.

For most of the last year I’ve wallowed around in the back catalogues of Joni, John Martyn and The Dan/F […]

Fanfare of Strumpets?

I thought you might dip in here, Moose. Do you ever think of anything else other than religion?

NI May have benefitted from the Brexit agreement in so much that it is still closely aligned with the EU and will, hopefully, prosper from that relationship.

I recently had a conversation with an ageing, […]

Very best wishes to you all, you loveable rockers on the best place on ver net.

It has been the most challenging year of my life and this is probably true for many of us, our families and loved ones.

Here’s h […]

No, Beatles Band got there first.

But I do remember whenever a fight broke out at Dicey’s – and there were plenty – we would abruptly stop whatever we were playing and launch into ‘Losing My Religion’. By the […]

I have stood on the Dicey Riley’s stage many times, blasting out tunes with my fellows musicians whilst witnessing riots and carnage below us.

The band just played on.

I am increasingly convinced you are a spy sent here by those chaps at The Quietus representing (or masquerading more like) as one of their tasteful, influential, more informed agents attempting to expose us all as […]

Mike, I hope you are sitting down, as you will be delighted to learn there is now a roundabout just outside Aberporth.

That’s great, isn’t it?

I am sure homelessness has existed in some degree in the UK forever and, obviously, is on the increase. Why?

I was first struck by the sheer scale of homelessness’ in Miami in the mid nineties. In a very warm c […]