Great stuff! I especially like The Last Time I Saw Annie. Show don’t tell done brilliantly.

Done. Regular visitor, but The Clash had more hits than I’ve had contributions this last couple of years. I keep meaning to remedy that; maybe this’ll be the spur. And thanks aplenty to the mods and all contributors.

I saw them in 1979, and as has been pointed out above, recall a handful of really decent tunes, and a tight live show. But I found them unlovable. This was partly due to Ian Page’s surly approach to interviews in […]

When Elvis starts the ‘uh dontcha know’ s in Suspicious Minds. When Marc Bolan starts the ‘yeah yeah yeahs’ towards the end of Metal Guru

That’ll be Olga from The Toy Dolls on guitar, punching below and above his weight, so to speak.

Mick Jagger on ‘You’re So Vain’, which I didn’t twig for years, but once aware, it’s always there.

My immediate thought, too!

Yin yoga’s my favourite yoga variety. I see it as the dub reggae to the Bikram drum n bass types, ie holding poses for several minutes, and feeling the increase in flexibility as the time goes by.

Pilates, the great corrective. I forgot to mention that it’s part of my regime, too. Love it.

I’m just back from the gym, having done an interval session using the Concept2 rower, followed by the SkiErg (also made by the Concept2 folks), the stationary bike, and the cross trainer. I do something along […]

It really is a cracker, Slade In Flame, isn’t it? I had the soundtrack at the time (signed too, won it in a Metro Radio competition) but never saw the film (I was 10).

Possibly Chadwick’s worst lyric. ‘You’re not a bangle’ to rhyme with ‘angle’ is piss-poor, but then he tops it all with the final line: ‘You shit on them’ And yep, TB’s guitar is as limpidly beautiful as ever […]

As ever with @gardener ‘s mixes, the non-music inserts are beautifully apposite. If it weren’t so devalued by overuse I’d say ‘curated’, or maybe even nudge into ‘mise en scene’. Great stuff, any road.

I listened to an hour of this last night. Thank you so much, @gardener – brilliantly constructed, magnifique.

Great work, Niall. My oldest pal is 24 years sober, and has had quite the journey, culminating in becoming a dad for the first time in his late 50s. Incidentally, I waited and waited to see the downside, any […]

Thank you so much for those two hours, Ian. Best wishes to you and your wife.

Cheers for that, Steve. Weller in the most affable mood I’ve ever heard, and genuinely tickled by the jingles (calm down!) Maybe being away from the liberal metropolitan elite brought about the jocularity.

Great stuff. And a joy to see reference to young Tyler Dibling, whose Man of the Match interview after the draw with Brighton was like Billy Elliott’s Royal Ballet audition in reverse. The ‘electricity’ had alrea […]

Roy Keane? Whilst this could be viewed through a ‘Bantz’ lens, I do love the final 20 seconds.

I find Five Live’s Monday Night Club to be the perfect balance of the old and new. It’s even caused me to like Chris Sutton. And Rory Smith, what a wonderful fellow.