Another girl Another Plan

Just watched the Yarde fight. He flattered to deceive against a past-it Kovalev, I thought. And blimey he could do with a trainer/training regime that involves stuff like sparring.

What boxing, Paul? Didn’t know there was any tonight.

These days if you say you like The Nightingales, they arrest you and put you in prison.

Absolutely. Add in ADHD, which he demonstrates in abundance, and you’ve a pathology comorbidity of the worst sort.

I just checked the track listing for that Cherry Red comp. So many winsome indie one-off classics.

Hardly known at the time, but another 80s cracker that shoulda woulda coulda but didn’t…

What a great song Kardomah Cafe is. I remember visiting the branch of the coffee bar in Liverpool which, presumably what with them being Merseysiders, it relates to. And the internet now tells me that their […]

It’ll be this….

House Of Love are/were my pick for this. Covers of all the music papers when it still just about mattered, and a number one eel Festive Fifty (Destroy The Heart), but now forgotten.

And as it turned out, a single pitch perfect punch turned the whole thing around…

Boxing’s my toppermost sport, and when there is a dominant character – right now that’d be Vasily Lomachenko, a lightweight who has moves none’s seen before and that opponents and many viewers only see when […]

Everybody Dance

I love Garfield’s The Wrestling. One of the most evocative oral histories around, and so much more than just about the ‘ask him ref, ask him’ game. Les Kellett. Wow.

William Shakespeare?

It should be, but listen again, if you dare. She ain’t singing ‘bird’.

First record I ever owned, but what the jiggins is she singing? Is it ‘Little baby bird/dove/don’??

It’s a great graphic novel. As is her follow up Arr You My Mother.

Kansas – Steve Walsh

Lieutenant Pigeon – Hilda Woodward