Lovely to hear the lad say words and that.

A great ‘cast. More of the AW’ers please

The Undertones ‘Jimmy, Jimmy’

One of the great pop riffs.

(if that lad still has that beautiful Les Paul it will be worth thousands now)

Good God. Records from 1979. I was 15.

I’m nearly crying. There are a few madeleines here.

Do what I did just now and check him out on YouTube. He looks like Noel Gallagher.

Is Ken Goodwin still going?

That’s a splendid review.

I’ve said this innumerable times here and elsewhere, I never ‘got’ Hancock until I met and befriended someone, another lad my age, who behaved just like him. Constantly thwarted, […]

Ooooooooooooooooh, etc.

Yes, me too. I used to work in Reading and would hear ‘a’ Concorde biffing off to NYC at 11am every week day.

‘That’ll be me one day’ I thought. And lo! It wasn’t.

I went up to the Fish Counter in Sainsbury’s the other day.

‘Well, how many have you got?’ , I said.

They didn’t get it either

Aircraft were my interest as a kid, up and until about the age of 13 when they were usurped by Fender Telecasters and the sounds they made.

I was fascinated by the engineering miracle. Tons of metal suspended in […]

That was some machine right there.

North American P-51 Mustang

Hawker Hurricane.

Always my Airfix (and air fix) of choice

He’s 2 weeks younger than me.

I don’t have a side-parting. And I’m not a ****

It was Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash, to be clear. No doubt the lass was affronted it wasn’t the Colin H approved official version.

Mrs Beezer regularly drops me in the clarts re. pub and charity quizzes, nominating me to join quiz teams populated by amateurs and civilians. ‘He knows a lot about music. He made me go and see The Wishbone Ash. […]

Well, quite. It’s a bitter wind that swirls around the tors and glaciers of these god-forsaken home counties. We’re always finding comedians bodies outside Waitrose released by the floes during the thaw. […]

Our local arts centre is a marvellous little venue. Lots of tribute bands play there, big name comedians often use it as warm up try out place for new tours, and every so often a bit of proper quality plays a gig […]

I’ve rarely enjoyed the sound quality at the RAH gigs I’ve been to. At the front downstairs and up in the gods at the back. Consistently mediocre.

I do recall seeing Mark Knopfler there in the early 2000’s […]

I’ve just remembered. Both of the UFO programmes I bought were in fact laid out as calendars. A band photo and a month across a double page.

Perhaps not that pointless. Mind, expecting a lad in his […]

I rarely bought the t-shirt, which is a far more practical item all round. I seemed determined to waste money.