Paul Chapman, guitarist with UFO from 1978 to 1983, aged 66.

This one. ‘River Man’ by Nick Drake.

It’s placated me many a time, or just made me feel blissful.

The Good @pencilsqueezer even made a piece of art for me based on it. ‘Edges Ebb and Flow’. It’s on h […]

A fine singer and a convivial man by all accounts.

He murdered Prince’s ‘Kiss’ though. Stripped away all its featherlight funk and steamrollered the bloody thing.

I met her very briefly once at a village fayre when I was about 12. She smiled and flashed those eyes at me.

I have loved her passionately since. She was gorgeous.

Unsurprisingly, obviously, so therefore not very interestingly, I always notice just how few cars were on the roads in the backgrounds of most British black and white films made in the 40’s and 5 […]

Tumble dryers. All of the ones I’ve ever used just make things very hot but still wet.

The Cruel Sea

Hobson’s Choice. Brenda de Banzie steals the entire film. ‘C’mon, lad. Get it ovver’

What’s Up, Doc. Madeleine Khan and Kenneth Mars in one of the funniest films ever made.

BBC newsreader Huw Edwards leaning on the desk while presenting. Sit up, man!

And his umming and erring while reading a script you presume he wrote.

He’s got a good barber though.

An unelected adviser is to make a public statement from a podium on Downing Street.

Much like Churchill’s used to do, then. We’ve all seen the black and white newsreel footage. It’s on the. ‘Yest […]

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Jim O’Hendrix.
Status Que?
Wee Wee Wee

The War On Frugs
Mr Feelgood
Sockpile
The Wonkees

He once pulled up next to me in a Maserati at some traffic lights in Maidenhead.

At least I’m 99% certain it was him. I only had a quick glimpse before he blammed off in a flurry of multi-millionaireness l […]

I’ll say. I don’t buy much gear because I’m not in a band and I’m not very good. Strictly a spare room player.

I bought a Mexican made Candy Apple Red Fender Stratocaster in 1998 from Denmark Street for abo […]

I don’t play bass and I haven’t got one.

Nevertheless.

You should get a Fender Jazz because I think they’re wonderful aesthetically pleasing objects.

This guy, Bobby Vega, has got one. He’s good.

There’s a few more that might interest the AW.

‘GBH’ by Ted Lewis is up there. He wrote ‘Jack’s Return Home’ subsequently filmed as Get Carter. GBH, his last novel, is meant to be his masterpiece […]

It is. I used to share a house In London with a lad from Magharafelt. ‘Keep ‘er lit’ was oft heard.

As was, with same meaning, ‘give it some gutty!’* and ‘now we’re sucking diesel!’

* Gutty being a p […]

One of the book threads here some years ago got me into Eric Ambler. ‘Uncommon Danger’ and ‘Journey Into Fear’ are favourites.

Both feature the Ordinary Middle Class British Business Type caught up in intrigu […]

Yes, I saw that.

He wasn’t being sarcastic. It’s all on tape. Even if he was, sarcasm? From the President? Briefing on almost 50000 American deaths?

The immense, colossal, vile prick.