Bod Dylan is at his worst when he’s at his most hagiographic. Lenny Bruce for example

Wonder how long it took him to come up with lines like
‘He was an outlaw, that’s for sure
More of an outlaw than you ever were’

I like Galway to Graceland, and I love Waltzing’s for Dreamers which I guess you might put in the same category. But I do agree about the cheap shot character assassinations. Here Comes Geordie is my particular bete noire…

It’s a fascinating question. But for me the answer to the question is an emphatic ‘no’. If anything music means even more to me than ever. But I listen differently. In my late teens or early twenties I liste […]

Good man yourself; must say it seemed out of character. Hope you’re Ok – and don’t be a stranger.

Another Labour voter turning to the Lib Dem’s this time. Farage is clearly going to be the biggest party, and it feels most important in this election to rack up unambiguous ‘Remain’ votes to avoid him claim […]

Tokenism? Snowflakes? Ye Gods. This is such a repellent post that I can only hope it is intended but failing to be some sort of ironic satire. As someone whose daughter thinks Nadiya is brilliant, and who suffers […]

Thanks for the review and drawing attention to this – a must buy for sure. Agree with everyone – Rory was a fantastic guitarist, a wonderfully generous live performer (was lucky enough to see him twice in his pomp […]

This guy, who perhaps should get out more, has some interesting theories about Eurovision winners, and some of the (musical) reasons the UK does so badly. Most winners are in a minor key, and we keep entering with […]

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I agree he has the right to hold that view @SteveT but I don’t think anyone can complain about people piling in to criticise it. He obviously holds strong views about Israel which is fine, but that doesn’t exc […]

Well, yes. But if you’re going to say in public that the number of Holocaust Jewish victims has been deliberately exaggerated and imply that it wasn’t quite as bad as all that because more Roma were killed per hea […]

Well, this is a surprise. Thus far I seem to be either a dangerous radical who knows his own mind and refuses to follow the crowd, or, well, just weird…..

Red sauce all the way. And artisan sour dough bread, obviously

A mate and I used to go to the Liverpool Everyman as callow 17 year olds when she was in the company alongside Pete Postlethwaite, Bill Nighy, and Mathew Kelly. Nighy couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag but i […]

Welcome back! We’ve lost some good people along the way (especially just over a year ago after one particularly egregious thread), but there’s plenty of life in the old dog yet.

Yes, they’re not getting my vote this time, but I’m hanging on in there – there’s nothing the extreme faction would like more than all the moderates to leave in despair so they can play their student polit […]

Theresa Griffin is an excellent MEP, committed to Europe and a sensible Labour Party. I’d love to vote for her, but right now I don’t believe her party’s leadership has earned that vote. It’s a damn shame.

Exactly. All the coverage I heard led with the Conservatives disastrous loss before going on to say that Labour also had a terrible night. Which they manifestly did. To actually lose seats when the Tories are […]

I look at my North West voting slip, and am still deeply conflicted. Labour are a mess on Brexit. Corbyn is shockingly inept. The failure to deal with anti-Semitism is a stain on a party that is supposed to stand […]

As he said when he came on stage first time I saw him – ‘Let’s ballad!’…

No, but I do remember once having to pull over onto the hard shoulder because I was laughing so much at his phone in I couldn’t drive safely. It was either the famous George Heslop’s wig story, or the time som […]