Their melodic pop instincts run deep in Liverpool – you can hear it in any number of bands like The Zutons, The Boo Radleys, Lightning Seeds, The Coral and many more

Neil Finn is his own songwriter, and a great one too, but for sure he carries McCartney and Lennon with him

One of any number of artists I’ve seen drop a Beatles song into their set when doing a gig in Liverpool – but the only one I’ve seen choose Cry Baby Cry.

Worth bearing in mind that much of the exhibition material was provided by Yoko and the whole thing put together with her – so it was never going to have a critical or sceptical perspective, and, yes, was always […]

Dammit – that’s where I’m going wrong….

I never look at those stats. So imagine how thrilled I am to discover that my modest, and modestly commented on, post on the obituary of Norman Stone is neck and neck with a thread on the Fabs for toppermost of […]

It’s the middle of the night and having woken up I couldn’t get back to sleep. That thread has done the job nicely. ‘ Night, all.

Many apologies- not quite sure why in using the edith function I appear to have posted this not once, not twice but thrice…

Sticking to stuff I’ve read recently:

Page turner

I’m not sure I’d call them page turners exactly but I’ve enjoyed of what I’ve read from the 2018 Booker shortlist more than the shortlist for a number of […]

Sticking to stuff I’ve read recently:

Page turner

I’m not sure I’d call them page turners exactly but I’ve enjoyed of what I’ve read from the 2018 Booker shortlist more than the shortlist for a number of years. […]

Sticking to stuff I’ve read recently:

Page turner

I’m not sure I’d call them page turners exactly but I’ve enjoyed of what I’ve read from the 2018 Booker shortlist more than the shortlist for a number of years. […]

Well that looks splendid. Some I know, many I don’t – looking forward to having a listen.

The centre of consciousness of the human universe according to Allen Ginsberg. Mind you, as Brian Patten said, Ginsberg basically considered wherever he was at any time to be the centre of consciousness of the […]

I’ll get my titfer…..

You’ll have a great time. Even without the Beatles stuff it’s a fantastic city to wander around in. Plenty of decent restaurants and pubs these days as well. You’ve done the right thing in booking the Natio […]

The hats thing is a brilliant idea. I’ll go for Tom Petty, Rickie Lee Jones and and Richard Thompson (I’m assuming berets count)….

Good grief, so it is. Not sure if that makes it better or worse….

I bow to no one in my admiration of Bob Dylan as one of the greatest writers of our time. And I love ‘Don’t Think Twice’. But every time I hear this grammatical infelicity, written purely to serve a rhyme, it b […]

That’ll be Sam Llanas. I’m with the prefects on this one, I think the backing vocal is fine. The official video (can’t seem to post the link for some reason) is utterly terrible however, featuring our Robbie tryin […]

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