Ooh thanks, I’ll add to the list

Home working daily til around 6pm. It’s exhausting – There’s something very intense about just sitting at your computer all day and video conferencing as oppose to wandering round to someone’s desk for a quick […]

The song in the OP is terrific Colin – agree that Maggie Toal’s vocals are excellent and there is some lovely guitar work too. Thanks for posting, and congrats to Ali both for the music and for what he’s doing rig […]

Precisely – the joy of Womad is always in the discovery of something new, and the audience is the most open minded in that regard that I’ve ever come across.

Lovely review of what sounds like a great weekend. Some wonderful acts there. Salif Keita’s last, and supposedly final, album, was terrific. I agree about Catrin and Seikou – really excellent. Finch is doing all s […]

Jedward? I’m unfamiliar with their oeuvre to be honest but they have excellent hair.

That’s brilliant and rather lovely – I’d never seen it before, and, as you say, well worth watching.

It’s one of my favourite Dylan stories and I still want it to be true.

In answer to Gary’s ‘if you don’t like it why wouldn’t you label it crap?, therein lies the crux of the matter. There is plenty of music I don’t like but I’m perfectly prepared to acknowledge and recognise t […]

Unsurprisingly someone has already done the playlist of songs and artists referenced. Don’t know if he’s got them all or not:

I’m assuming the Tay Bridge reference was a disparaging comment and that he considers it badly rhymed and metred doggerel. I don’t although for sure there are some fairly lazy examples of both. Not unusual in Dyl […]

The reference to Queens Another One Bites the Dust was the one that surprised me. And is the reference to Antichrist a nod to Mr Rotten or am I now starting to see song references in every line even when they’re not there?

Hmm not sure about that. I can’t visit a record shop or a library right now to check this out but surely Elton would be filed under J, just as George Eliot would be under E and David Bowie under B.

One of our daughter set us all up on Kahoot! last night which allows players to compete together on online quizzes. We each chose a topic. Mine was flags and I still bloody lost

Many congratulations Baron! That’s wonderful news. Me, I’m wondering if there’s any chance of being even a Grandad anytime soon..

I know Bob has always been one to bend the facts to suit his song, or a rhyme, but I’m sure he knows that the Moonlight Sonata is in C Sharp minor not F sharp. One for the Dylanologists to pick the bones out of, no doubt.

I’ve had one listen and first impression is it sounds great. A Playlist made up of all the songs and artists listed in it would be a corker. It sounds very much like a sister piece, but better, to his i […]

Some great lists here creating serious envy. Have I missed it or has no one listed Bob Marley and the Wailers? Of course some bastard(s) here will have seen them…

Crikey – which pub and how and why?

No but I have seen Midge Ure – same letter and much the same thing.

What about Jerry Lee Lewis? Do tell.