@KDH
Kind of says it all.

@hamlet
Loving your work.
Craft ale and Velvet Underground b-sides indeed.

This is a beauty.
I once saw her do this at a gig, Nottingham Playhouse (unusual venue for a gig, although I have seen the Duckworth Lewis Method there too, but I digress).
It may have been the encore, but it […]

As reviewed by Charles Emerson Winchester the third, S Korea.

@Freddy Steady
Who knows? Sometimes some bands/artists are just right up your street, and you just don’t know why. Like me with several deeply untrendy bands/artists over the decades. Badlands, The Hold Steady, […]

Oooh, I saw Goya Dress supporting Aimee Mann, and I did indeed buy the album.

Another contender for me was the Secret Machines, who supported Interpol at Rock City. They gave away a mini CD to the crowd, and […]

I’ll borrow an old one here, if I may.

My life in 4 words.

“Not very good with numbers.”

With you on Heaven and Hell, always loved Ronnie Dio.

I put the following on another site the other week, to a couple of murmurs of approval.

Ozzy quits Sabbath, the world says “Thats the end of that t […]

Me and @smudger, or smudger and I, whichever one it is, went to see Hal a good while ago.
Duke Special was the support, a couple of years prior to his first album “proper” being released, and we’ve both been big […]

I just haven’t got a clue what to do…

Is that real?

@KDH
Fully agree with the “too many 4 star reviews” line.
Seems that if 50 albums were being reviewed, 1 would be a 3, one a 5, with 48 4s.
I was cancelling my sub in February anyway, so I was part of the […]

As man who works for a bus company for a living, @Junior Wells , you are a very bad man.
It is indeed a bugger to get off when dry.
Your kindred spirits in these local parts still surface now and again.

I suppose that saves me from having to cancel my annual DD next February, which I was going to do. I’ve even set myself a reminder in my calendar.
Last couple of years especially, it was just full of far too many […]

I went to the middle night of the 3, it was the summer I lost my Dad (3 months after, to be precise) and I was struggling a bit. My friend Ange (living in Edinburgh as she still does) accompanied me and […]

I have a Kia Sportage (and have had for nearly 4 years), newest shape, and have been as a certain Mr Shuttleworth often opines, “very happy with my current vehicle”.

It’s not exactly “sporty” but does […]

For God’s sake don’t ask him about his bloody courgettes…

On a related point, Mr Smudger, have you really been there 8 years? I could’ve sworn it was about 3 years ago…

That is a work of genius.

It’s only a flesh wound…