All I can say @contraryarticle is anybody who puts Sparklehorse on a compilation well it wouldn’t matter if your a martian-martian or even an abominable snowman in the supermarket your musical taste in music […]

By heck Ret @retropath2 was my selection last time that bad!!!

Rude not too.

Apropos nothing of the live album but t’do with Ms R.
It’s 1976 me and Peter ( something…surname long forgotten) shared a desk in Geography class, we both shared a great thirst for music, my ELP crush and his […]

As a glory hunting Manchester Untied supporter ( first two games I went to at OT we lost 1 – 4, first season I started going regularly we got relegated ) it’s those first couple of years that for me still […]

The first 5 SLF albums can be bought from Amazon as a box set for £10.99 …… bargain

Remember the review of the album in NME ( or was it Sounds…more like NME I think) claiming that it was the greatest punk record ever made. After such (possible) hyperbole the actual music would have to go some […]

I had the single, it was Yorkie shaped and Yorkie coloured and godam awful…

Nice review puts the album in a nutshell, yet If this was e-bay or such like I’d have to give you only 98% positive feedback, I’d have to knock a couple of % because :-

a) for me Patti S vocal’s sound […]

Ginger Nuts – Mick Hucknell

well I tried it just for once found it all right for kicks.
but now I found out that it’s a habit that sticks…..

As Mud almost sang …”that’s white that’s white that’s white that’s white’s I really love to join in”

.And so does Mrs Bogart.

And of course with this being the being the Afterword blog nobody would think of anything of other than continued contributions to the blog, none of that double entendre stuff on here, eh….

And there goes December, lights and decorations are down, there’s only 3 weeks of Turkey leftovers remaining to be eaten and the New Year Resolutions have already bit the dust.

Except one.
In truth there w […]

A yard … a sort of street…. based on a Lancashire dialect poem written by a Yorkshire man about a place (now) in Cheshire. Oh and that big silhouetted head on the left is me and it’s Mrs B next to me.

Buzzcocks – Oh Sheet

Harp and a Monkey – Clean White Sheets (The Nellie Spindler Song)

It could (probably will) change about over time…after more listens some maybe will be not as good once the newness wears off…. or some will suddenly making sense …

Half Man Half Buscuit – No Cares A […]

True Love Stories – Jilted John
The Beatles – The Beatles
Village Green etc – The Kinks

@retropath2
Forever delayed. Better late. And not before time. Etc etc etc.

Apologies for delay, first the CD went into the Nissan garage for around 7 weeks as they tried to get us to pay £7k to get it back. […]