By heck I would have bet that either 1 or 2 was by the Roches….. just as well I never took up career as a professional gambler.

I’d heard a very poor bootleg of Hadestown recorded at the Chapel in London, l […]

@lemonhope / @bogart / @pizon-bros / @stellarx

1) Absent Father (Letter from a Falklands Veteran) – Harp and a Monkey
A soldier is sent to the Falklands conflict and as a result his whole m […]

And last on the door mat was @lemonhope, apologies for the delay but I’ll use the excuse of Christmas and the New Year for my tardiness in finishing the review.

1) Acapella to start and most enjoyable it is, a […]

Next envelope on the mat was from @stellarx

Track 1 Long synth note then a big drum beat lead into a rather pedestrian ‘rock-pop’ song, when it goes duh-de-do it sounds like something from either The B 52’ […]

Bugger. I ummed and t’other over is it a re-issue, in the end I reasoned, well yes technically it’s a re-issue but…but it was originally under Paddy M’s moniker and it’s now been released as a Prefab Sprout […]

Anna Meredith – Fibs

Would have been in the original list but I’ve only streamed it so far and I stuck to things that I’d bought physical copies of.

By heck @Baron Harkonnen I thought I’d probably be the only person on here to a) have Harp and a Monkey in my best off b) and would have bet Simon’s harp on me being the only person to have Victorians as my number 1 ….

1) Harp and a Monkey – Victorians
2) Sarahy Korwar – More Arriving
3) Jeffrey Lewis and the Voltage – Bad Wiring
4) Richard Dawson – 2020
5) Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars
6) Ezra Furman – 12 Nudes
7) […]

@thecheshirecat which folk club is it you’ll be hoping to have them back too?

@Stellarx no apologies required, I enjoyed you honest review. As I have mentioned in in a reply to Lemmonhope, I feel that the worst thing anybody can say about music is ’ yeah, it’s err OK’. I believe music […]

Thanks to @Lemonhope for a entertaining fair and honest review, one that made me both laugh and gnash my teeth, on one occasion both at the same time.

First lets address No8, I admit I put this on the disc to […]

With holidaying and retiring from work ( I would to listen to music on the commute) I’ve been a bit tardy in finding time to listen and reviewing so apologies folks @Pizon-bros @lemonhope @stellarx.

First […]

Acting

Saw it in Didsbury last night, @niallb sums it up to a ‘t’.

Just a couple of thoughts.
Interesting to note that Bruce ( we are on first name terms) said words to the effect that he see’s this album in the […]

There’s a big change coming up in Nov for me, so it would be rude not to welcome it with some Change songs….count me in please

Oh forgot to say that like him… unlike Marmite.

Same song but a more entertaining ‘film’

And more Jackie… this time with Ralph McTell

Jackie Leven and his dalliances with Joan and Tilda…. oh and Patsy as well