Listening –
I haven’t heard much new stuff this year, but June was a bit of a bumper month with new releases from four favourites. Gretchen Peters’s Mickey Newbury tribute album was much better than I dared hop […]

No Rockin’ In The Free World?

Most of this thread sounds double Dutch to me, but decent streamed sound you say? Look no further than the Marantz NA6006. I’ve tried to upload a picture, but that whole Imgur thing doesn’t seem to work any mor […]

Well I thought Ghosts wasn’t half bad, the best thing Steve Earle has done for a while. Certainly way better than his half-hearted duets album with Shawn Colvin, and streets ahead of the execrable Terraplane. On t […]

My own trajectory into music, like yours Mr Badger, was helped significantly by ABBA’s Arrival. There was a Radio 1 interview to launch the album, possibly with Richard Skinner, during which a number of tracks w […]

I’ve just checked and it’s a 99.78% possibility.

If you’re really stumped for ideas I can supply my bank account details.

To be fair, Elton has always been his own comedy tribute act.

Spot on. Deluded to the last.

Clapforboris sounds a bit harsh to me. I wouldn’t wish the clap on anyone.

I am in an occupation that makes me a key worker, but have been restricting my social interaction to travelling to and from work, and nothing else for the last 2 weeks. Yesterday I went to my local pharmacy out of […]

This is a very tough interview to listen to but it is absolutely essential that you do, wherever you are in the world. #coronavirus https://t.co/CvN7M1FaCm

— Hugh Bonneville #FlattenTheCurve (@hughbon) March 20, 2020

I keep reminding myself that Coronavirus is not the bubonic plague, and that our parents and grandparents went through much worse during WWII – however it is scary. I chatted to a work colleague today who told me […]

Poopers at the Gates of Dawn maybe?

Another vote for the fabulous Johnnie Walker and Roger Scott. I used to like Richard Skinner too back in the day. As for those who make my toes curl, they really are too numerous to mention – Dave Lee Travis (I […]

If I’m ever on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, I will know exactly how to feel.

Okay, so you can prove anything with a few figures……but what the hell have we done?

I’ve heard the Bonny Light Horseman album a couple of times and it’s not bad, but there are some other gems on this month’s Uncut CD including Ian Noe, whose album Between The Country came out last year. It’s […]

Sadly I recognised all the names, but the face that Kenny Rogers is sporting these days doesn’t seem to be recognisable as his….

I like Simon & Garfunkel so buying the Uncut special was a bit of a no-brainer. My local WH Smith’s had about a dozen copies which seemed wildly optimistic. It’s a decent read, which I mainly bought for the len […]