Or bright green, or yellow, or orange, or magenta, or…….

I have very little interest in sport generally and I actively dislike the tribalism that team games generate, particularly football with its persistent undercurrent of violence and yobbish behaviour. I can […]

Closet Portaloo fan here too. I always enjoyed the Continental Railway Journeys more than the various other iterations, and his European travel programmes for Channel 5 have been even better. He’s never quite s […]

It’s like the old adage that says rugby and prog rock are both played by men with funny shaped balls.

I’ve always thought that too @dai, probably because when played live the songs have a much fuller band sound rather than the electronic bells and whistles with which they were recorded.

I was a key worker during the first lockdown and remember driving along eerily empty roads at what had been rush hour. It was a beautiful spring, warm, sunny and very very quiet. Normally shy wildlife began […]

Wow! Did Michael Stipe just get seriously upstaged?

Ooh that’s good. They’re like a proper band with real guitars ‘n’ stuff, and a Michael Stipe soundy-likey. Will give the whole album a listen.

Accelerate and Collapse into Now are both decent albums which would have made more sense if they had been released after New Adventures. There’s an excellent interview (below) in which the band addresses again t […]

As I’ve noted on here before, my enjoyment of reading was severely dented by the pretentious claptrap I endured over the 3 years of an English Literature degree. The first forays into literature at school were a […]

The 1860s are hugely overrated.

I created a BlueSky account for about 10 minutes, thought better of it and deleted it. A couple of weeks ago I finally deleted the Facebook account I have had for 15 years. I was tired of unsuitable content […]

Love the MCC songs on Looking for the Thread. A new album really is overdue.

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‘Love and democracy reigns in the USA and the world’. Good ol’ Neil. Gotta love his optimism.

The whole of that post should be on an Afterword t-shirt.

Two of my retirement challenges have badly faltered. I intended a leisurely read of all of Shakespeare’s plays, having been force fed two thirds of them at breakneck speed while at university many eons ago. H […]