Also, a camel walks into a bar and asks for a pint of larger. The barman says ‘I’m sorry sir, we don’t serve camels here.’ The camel looks down the bar and spots two other camels enjoying their pints. ‘What a […]

Variation: A horse walks into a bar and says to the barman “I’d like a pint of lager please”. The barman says “Why the long face?”

A celebrated Brass Section joke: What’s the difference between an orchestra and a bull? With a bull, the horns are at the front and the arsehole’s at the back.

What do you call a male actor with three pieces of wood on his head? Edward Woodward.

What’s black and white and hides in caves? A zebra that owes money.

Don’t tell me your misgivings No ‘to be or not to be’ Cos I don’t have no trouble living It’s just dying that bothers me

‘But of course nowadays…’

They certainly came among the audience during a long and intense Soldier In The Army of the Lord when I saw them but didn’t – that I saw – stage dive to get there. And there was no balcony at that little Marquee i […]

Magic and Loss is terrific record., the band and arrangements pulled right back. The opening track’s long list of incongruous combinations (bacon and ice cream etc) always hits when he reveals he’s actually tal […]

Glad you enjoyed. Saw them almost 15 years ago in the small, then new Marquee club in Islington. Genuinely barnstorming, one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to, an absolute orgy of fervour.

$300m? I don’t even know a single Kiss song. And they look daft. They’ll be having four separate biopics next I expect.

I’ve seen him a geeky number of times and the bad sound is usually when he and the band go hammer and tongs on some oldies in the ‘everything louder than everything else’ credo so beloved of, er, Lemmy. EC’s […]

Slightly shocked at the affection for ver Snake here but it’s a good moment to confess that my first gig was the earliest version of this combo at the Lyceum in 78 – persuaded my mum to take me for my 13th b […]

For this song can we now use the phrase ‘their best since Let It Bleed’?!

At school they’d show us a Man From Uncle film at the end of Summer term, in the main hall, on 16mm, the headmaster changing the reels. The boys (for it was a boys prep school) all shouted during the inevitable g […]

I loved Rough and Rowdy Ways but think that throughout his career he’s often gone for the first easy rhyme that came into his often doped head, which hardcore fans optimistically imagine is some profound j […]

Congrats – a podcast of great distinction: informative, fun, profound and hilarious on a subject upon which we all agree is worth musing upon.

A great listen, thanks all.

Tough if you’ve a residual fondness for the Young Vic theatre and early 70s bonkers and ridiculously ambitious happenings there. Though all I actually saw there myself was Pete’s pretty awful iron Man ada […]

Saw him live at Hammersmith Odeon around Living in the Love of Common. People time. Mari Wilson was sat in front of me, I saw little and what I did was pretty tacky.