Into the Music
St Dominic’s Preview
Common One
Moondance
Beautiful Vision

Avalon Sunset was very close.

Karl Wallinger / World Party
Jason Lytle / Grandaddy
Lorde

Orville’s Song by Orville. (And Keith Harris).

I saw Echo & the Bunnymen reimagining their songs at the Sage in May. It was the only gig I’ve ever been to where I’ve been desperate to leave after the first twenty minutes. Apart from Mansun at Newcastle Uni in 1999.

Until today I never knew anyone who thought that lengthening the White Album would be a good idea.

The three greatest albums of the Noughties:

The Sophtware Slump – Grandaddy
Fearless – Taylor Swift
Heartbreaker – Ryan Adams

I love The Doors. They have better albums, but this is the one I listen to most.

Idly flicking through my old Crack-a-Joke book recently (all us kids had it in 1981) I spotted that one of the contributors was a M.Giedroyc from Leatherhead.

Thanks BC – I’ve had no occasion to drop this […]

You can widen that out to Pentumvirate, if there is such a word (there isn’t). Whitney, George, Prince, Jacko. They’ve all gone.

PS top five:

Ray of Light
Like a Prayer
Crazy for You
Cherish
Borderline

Oh God, yes, IKEA.

There are two situations in life when I am guaranteed to row with Mrs H. One is putting the Christmas tree up. The other is going to IKEA, missing the turn off at least three times in a row, […]

I’ve refused to listen on point of principle since the producers pushed Nigel off the roof .

But I always liked Brian. He’s a card isn’t he?

Ending 2016 by listening to Teenage Fanclub’s “Here” over and over again made me remember that Gerry Love has always written their greatest songs. A bit of googling told me that he had released an album under the […]

These are two average teams. If only Stokes was there……..

An opportunity to say for the first time today that I second you.

Is it safe for me to admit on here that I cry whenever I watch DIY SOS?

His book on Dad’s Army is also very good, if you can call a book about a TV show an autobiography. Which you can’t.

I dunno. I suspect it could be considered dangerously modern.

I was idly flicking through the Guinness Book of Hit Singles 1996 last night and had several 80s-related surprises.

Did you know that Dignity by Deacon Blue only got to No.31 in the charts?
Or that INXS only […]

To be fair, as the post of BBC Cricket Correspondent is probably the most important job in the world, I’m more than happy with what Aggers gets paid.

Is it too late to throw Jimmy the Hoover into the ring?