Richard Herring’s podcast is really good. especially if you wind through the first 10 minutes where nearly every episode he acts like a 12 year old who’s learned some rude words. Similarly good is Marc Maron’s WTF […]

I thought this Belgian entry for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, that failed to qualify for the competition, had Bond written all over it. https://youtu.be/6DGf9TMehi0 . A mild changing of the words and it could […]

I feel a John Hiatt song coming on…

Mr B played at one of the Word In Your Ear events a few years back.

His website at http://www.martinnewell.co.uk is a little neglected now but has lots of information and he’s very active on Facebook and Twitter. Most of his output is on YouTube and Spotify. There was a documentary film […]

Thanks. The second volume of his autobiography is due any day now.

As Andy Partridge once said ‘I’d give my right arm to be in Def leppard’.

He really seems to be enjoying himself now. I think that’s contagious.

I recommend I Often Dream Of Trains or Jewels For Sophia for the Hitchcock newbie.

I enjoyed her appearance on the Rule Of Three podcast very much. That’s my other favourite podcast by a country mile. They’ve never done a bad one.

I think your review is pretty much exactly how I felt about the London Roundhouse show I went to 2 years ago. Especially the volume bit. But I haven’t stopped playing his live album since and I have tickets to see […]

The Marantz models do have a bit of a bad reputation where it comes to less than perfect discs but that model is quite fancy actually. They’re not cheap and have won all sorts of awards. Can you make a CDR copy […]

Booze is great. Until it isn’t. I love it me. I go dry for the first three months of every year. I associate it with certain activities, music listening and after excercise usually. So I do miss it a bit when I’m […]

I laughed so hard at the reading from Julian Cope’s book that the experience was very similar to the laughing experience described elsewhere in the same cast. Luckily I was at home, and not on the bus, which is […]

I still shudder when I think of his contributions being deleted, as they were.

On the subject of flushing milk down the drain, possibly he was coming from the angle that milk can be very harmful to rivers. Milk can rob water of oxygen and harm fish etc. Or so I have heard. I think we’re […]

Martin Newell, the musician and poet, recently had some of his oldest recordings re-released in the states. It was Burger Records I think who did it. Martin was intrigued as to who would be buying cassettes in […]

When my kids were younger, probably this was late 2000’s we took them to see a guy called Dan Zanes at the Festival Hall in London. His thing was ‘it’s pop gig for the kids’. It was a lot of fun. I’d heard he […]

Tom Waits. Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen).

Martin Newell pointed that song out to me. He rates it very highly. Talking of Martin Newell… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnRaOFkv-NE