Spotify has ceased to work on my Windows PC. Nothing will get it to work since it last updated itself.
The latest Android update seems to have halved my phone’s battery life and slowed it right down.
Why oh why, […]

Thanks for that. I’ve ordered the Alice Cooper one. Alice Cooper solo and band were such a big thing for me in my youth. I was late to the party due to my age. I was born in 1966 so was too young to really enjoy […]

I liked KD Lang’s MTV Unplugged.

I saw Alice do some stripped down gigs (very little theatrics) two years running at the Astoria in London probably late 1997 and 1998. He was fabulous.

ZZ Top reissued their records with an awful reverbed bass sound. Totally ruining them.

Nothing on BBC website of course.

My old mate Martin did this one a few years back https://youtu.be/mkFhK_V9Ar4

Thanks Rexbrough your excellent mixes have been the soundtrack of my lockdown.

Crikey what a curmudgeonly lot you are. David and Mark’s podcasts and videos have been a huge source of delight throughout the lockdown and back through the years. Are you all just a bit rattled because they’ve […]

Hi Rexbrough, your Mixcloud mixes have been the soundtrack to my lockdown. You have a very appreciative fan here in sunny Sidcup. I love them all.

I Hank Marvinned
We all did
With cricket bats
In front of a mirror
In our bedrooms
After school
I Hank Marvinned
Quite regularly
My mother nearly caught me:
What were you doing?
Nothing Mum
Cricket bat […]

The government doesn’t want us wearing them as they just spent a fortune on facial recognition cameras. Just a thought.

I’ve seen Randy live a couple of times. But in reference to Duco01’s comments about having difficulty seeing him, I had that experience at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. I was in a lovely box with a great view of the […]

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.