I suppose it counts as Americana, but I love this by Rhiannon Giddens. The end is devastating. Like all good short stories, it leaves you filling in all that isn’t said. Julie oh Julie Won’t you r […]

Christina Rossetti wrote a poem called “A Christmas Carol”. Holst and Darke wrote little tunes for it and it has done quite well as “In the Bleak Mid-winter”. Blake wrote a very long poem called Jerusal […]

Really enjoying Vieux Farka Toure on West Holts Stage.

How about Doris Day’s By The Light of the Silvery Moon: I want to spoon To my honey, I’ll croon love’s tune Though these days you’re supposed to have a wooden Honey Dipper rather than a metal spoon but it […]

Technically, the last music I listened to was a dreadful bit of musak on a loop whilst on hold this afternoon. No idea what it was, nor do I want to. It was a bit piercing at times and generally unpleasant all […]

Sorry. We’ve tickets for the Oysters, our only Ham evening gig of the week. Enjoy your concert.

Thank you for your post OP. Hope you’re enjoying Sidmouth as much as we are.

I can remember a rave review in NME for Motörhead’s Ace of Spades. Is it from that?

I’m drinkin’ water tonight cos I drank all the whiskey this mornin’ Drank the whiskey this mornin’ cos my baby she ain’t comin home. Sarah Shook – Dwight Yoakam

Back in the early 80’s, the great Zaheer Abbas was one of the first batsmen to score 1,000 first class runs in the cricket season. After he posted yet another century, The Guardian headline was: “Happy Day, Zah […]

3. Born in or around Wigan

My Dad retired, as a teacher, in the August before he turned 60 in the December. He then had 30 years of retirement, though Alzheimer’s gradually diminished his final decade. Thanks to their superannuated t […]

I remember reading an interview with a photographer of the famous; I think it might have been Eve Arnold. She was walking down the street with her subject, Miss Monroe. She was surprised that nobody seemed to […]

Propaganda kick off A Secret Wish with Edgar Allen Poe: “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream”.

Nick Mulvey’s Cucurucu is basically DH Lawrence’s Piano with a few extra twiddles.

Of course, […]

Blondie?

4 Grace Jones?

Another cod war?

That’ll be good. We lost the first three to Iceland. As we were constantly reminded when on holiday there 30 years ago.

I should be in the first group to receive the vaccine and I can’t wait. MrsG is jealous that I’ll get it first.

Lou Reed has “circumlocution” in ‘There is no time’.

They also used” Holimakittiloukachichichi” in a song for our times but I think they made it up.