One of those comedians that always used to pitch up on Hawksbee and Jacobs eschewed the usual conversation about a favourite football team to talk about his love of County Championship cricket, in particular going […]

Am I right in thinking that the “double LP, first disc Half Speed Mastered at Abbey Road audiophile pressing” Who release is It’s Hard from 1982?

Oh dear, if junior’s buying that, the Kids Most-Certainly “Aren’t” […]

“Neither Tottenham or Arsenal will win anything next season.”

You’re right, it’s a really good feeling this positivity lark.

Also, cinema.
In London I probably went to two or three films a year.

Now, living close to an independent, which plays quirky material and regularly screens older films (something I could never understand cinemas […]

Don’t think so… no one (his parents, his school, his university, his employers – all f****wits) have ever said “no” to him. I would have done.

I think the insanity rests with any member of the public who […]

It’s all Johan Neeskens and Johan Cryuff to me.

The trick is to play the ones that aren’t venerated but, crucially, also where the guy still believes in some kind of melody – the thing, in his own autobiography, he considers to be his greatest talent.

e.g. […]

The more money I spend on a sporting event, the less I will like it.

Such matches usually involve:
1. all-seater stadiums,
2. queues,
3. difficulty in getting to the venue, and,
4. having to sit next to […]

I’m European.
Admitting to being English in 2022 is simply too embarrassing.
I’ll say I’m Irish if anyone asks – mumble something about Cork or Kinsale. Kinsale’s a bit like Leigh-on-Sea, it’s on the coast, it’s […]

If that is a thinly-veiled contempt I detect Lynch holds for Johnson et al – and fan boys like Madeley and Morgan – I like it… and it is an attitude Starmer would be well-advised to adopt himself, and very soon.

If he was a Likely Lad, I’d know about it.

It’s more “likely” he’s a 60s-dodging-crock-o-shite.

“Outsourcing”… oh dear…

Gotta be time for a Zappa Special courtesy of Mojo of Uncut?

His one, published in 2010, was easily the best I’ve seen and since then a quick look at the Zappa website indicates that there have been 37 further releases!

I feel like Dougal in Father Ted when, at the end of the Pat Mustard episode, he declares:
“She was in the nuddy!”

There’s a pop chart?!!!!
Who knew?
Draw us a map!

No offence to the Wuthering Heights hit-maker, […]

Did you see the Sex Pistols? They’re the benchmark, yeah?

Metro have got a piece on Paul up-and-running right now and he is “the Hey Jude hitmaker!”

Never seen any of them. It’s for dodgers.

Around the time of the first one, for some reason it was always considered a good idea (actually by parents – God knows why) that we should all go to the cinema once in […]

All men aren’t they?
Presumably the traffickers will now focus more on women and children. Smaller – so fit more aboard – so – a Brucie (or, should that be, a Priti) Bonus!
“You don’t get anything for a pair, not […]

A great player, a great, great player, once that team hung up their boots I drifted away from the sport.
Will Carling et al seemed, and still do, small beer.

About the number of caps won – in the English R.F.U. […]

I’m going through that Uncut Special from a few years ago. 600 60s albums. The weirder (and blacker) the better.
The weirdest so far was New Grass by Albert Ayler.

Three minutes of saxophone which sounds like a […]