Picture the scene …
The dire 1980s; 1986 to be exact.

I’m sitting outside a pub on an errand for my boring (one-year) job in insurance … not so bad though that I didn’t have the occasional “jolly” to the City on […]

Many Stones’ songs don’t have only one good bit but do have one defining/revelatory bit …
The guitar break right at the end of “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.”
The saxophone break in the middle of “Honky Tonk W […]

Dire 1980s. I was talking about Kiss.
I can’t write dire 1980s without putting the word dire before the dire 1980s.
See! It’s impossible.
I could do totally shite.
Let’s try.
The totally shite dire 1980s.
Arrrggghhhh!

“Record Collector” c. 2019 seems to be a shopping list for really expensive stuff that isn’t particularly interesting. Guitars mainly.
The prices of the truly woeful Kiss memorabilia in this month’s issue were […]

Has any other act milked one album more than The Who have milked TWO albums – “Tommy” and “Quadrophenia?”

If, every three years, McCartney had revisited Sgt. Pepper’s or Abbey Road, consistently over 47 years, […]

We’ve found something Tone can do – Jolly good.
30 year old teachers? I could have guessed. My cup runneth over.
They must only know one Byrds song, one Buffalo Springfield song, and, at most, 3 Bob Dylan […]

Yes, which is really late.
Truro City have just arranged their first pre-season friendly for Friday, 5th July.

Busy day, but I did catch the first quarter-of-an-hour.
Sri Lanka 3 runs for 2 wickets.
Skipped merrily on my way.
Came back.
Doh!!!

That’s right. I think Sri Lanka may have had a few of those as well.
Let’s just say the cricket season is all over the place. Either ridiculously early or ridiculously late!

I always go back to London for […]

I know it’s a World Cup year but the Summer Tests seem to be getting later and later.

First Test this year – 1st August. That’s two days before the first Saturday of League football.
Geoffrey Boycott made his […]

“The duck, Fawlty?”

Good idea. I’ve got that one.

As they hurtle ever closer to having another dire 1980s Eton and Oxbridge schoolboy to lead them (by “they” and “them,” I mean the Tory Party members initially, and ultimately, and almost inevitably, the great […]

In the same boat … A&M Sessions, Safe as Milk, Strictly Personal, Mirror Man … might try and listen to Trout Mask Replica the other way around, Sides 3 and 4 first, over the next month or so.
Don’t dislike it, […]

Matthew Parris (hmm….) on “Any Questions” (it must be the bleedin’ summer!) offered some hope when he suggested, from presumably a position of some inside knowledge, that Johnson getting the gig is far from a […]

Of course a dodger from the dire 1980s … no offence, obviously … is going to cut the “after the Lord Mayor’s show” slack.

A similar scenario happened 25 years ago when Tottenham should have been relegated for che […]

Film location.
“The Likely Lads.”

The Newcastle library scene, where Bob is pissed after the “pub closing down” scene and drops a dart board on Thelma’s foot, was filmed at the library in Elstree/Boreham Wood […]

Kinda with Gary on this, I personally never reckoned Cruyff, Pele or Eusebio at football.
It’s Vinnie Jones all the way.

Can’t be too surprised, Queenie’s not too hot on what constitutes the Greatest Generation.
She genuinely thinks it’s her own. No, really!!!
She’ll have more in common with Costello than Paul, Mick, Keith or Ray.

Shite, obviously.
14th album, apparently. Who knew?

14th Beach Boys L.P. was released in 68!

Nice work if you can get it.
Doesn’t seem very happy though, does she?

Can I mention her age?
Cheers … Missed the 60s, oh yeah.