If this is designed to capture a new, young audience, it doesn’t say much for the record company’s respect for said young audience. Mind you, I absolutely guarantee you that that respect it is significantly […]

Cinema: Really good this month… Saw the brilliant ‘Rose of Nevada’ (Mark Jenkin) for a third time. ‘Redoubt’ – A wonderful film set in Cold War Sweden about an older man building a house all on his own to […]

Physical newspapers on a Sunday are a nice luxury. I buy one (Observer) and then go into a local hotel to collar the arts sections/magazines of the others (the brilliant Financial Times, the awful Telegraph and […]

Test Cricket on BBC Five Live Extra, starts tomorrow. I was talking to someone last year about the BBC… She: “Get rid of it, it’s biased.” Me: “So where do I get ball-by-ball commentary of the Test Cricket […]

I’ll say one thing about the Thompson Twins (wow! didn’t think I’d ever start a sentence with those words), they had hits in America. Check out the smiths over there. Oh dear. Very ‘indie’.

Eight broadcasts by Lord Haw-Haw. Right up Fromage’s street.

Dai’s right, he always is, hits-tastic. Rolling Stone mag + punkoids = avoid like the plague. You all know the drill… the Golden Age it went thatta-way… we all know it.

I’ve got the criteria for prog… Golden Age? It went thatta way!

… and by-elections are notoriously random. See SDP in the dire. See Reform. One’s a pointless score on Pointless, one will be a pointless score on Pointless in years to come, if of course Pointless is still going!

See: Heath 1970. Thatcher 1981. Major 1991. Brown 2009. A whole three years until the next election, with or without Starmer as the Prime Minster. If I’d said five years ago that Starmer would win the next […]

That figures, I hate Camden Market with a passion.

Not many Labour leaders win General Elections, an election win which, if predicted five years ago, would have been laughed at by 90% of the population and 100% of political commentators. ‘He got all the right […]

Pop music should be like sport… ‘we are going to start at 8 p.m.’ = the thing starts at 8 p.m. No exceptions to the rule. If that had been the norm over the years, I’d have gone to a lot more concerts. […]

I’ll watch the England games, I like this England team. June will be great, three England World Cup fixtures, three Test Matches. I’m sure there are exceptions to the rule, but the less you pay for sport the […]

Not an original unfortunately, but on 1 January every year of the last thirty, it’s got played several times in my house. This should have been a hit of some sort but it was a ‘very’ crowded marketplace. I like […]

The Record Collector special is excellent. I’ve dug out the ol’ shoe box with Zappa CDs overflowing out of it, and so I’ll be listening to a lot of yer man over the next few months. One thing… hmm… the era […]

The whole thing’s pretty tragic. We have Chelsea in all kind of problems apparently, who may yet win the F.A. Cup which, of course, will be ‘really important’ to them if they do. It means nothing. It’s sad. I’ve […]

Of course I was at a game today. Our local team are considered Johnny-come-latelys, which I’m often reminded of when I’m standing on the edge of some Cornish field watching a St. Piran’s 3rd Division match. My […]

One of my local football teams in Step 6 had an ex-Premier League player (over 200 appearances) in their side a few years ago. I know it sounds daft/obvious, but he simply knew ‘how’ to kick a football. When […]

I’d definitely go for a British As and Bs 65-69. Quirky, all over the place, perfect length for a CD. Cue me in for that, and a 60s Sainted Dave equivalent. And Marc Bolan. Ace? Ace? Where are you, Ace?