I’ve been delaying in an attempt to get access to a printer for the “art” work, but I think I’ll give up on that now and burn copies tonight ready for sending tomorrow. Apologies.

There is a thing going round with suggested breakpoints for watching it as a four part mini-series!

00 – 49mins – When Jimmy ends his phone call
49 – 1h40 – When Joey’s introduced
1h40 – 2h47:30 – When Frank […]

Shuffling the big Anything That Sounded Vaguely Interesting (cue predictable comments) 35hour Spotify playlist on my phone gives:

“Paper Girl” – Le Super Homard
“This Life” – Vampire Weekend
“Helen Is A […]

You and me both!

Mind you, I did rather like the NMA album (they were sounding great in Edinburgh the other week too) so it might not be an entirely lost cause… 😉

What does Prince Andrew have in common with Manchester United and the Black Eyed Peas?

They all got worse after Fergie left.

Arrived thanks. Should finish mine off this weekend, so will save your CD until then.

As I’ve had it as the alarm tone on my phone for a number of years now, it’s probably “Kerosene” by Big Black, which is extremely effective at waking me up in the morning.

Mrs D wasn’t keen on it in the first […]

Well, I’ve got 12 tracks lined up, but – if past years are anything to go by – I’ll probably scrap half of them when I sit down for a burn session (stop sniggering at the back) at the weekend and end up with […]

Yikes. I think mine reached just short of 30 before I decided I’d got enough to be going on with.

Which is not to say that I won’t scrap the lot in a big hissy fit at the weekend in response to an abject […]

Just been ripping a few things for my Long List, whoever draws me is going to be getting an “eclectic” mix of stuff based on what I have so far… 😉

I’m in please.

Just for a change (ho ho) I’ll actually stick to the twelve track limit this time and avoid assaulting people with half dozen “bonus” tracks that were a bit “difficult” for inclusion on the main mix.

Yet more toy piano from Kid Carpet

“Badgers and foxes, I see about a hundred of them every day,
Don’t make a peep or a squeak, I think they’re asleep, beside the dual carriageway”

(“Green and Pleasant Land” […]

More squeaky toy usage here from The Coathangers

Or there’s always this live video where you can see it in action, but it’s not as loud

Well that was a bit odd. Within a couple of hours of posting that (and having not really given them a lot of thought for a couple of years at least) I get an email from the Battles mailing list announcing a new […]

How about veteran synth-pop cyborg and light-aircraft mangler Gary Numan guesting on “My Machines” from math-rock titans Battles.

Saw them doing this live with big screens on either side of the stage that they […]

“Your Ghost” was my first thought. Last time I saw Kristin live she brought the singer who’d been the support for the evening back to do the Stipe part, and every now and then you could see him just break into a […]

Nightbreed! That’s excellent news, have wanted a copy of that for ages. Though admittedly it’s been so long since I’ve seen it that I really can’t remember if it was actually any good or not 🙂

Argh, I’d missed that Homemade Weapons album, which is a bit remiss of me given that “Negative Space” was one of my favourite albums of 2016. Thanks for the heads up!

My response to the original tweet was

“Low-Life” – New Order
“The Golden Age Of Wireless” – Thomas Dolby
“101 Damnations” – Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
“1000 Years Of Trouble” – Age Of […]

Cautiously optimistic for the Amazon version of the ultra-violent ultra-nasty Garth Ennis / Darick Robertson superhero comics THE BOYS, hopefully it’ll be better than the PREACHER adaptation despite Seth Rogen […]