Clearly I’m not as much of a deviant as some others around here… 😉

Heh, seven of my choices didn’t a manage to pick up a vote from anyone else 🙂

Largely expected, but a bit surprising that absolutely nobody managed to find a place for “Surfer Rosa” on their list.

Nice […]

Based on about five minutes of thought to avoid vanishing down a rabbit-hole…

1 – House Tornado – Throwing Muses
2 – Will Anything Happen – The Shop Assistants
3 – Songs About Fucking – Big Black
4 – The […]

Saw a shop selling pots and pans last summer (forget where) called “For Those About To Cook”.

Down the road in Burntisland there’s a sweet shop called “Aye Candy”, because what else would you call one in Scotland?

Brighton janglepop veterans The Popguns posted this about him too

“Sad news today. Matthew Seligman who produced our Crazy ep and lent his prodigious bass abilities to some tracks on Love Junky, died yesterday.…[Read more]

Thanks for that. All sounds entirely sensible.

I was wondering that too. I’ve got a blood test scheduled for next week (to check the effects of a three month course of medication) that I’d assumed would be cancelled, but had a text yesterday confirming that it […]

Thanks, and a (belated) happy anniversary to you.

Thanks. One of the odder ones I’ve had, but had a decent go at making the most of it.

It’s my birthday today, and for the last couple of years I’ve amused myself with a One Track Per Year (while not re-using artists from previous years) playlist, here’s what I came up with this year…

Going out […]

Matthew Seligman – bass player for The Soft Boys, long-time Thomas Dolby collaborator, part of Bowie’s backing band at Live Aid.

Had been in an induced coma for the last couple of weeks after contracting Covid-19.

Here’s my usual playlist of my favourite tunes of the year, limited to one track per act and capped to 100 tracks, so it’s one-in-one-out for anything new that gets added.

Thought I’d take punt on it for 99p.

If the footnotes are as essential / numerous as people are suggesting, I might try having it open on the Kindle to read and also on the phone app to show the footnotes.

I like cashew nuts, I like whisky, I like smoky flavours…

So these are immense

“Hawkhead cashews are smoked over whisky barrel oak sourced from Scottish Distilleries. The smoking wood starts its journey in […]

A few more contenders

“Empires and Dance” – Simple Minds
“No One Can Ever Know” – The Twilight Sad
“Introspective” – Pet Shop Boys
“Oil and Gold” – Shriekback
“The Plot Against Common Sense” – Future of the Left

That would’ve been my choice too.

They do a rather nice “Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, A Member Of The Blue Aeroplanes?” t-shirt with a list of all the past members on the back.

That’s true.

But that’s good as you can then follow them on Twitter to pick recommendations which make you cooler than the other 99.9% of the population 🙂

By the time they’ve noticed this, it’s been in progress for 2+ years and is on the way back out again.

Having said that, its an excellent CD.

(I haven’t bought it myself as I’ve got most of the tracks […]

A few comments from my behind-the-scenes copy of the @stellarx mix…

…which I nearly didn’t post as I really haven’t got much that’s positive to say, but I’ve been on the end of some fairly savage maulings […]