Thanks for keeping the old ship afloat @Ainsley , I think the reason for the speedy demise of the old site was simply a financial one, they would have had to pay running costs (I’m sure some astronomical figure w […]

Interesting, thanks everyone. Good to see plenty of Word “lifers” here, sounds like I’m the only one who’s a WIYE subscriber and joins in the Friday quiz etc. I’m not on the top tier though (15 quid a month) wh […]

A “Patrick Crowther” gets occasional mentions from his correspondence on a recent Word in Your Ear podcasts, I presume it’s the same chap I remember from the old blog

There is no such thing as ‘peak vinyl’. It is not a fashion fad it’s a very very long established collectors market which has heated up massively in the past 15 years or so albeit at the same time Vinyl is now […]

Sky Arse has broadcast several docs recently that I’d normally expect to be on BBC4 – the Style Council Doc, the excellent King Rocker, Teenage Superstars the Scottish Indie doc and several others so not surprised […]

Well I was a bit too young to attend the 10th summer gig but I was at the same venue 2 years later to have my teenage mind blown by New Order, ACR, Happy Mondays and DJ Mike Pickering playing Acid House.
I do […]

I was going to purchase a copy but it’s 40 quid! Ouch

“Was this Manchester’s finest musical hour?” – erm well one of two things happened in Manchester after 1986 but we don’t like to go on about it.

A quick Google and Here’s yr ECM T-shirts & Tote Bags – quite tasty actually

The ECM would appear to be official merch but of course Rule 34 applies to T-Shirts it seems if you wanna go the hooky street bootleg […]

The tickets flew out very quickly but I did manage get tx for one of the Cupid & Psyche 85 shows – hope it happens but either way I’ve really enjoyed seeing Green do his thing in small venues over the last few […]

On the basis that valuations are based on rarity, the collectability of the aritist/genre/record label invovled I’m guessing No.2. since nobody gives a shit about no.3 and more people are invested in Beatles than […]

I forgot about that Wheaty, yes that KC disc was a keeper. I’m not much of one for compilations but single artists ones are a bit more interesting. I know a while ago they proposed dropping the CD but readers w […]

I buy paper magazines – i spend all day working on a screen so it’s nice to get away and leaf through a mag – alas clearly I’m in the minority and most prefer to stay on a tablet or a screen and burn their retinas […]

That’s excellent but I don’t hear the Radiohead comparison at all- it reminds me more of his fellow Welshman John Cale. Speaking of John Cale – here is his latest thing with Kelly Lee Owens. I’d put these two […]

This looks cheap and tatty – surely the great Derek Taylor deserves better? , and the withering and dreadfully dated words ‘Spin Doctor’ alone suggest the author is pretty clueless so I don’t intend to read this – […]

It was alright, bear in mind that most people watching haven’t heard as many Macca interviews as many of us have so it was probably good viewing for yr casual viewer – at least he didn’t tell the story about “the […]

On a similar tip to the Coldcut track, Mark E Smith did an album with German electronic band Mouse on Mars as Von Südenfed- it’s rather good – and funnily enough it sounds a bit like LCD Soundsystem – (a band who […]

I don’t see much Taylor Parkes on The Quietus of late. I would subscribe to their crowdfunding push if I thought they would spend that on commissioning more writing from him – he’s the funniest and most erudite […]

Ooh that’s interesting. Never heard that before even though I’m a big Cocteau Twins fan. Complicated band politics around this one I guess – but as a piece of music it’s really good but needs someone to mix it […]