That’s a very nice article. By strange coincidence, I picked up the new Boards of Canada record yesterday and there is an unadvertised hexagonal flexi disc in the booklet. I really can’t remember when I last played one.

Went to see Nick Kelly’s documentary last week where he spends a week cycling from Dublin to Glastonbury, playing gigs along the way in order to celebrate his 60th birthday and question the climate-friendliness of […]

I spent Easter in Berlin, visited a number of record stores (thanks to recommendations from @slotbadger in another thread) and had a very pleasant experience in all of them. I have to admit though, something […]

I picked up the KC album on RSD, even though I had the same performance on the Road to Red box. It really is a fantastic performance, and the vinyl sounds immaculate. Can’t recommend it enough. It’s good to […]

My guess is that the original multitrack tapes are not in good condition, if they even exist. Surely there was lots of bouncing down and all that if it was done on 8-track. Maybe someone else might know…

I have bought the 2CD/Bluray version of Trixies which has original mid 1970s demos on the second CD of all but one of the songs. So unless the demos are some kind of ruse, the origin story of Trixies seems […]

I haven’t seen that in an age, still very funny. The non-Blindboy half of the Rubberbandits goes by Bobby Fingers on YouTube and puts up these remarkable videos on YouTube ostensibly about making models and […]

I can’t get my head around The Cranberries resurgence. Third tier Sinead/Sundays music. Back when Zombie came out it seemed to me like a joke song. When they came back together circa 2010 my recollection is […]

Oh my! Thanking you!

I’ll be in Neukölln in April – can you be more specific about where to get second hand vinyl & CDs please!

More Ireland recommendations here: https://www.kennys.ie – an online and real bookstore that offers free delivery in Ireland on everything. They are great. https://spindizzyrecords.com – again the online […]

Streets of London will always remind me of this perfect sketch, which is really about how insufferable people are when it comes to new music. https://youtu.be/p1YNEtaHbzA As I said above, I only saw him for […]

Saw him for the first time in Dublin last year. Fully recommended. He knows what he’s doing.

I have decided to document every album I listen to in full. Rather that just pop up a #nowplaying message on Mastodon, I’m keeping a list on my notes app. I’m wondering what my capacity is. 13 so far this year.

The TS album is what we call in the business “not good”.

1>The Monkees – Pisces Aquarius Capricorn & Jones Ltd After 15 years, Rhino complete the 3-4 CD reissues of the first 8 Monkees albums with PAC&JLtd. They have been exemplary. Alt takes, rehearsals, new […]

I realise that I don’t do full albums as much as I use to. Listening to more individual songs and relying on older records (and old records that are new to me) when I go for the full album experience. For […]

I went to see Aja, an Irish Steely Dan tribute band last month and they were excellent. Was wondering how they were going to pull it off but they had an amazing guitarist who was able to deliver and an engaging […]

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