I suppose this goes here. I don’t hate The Coldplays particularly, but this is the only song of theirs I’d turn up on the radio.

Billy Ocean’s Loverboy? Enjoy…

I was talking to my kids about this – they like the Friday Night Wind-Up too, so the notion that Sam & Mark were going to be doing another crazy Friday evening show was fine with them. I pulled up some clips on […]

Two of these guitars I’ve seen at the V&A. The #001 Strat was on show about 12 years ago in some collection I’ve forgotten about. The black Strat had its own mini exhibit in the Pink Floyd Their Mortal Remain sho […]

How about some Matthew Sweet, a king of this kind of thing.

That’s great stuff, the moves at the end – glad that stopped being a thing for them. And the wardrobe improved too.

Me too. So many house moves across hill and dale, I don’t know where my copy is either. And it’s not on Spotify.

“Yes, but if Elvis Costello & Squeeze had actually had a baby in 1981, what would it have sounded like?”

I was born mid-70s and while I find myself feeling nostalgic at the 1980s TOTPs on BBC4, there was very little contemporary pop that I liked at the time. Still, the day I bought the Sledgehammer & Addicted to […]

Heh, I don’t know if I did, but I also don’t know where I got it from if I didn’t. A quick search online shows me that as a phrase other people have used it. Boooo!

Whatever Roger says his motivation was for The Wall, avoiding bankruptcy was a major one.

Pink Floyd Manager: “Hey guys, the money’s gone!”

Pink Floyd: “Here’s a three minute pop song with a disco pea-soup […]

I’ll doff my cap for him putting Lovely Rita in the top 20. Such an overlooked song with more hooks than Velcro.

Having never knowingly listened to Rush, I watched the mega-documentary on Netflix last year and found the three of them to be quite charming. Alas, they have now stopped and there’ll be no Rush gig for me. A […]

Well, to be honest it just sounded down to me on the night, I can’t say I have perfect pitch.

Then I went and looked at some videos of it on YouTube and it seems I might just be wrong altogether. There’s som […]

There’s lots of shaky-mobile footage of the DB shows out there, but obviously they don’t convey 10% of what it was like. Still, when he gave us I Zimbra three or four songs in, people were very happy.

I thi […]

Looking at my notes it appears I’ve seen 21 gigs this year. I’d say only 3 were disappointing, 3 were “meh” and the other 15 were each great in their own way. The one gig on the list I keep coming back to is D […]

That LedZep-Beatles concoction is super. Worth checking out is this Christmas album by the Fab Four. So well done and made with a huge love of the Fabs. Just check out Jingle Bells.

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