Greg Foat is phenomenal. “The Dreaming Jewels” will be his 4th album in 8 months.

April 2019 – St. Lawrence (with Warren Hampshire)
May 2019 – The Mage
September 2019 – Photosynthesis (with James […]

Police (Commissioner) on My Back?

I’m So Bored of the ECB?

Yes, in those league ladders, the tab for every team was in the colours of that team’s (home) kit. West Ham in claret and blue. Marvellous.

The First Railway Cut is the Deepest

Re: that new ‘Marriage Story’ film with music by Randy Newman.

Yeah … I’m looking forward to seeing it, too … if I can get to see it.
Like Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma”, “Marriage story” is a Netflix film. This […]

I subscribe to the Wire magazine.

It’s pretty good if you want the very latest about artists who stand at a synthesizer and make a very rowdy noise like a rhinoceros trapped in a wardrobe.

I’m a fan of Yes from, say … The Yes Album to Going for the One. Don’t like what I’ve heard of the later stuff.

I have 3 live Yes albums:

Yessongs
Yesshows
Keys to Ascension vol. 1

Are there any other […]

Well, I suppose that Tamperer does sound a bit like the Finnish city of Tampere (see above).

Late spring 1980. The band that I wrote lyrics for were playing a gig at the St. Albans College of Further Education. Also on the bill were a school band from Hatfield called Stern Bops. Playing guitar and singing […]

‘larrikin’

That’s a great Australian word!

Another brave attempt, but I’m afraid it’s not Lieksa.

Despite the outstanding efforts of Black Celebration, I don’t think anybody’s going to get this. And obviously every Afterworder has spent the past few […]

There’s no need to have Jools Holland on the piano. You could have Victor. Absolut Borge.

Blimey. There’s an awful lot of Cabaret Voltaire records in the core curriculum!

I had a ticket to see the Delines at a tiny club in Stockholm on 12 May this year. But I got ill, and couldn’t go. Was really disappointed. Would loved to have seen them.
Kaisfatdad went. He said they were […]

You’re getting warm, BC.
Right country! … but wrong town.

Sadly, the population of Splttrstunn is only ten men and a dog.

Thanks for your suggestions, RD.
Rosenborg in a Norwegian football club based in Trondheim, which is on the coast.
Östersund is a decent shout, as it is actually an inland town, but sadly it’s not correct.

Yeah. I like Flight of the Conchords. Cool to have seen them in a pub. Nice.
One tiny thing, though. It’s Jemaine (no r) Clement, not Jermaine.

Sadly not, BC, as Malmö is on the coast.
But thank you for coming up with a guess – I thought I’d killed off this marvellous thread completely!