I certainly enjoyed it when Liz Truss got booted out of the South-West Norfolk seat.

Ooh, I don’t know. Wes Montgomery had a fair bot of oomph…

Ooh – I know that. It’s “The Waste Land”!

Let’s have a small shout-out to Paul Whitehead’s early logo for Genesis, which was used on the Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot and Geneis Live albums:

For my CD player I bought the most reasonably priced mains cable I could find (a Wireworld Stratus 7). Is it a sonic improvement over the standard cable that came with the player? Erm … I don’t know. I didn’t […]

Let’s have a thumbs-up for Roger Dean’s classic “Yes” logo. I love the way the tail of the Y whips around and becomes the tail of the S. Brilliant!

Re: “Effect is the doing of the thing and affect is the result.” Well, that’s true: ‘effect’ is a substantive, and ‘to affect’ is a verb. The problem is, there’s also a verb ‘to effect’, which of course […]

I was fairly interested in the Bill Evans at the BBC set until a whole lot of people on the Steve Hoffman forum started reporting that the sound quality of the set is appalling – absolutely unlistenable. That put […]

R.E.M.’s brilliant “Strange Currencies” was used very effectively to end the second season of “The Bear”.

I’m not an Oasis fan by any means, but I liked the way that Peter Flannery’s brilliant TV drama “Our Friends in the North” (1996) concluded with “Don’t Look Back in Anger” over the final credits.

Thumbs up for Season 6, episode 14 of The Sopranos, which had John Coopeer Clarke’s “Evidently Chickentown” playing over the end credits. Unexpected but terrific.

As someone on the Steve Hoffman Forums once remarked. “Bill Evans’ ‘best work’ was every time he touched the keyboard”…

‘Can we have everything louder than everything else?’

A belated thank-you to salwarpe for the recommendation of the Ganavya album “Nilam”. I bought the vinyl LP, and it’s a wonderful thing. What a beautiful voice she has. If I’d heard the record in 2025, it would […]

When I saw that TV film in 1984, it scared the shit out of me. I also bought the DVD, but I’ve never been able to bring myself to watch it. Hah!

By cancelling your booking, you’ve cancelled the boaking!

Yeah, I love “The Pitt”, but I find some of the medical terminology that they bandy around rather … baffling.

Squeezing Out Sparks. That’s the One.

Ooh, I’m confused now. I listened to that Word in Your Ear videocast with Glenn Tilbrrok a couple of weeks ago. Towards the end of the video, Glenn talks about using “Track” when playing live. Mark and David ask […]

Tom Waits’ love song to his wife Kathleen Bremman. One minute thirty-four seconds. From the incomparable “Swordfishtrombones” album, of course. She’s my only true love She’s all that I think of, look […]