Interestingly, Albania have qualified for the Euro 2024 football tournament, topping their group above the Czech Republic and Poland. The days when Albanian football was a bit of a joke are long gone.

Have any other Afterworders read “Free”, Lea Ypi’s account of growing up in Enver Hoxha’s Albania in the 1980s? It’s a cracking little book! I went to see a talk she gave here in Stockholm, too. Very interesting.

I always like it when the Shadows are referred to as “the Shads”.

1. Yes – you can certainly do someone a mischief with an electric shaver. 2. The cover of the Black Uhuru album listed the title as “Youth of Eglington”, with a ‘g’ between the first ‘n’ and the ‘t’. But the […]

Yes, some tremendous images there. Ron Harris … crikey … there was a classic 1970s hardman.

There’s an Ali Farka Touré album called “Red”, too!

Oh yes – that’s what I was thinking. “The youth of Eglinton Won’t put down their Remington…”

Audiophile inners. Oh yes. Good move.

I have a children’s picture-book in Welsh, called “Y Broga”. It would appear to be about a frog. There don’t appear to be any mentions of frogs in dai’s review of the Bob Dylan Budokan set.

Maybe you should’ve gone for the Motörhead Shiraz…

Yeah … I’ve got to agree. That’s a shocker.

“They changed my brain And I made the Beatles appear I made the Beatles appear Out of nowhere” Kathryn Williams: “Beatles”

The great Greek composer and pianist Eleni Karaindrou has written the scores for so many of Theo Angelopoulos’s films. Most of them are available on ECM records, which is always a good sign. Some […]

Mike_H: Kaisfatdad and I saw the Necks live in Stockholm last night. It was my third Necks gig and KFD’s fourth. They were absolutely outstanding. Am confident that you’ll love the concert in London.

Vijay Iyer is waving a lone flag for jazz, there at number 33!

Bought 13, heard 13. For what it’s worth, I think this is a pretty good list, although I’m surprised there’s no place for the Mitski album on it. With any luck, it’ll lead more people to check out some of the […]

Re: Terence Davies films I think you’d like “Of Time and the City” (2008), Arthur.

Ladies and gentlemen of the Afterword, I give you Sir Richard Thompson: I feel for you, you little horror Safe at your mother’s breast No lucky break for you around the corner ‘Cause your father is a […]

1. Thanks for the review, Vulpes. 2. Happy 80th Birthday for yesterday, Joni! What an extraordinary artist she is. We’re lucky to (still) have her…

Sadly, the Dead never played Finland (or indeed Norway). The one time that the band set foot on Swedish soil was for the Stockholm gig at Isstadion on 13 October 1990. It was, by common consent, one of the worst […]