Richard Thompson was in the bowling attack? No wonder Sir Geoffrey scored 191. I can hardly imagine the beret-wearing master guitarist being able to make one nip back off the seam.

Rockhampton, Queensland …. hmmm …. I’ve heard of that town, as one of my great musical heroes was from there: Grant McLennan (1958-2006).

I like Hamilton watches, too.
And of course Elvis Presley famously wore the strangely triangular Hamilton Ventura, as seen in this photo:

One can buy it now with either an automatic or a quartz movement.

1. My absolute favourite video clip posted on the Afterword last year was the one that thecheshirecat posted of “Bully in the Alley” sung by that guy whose voice is so deep and powerful it can move buildings. […]

1. Lovely post, Podicle. Superb.
2. Tudor is a sister brand to Rolex, isn’t it? Out of interest, what’s the movement in your watch – is it an ETA or one of Rolex’s own movements, or … something else?

12 with quite a few guesses.

Re: US remakes of European films.

The Burnley defender James Tarkowski had a poor game against Manchester United earlier in the season. In the BTL comments in the Guardian after the game, some wag remarked that […]

Rain.

Re: Days Without End.
It’s a good’un, all right.

Have nearly finished the novella “Passing” (1929) by Nelly Larsen, a writer of the Harlem Renaissance.
Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in early 20th century African-American literature.

B.S. Johnson’s famous ‘book in a box’, “The Unfortunates”, is a brilliant concept and one of my favourite novels ever. Read it all costs!

Dubmaster Paul “Groucho” Smykle – famous for his great work on Black Uhuru’s “The Dub Factor” and other Sly & Robbie tunes – did a killer remix of King Sunny Adé’s “Ja Funmi” (off “Juju Music”). Basically, if you […]

I love the bit in Robert Forster’s (auto)biography of his life with Grant McLennan, when the Go-Betweens arrive in London and are overjoyed to find that they can buy the NME minutes after it hits the streets, […]

Yeah, I sometimes used to go up to the Disibodenberg Monastery to catch one of Hildegard’s afternoon acoustic liturgical sets.

From his autobiog, Mark Ellen’s description of Nick Kent’s customary arrival at the NME offices in Carnaby Street…

‘… the magnificent Nick Kent, whose arrival was preceded by great waves of expectation, […]

Nick Kent was an excellent rock journalist.
As a novelist? I dunno. We’ll see.
Also, I’ve always been a big fan of Kent’s old NME comrade in arms, Charles Shaar Murray. I’ve read some of his rock books, but […]

Pete de Freitas of the Bunnymen certainly wasn’t a Scouser. He was from somewhere in Oxforshire, I think. Great drummer, of course.

I agree that the seventh and final episode of The Queen’s Gambit was significantly less good than the previous six.
Nice to see Bill Camp as Mr Shaibel – his juiciest role since his barnstorming performance as […]

The Beatles album that I play the most is “Past Masters Vol. 2”.
I wonder if I am alone in this.

Eugene Wright, double-bass player of the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet for more than 30 albums, died on 30 December at the grand old age of 97.
When Dave Brubeck hired Wright in 1957, the presence of an African […]