Erm … has anyone mentioned Tangerine Dream yet? No? OK, then I’ll say Ricochet, Encore, Logos Live and LiveMiles. All excellent – you gotta love the Tangs. Nanci Griffith: One Fair Summer Evening – beautiful […]

That must mean that you’ve been to “The Isle of Greece”, though, Diddley…

Yeah – and Hank B Marvin!

Also: A Blue Note jazz album recorded between 1956 and 1965 will have a brilliant cover design.

Yeah – and a big thumbs-down for Henrik Stenson, too. He really let himself down there.

Hmmm … Tom Waits added his son Casey (on “turntables”) to the band on “Top of the Hill” – the opening track of the “Real Gone” album. It was shite.

Wasn’t reggae primarily derived from the Jamaican mento, a rhythm brought over from West Africa? That’s what I’ve always believed. Maybe I’m wrong, I don’t know.

Re: The Macc Lads Come on now, fentonsteve, surely the Mods couldn’t object to “Twenty Pints of Boddingtons Every Friday Night?” [checks lyrics] Oh, hang on a minute … maybe they could …

I seem to remember Man. City winning 10-1 in a league game many years ago. I think it might’ve been against Huddersfield Town.

It’s been a rough year-and-a-bit for us Deadheads, with Phil passing in October 2024 and Donna leaving us two months ago. Only yesterday I was in the car, playing the 23 January 1970 show from Honolulu Civic […]

The Dead played “Truckin'” 520 times in their career. And Bob flubbed a line in each one of them. That song just wouldn’t have been the same without an error somewhere!

Erm … have we had the Mighty Zep yet? No? Here’s a clip you’ve all seen before, but hey! it’s still great …

Ooh, That makes me want to dig out my old copies of “Guds Spelemän” and “Vedergällningen”. Yeah – Garmarna (literally “The Vultures”) were really good. “Guds Spelemän” certainly kicks off with a couple of good ‘u […]

I hope to buy the R/Evolution set when it becomes available to the general public. Is the release date early March or something? Most importantly, will it be available to order from anywhere in the EU? The […]

Nice to see Fergus McCreadie holding down the coveted no.76 position.

Thanks for the tip about the Adam Buxton/John Foxx podcast, which I thoroughly enjoyed. What an interesting and entertaining chap John Foxx is. I somehow expected him to be a shy, fey chap from the home counties, […]

No, I suppose they don’t. MacColl comes over as dogmatic and self-important. Martyn was clearly an obnoxious, vicious bully.

Yeah, I’m enjoying the Ian A. Anderson book. I think anyone who’s interested in how the folk and world music scene in the UK has developed over the past 55 years would be interested in it. Anderson’s style is […]

Re: “How do you know all this stuff?” Well, I’m currently reading Ian A. Anderson’s autobiography, “Alien Water: six decades paddling in unpopular music” (2025). It’s the story of his life as a musician, […]

Yes, Lucy Duran used to be married to a Gambian guy and lived in West Africa for many years. In the 1980s she organised trips to Senegal (including gigs) for people interested in West African music. That’s how […]