If it’s wordy poems your after…look no further than Robert Southey…

Another vote for ‘Chaos and Disorder’. A contractual obligation album of alleged filler it may be but I bought it on the strength of a Charles Shaar Murray review and was not disappointed. In fact it’s probably […]

An old Wykehamist will never let you down…

Ate a scorpion once.

It was okay.

Well look, on a positive note, I liked both his shirts. Although at times the whole caboodle did have a similar visual vibe to Jon Pertwee and the Silurians from a mid seventies episode of Dr Who.

There was very little *change* from forty quid.

I particularly love the Jobriath cover and then the middle section from Its Over through to and including Lady Willpower. He’s an odd bloke but then he’s a rock star. What do we expect? His singing these days is sublime.

Ah right. I do occasionally venture out.

Yes, saw the Cardiff gig and felt the same. I really like Nick Lowe but both myself and Lady G thought it was a bit of a swizz going off after half an hour and leaving his backing band to do basically the same […]

Difficult to gauge whether that’s genuine amazement or sarcasm. But they are both very good I think. Morrissey’s probably has the edge and has been played most often. His singing really has hit a sweet spot and […]

The only ‘new’ albums I’ve bought so far this year have been ‘California Son’ by Morrissey and ‘Where the Action is’ by the Waterboys. I really like them both.

I used to live in Cliftonwood Crescent near ‘The Lion’ pub- another regular location.

Yes, was dragged along to see him too once. I only knew ‘May you Never’. Apparently he played it.

I have one of those CD player things. And Radio 4.

And silence.

I’ve never used itunes. I wouldn’t know where to start. If I want to hear music I put a record on.

You’re right in that I should have paid more attention to reviews but I never like to read them before going to see films because, despite their best efforts, they often give away vital parts of the story. With […]

I fail to see the correlation between the box office success of musicals and me not liking them. But hey. You’re the expert. I bow to the Poundland Mark Kermode.

Actually The Waterboys at Glastonbury in 1986 and 1988 (or was it ’89?) were by far the best band I saw on the Pyramid stage or any other. I reckon the current incarnation would probably blow away any of this […]

Yes, he made Morrissey look like Frank Carson.

My best experience of Glasto was in 1988 and 89 because I was lucky enough to have a backstage press pass. Things I recall-

The Waterboys staying on long after their set and playing songs around a camp […]