Crikey. Mojo. Is that still going?

I feel pretty much the same way. Lovely as it is I don’t think it works as well as The Detectorists. The plot is just ever so slightly too ridiculous for me to align the supernatural element with the everyday- the […]

I couldn’t name a single Bad Bunny track and I’ve never knowingly heard a note of his music but if Trump hates him (and everything he allegedly stands for) then I’m hopping (see what I did there?) onboard the […]

I don’t mind an advert or two when nothing much is happening in a football match (a longer than usual injury say). With rugby I really wouldn’t mind if we had adverts for the entire duration.

Not a great list, hints of barrel scraping (particularly with the Doors- whose releases I usually snap up). But I might pop into Spillers the week after to see if they still have a copy of the XTC one.

I listened to Geese a few times in an attempt to understand what the middle aged kidz were getting so excited about and I’m afraid, following a series of scientifically observed experiments, the conclusion was […]

Oh, you know, it won’t come as a surprise to any of you regulars I’m sure but I really couldn’t give a s**t.

I only really buy second hand items from the 60s or 70s or re-issues on CD box or on vinyl. The only new things I tend to buy- with very few exceptions- (usually on vinyl) are by previously-loved artists like the […]

I appreciate there were isolated moments of joy post 1980 but, for me anyway, Bowie will always be about being thirteen, fourteen and (inevitably) fifteen. Aladdin Sane, Ziggy, Hunky, The Man Who Sold the World. […]

I read the book and, despite it being well presented and researched, I came away with my view bolstered that post-70s Bowie was a much diminished creative force.

If I may be allowed to develop this theme m’lud. My client has a well-publicized love for all things Music Hall as previously exemplified by such items as When I’m Sixty Four, Honey Pie and Martha My Dear. They […]

Thank god for that.

Sister Ray is pretty horrible.

And I’ve always liked Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. There are worse songs on Abbey Road. The one about ‘wanting her’ for instance which must surely be on a loop in Hell. Then there’s something about an Octopus.

Very strange…

Better get used to it. As you’re clinging on that raft. Humming the horn solo to keep the sharks at bay.

If the entire pop and rock canon was suddenly swiped away by a massive tsunami and only Penny Lane was saved then, somehow, things wouldn’t seem so bad.

Yes, I quite agree about the Circus version. Absolutely brilliant and, allegedly, the reason the Stones shelved the project because it revealed them to be shambolic and under-rehearsed (which they were of course- […]

I think everyone should listen to the forty minute version of Sister Ray. Although possibly only once…

I like that too. But only side one. Palls a bit after that for me and loses its essential melodic thread. Probably a great actual concert but, had I been his A&R I’d have strongly advised a single album.