First single I bought was ‘Children of the Revolution’ by T.Rex. Fifty pence in Bangor Woolworths.

The first album bought for me was David Cassidy’s ‘Cherish’ (on cassette) by my mum. The first album I bought for […]

And definitely lose that awful long cowboy song.

Bit hard on the old molars.

Well, never having downloaded anything I wouldn’t possibly know. But seven ninety nine buys you two rather juicy swordfish steaks from Ashton’s fish stall in Cardiff Market so I might just plump for that instead. […]

Thanks for this. My thinking is that I will not love this album more than I already do as a result of a remix. The questions going through my mind as I fondle the (admittedly attractive) box would be along the […]

I do love ‘Abbey Road’ but to be honest I’m becoming very weary of these ‘anniversary remixes’. To my knowledge this album has been fiddled with and dabbled with a few times before and I’m wondering if this new […]

St Peter has already arranged some extra security.

Blues rock is seen as an historically interesting but artistically defunct genre now isn’t it? A bit like trad jazz or be-bop. There surely aren’t many 17 or 18 year olds out there who want to be the next Clapton […]

Shame really as I’m just getting the hang of them pentatonic scales.

It’s all probably true. Rock music had a pretty decent innings but everything that could be done within it’s fairly limited range has probably been done by now. Can’t say I particularly care to be honest. Almost […]

I wouldn’t claim that NS is one of his *great* albums but I’ve always preferred it to JWH personally. Curiously, I will bet that when Dylan eventually pops his clogs (does he still wear them) Lay Lady Lay will be […]

It’s got ‘Lay Lady Lay’ on it. And at least three other tunes you can hum. JWH is just a bit too miserable to my ears. And Hendrix did a much better version of the best song on it…

(dives for cover…)

(Spits out coffee)… er…no one in Bad Company could ever write as well as Ian Hunter. Even Ralpher would admit that. And has. BC were a decent ‘blues-rock’ band (probably the last) operating within pretty […]

Ah well, there we differ. Always loved Skyline- happy, bouncy, cheerful and refreshingly tuneful.

I know I should like JWH more than I do…but I don’t. I appreciate that it’s one of his ‘greats’. I just never […]

Of course I’ll be buying it. But I do find John Wesley Harding to be the most stubbornly unlovable of Dylan’s so-called ‘great’ albums.

Clearly nowhere near as good as Mott the Hoople or Free- from whence the main players came. But I bought ‘Straight Shooter’ as a kid and still like it.

Didn’t like anything else they did though.

Funny. That’s what my book is about too.

Feel free to fill your boot Tigs… and if you do let me know what you think. The main story was also adapted for BBC Radio Wales a year or so ago.

Where’s that sodding trumpet? Ah, here it is…

I’ve published three novels in Welsh, a short story collection in English (with nice endorsements from Hepworth, Ellen and Radio One’s Huw Stephens) and I have an […]

The HMV in Cardiff is on two levels and really well-stocked- particularly with vinyl (a tremendous boxed set rack). But the last few times I’ve gone in and browsed it’s been pretty empty of that vital element- […]