Tattoos are all ugly in my opinion. I adopt an (admittedly irrational and prejudicial) attitude of intellectual superiority whenever I encounter a tattooed person. And to people who chew gum and call me ‘man’ or […]

Nothing here for me. I never understood the attraction of ‘coloured’ vinyl. Or for over-priced 7″ singles of tracks that are previously available. But hey. Shops have to survive I guess…

Indeed. Thanks for that Doctor. Amazing what a difference an intelligent interviewer makes.

Nein

I don’t expect or want him to be interrogated. But I do want him to be *interesting* in exchange for my ten ninety nine. And this was a missed opportunity. Perhaps the Covid restrictions had something to do with it mind…

Indeed, the album is rather good I think.

I’m having fun guessing the chords.

My objection mainly is that it was lazy. We all know that Macca is a well-honed interviewee and gives nothing away but I had at least hoped that the producer (and it was naturally co-produced by MPL so maybe my […]

Having never heard of her placed me at a distinct disadvantage here.

The new one by Anal Boob Throb was cruelly overlooked.

Well, I’ve heard of Elvis Costello.

Ah right. Sorry, I misread it. Amazed Bruce was unhappy with it though.

This has been available for a while though hasn’t it? I have it on both CD and a four record vinyl edition which was a limited edition release for Record Store Day around two years ago. It’s a fabulous set. Up […]

Fuck all this crap. My favourite musical discovery this year has been ‘Piledriver’ by the mighty Quo.

It has a poem on it about an empty glass of beer called ‘The Bitter End’. Ironic really given what happened…

My dad went on a round the world trip in 1975. He offered to take my mum with him, but not me. So, honourably, my mum said no. She and I would take a holiday of our own. So we went to Great Yarmouth on a coach […]

The first two series were great I thought. I liked the way they focused on relatively little-known aspects of the royal story such as the episode about Lord Altrincham and his plan to modernise the family or the […]

Indeed, I enjoy the playing. Nascent Ronson and some nice drumming from Woody. As previously mentioned, Visconti’s baroque bass was an annoyance when I first heard this album as a teenager… but it’s growing on […]

It’s not so much the sequencing for me, more that the melodic nature of the songs on the ‘original’ side one were always stronger. The one big standout moment on the ‘original’ second side was the awesome title […]

By ‘side one’ I naturally mean the one featuring ‘The Width of a Circle’, ‘All the Madmen’, ‘Black Country Rock’ and ‘After All.’