Quite possibly not. The government, unlike local councils, traditionally never insured any of the buildings it owned. The annual premiums were judged likely to be greater than the cost of replacing the occasional casualty.

Ninebarrow are an example of how many in the folk world diversify. Some people ( like the people in the Willows) seem to get by through being in about 5 bands, duos or whatever simultaneously. Ninebarrow appear […]

Moreover, Glitter/Gadd was convicted by three courts in two different countries.

The other issue is whether new vinyl sounds as marvellous as old. To my ears if often sounds identical to the CD version, which makes it a rather expensive option.

Alternatively, you could just get over yourselves.

Rock bands nowadays seem to be in much the same place as Trad Jazz was in the 50s. Except the gap in time between the 50s bands and their predecessors was shorter than that between todays bands and many of the […]

But how many years is it since Hot Chip supported Goldfrapp ?

Truro has both flushing toilets in Cornwall, did you mean?

In terms of the new ownership, a business model that seems predicated , at least in part, from vinyl sales from the high street ( as opposed to the traditional off the beaten track lair of record shops) seems ambitious.

The notion that any UK government might set up a successful electronic answer seems fanciful, given the repeated failure to develop and effective IT system in any other context. Universal Credit is but the latest […]

She was a Tory, but switched to UKIP.

Meanwhile, the BBC reports today that CD sales fell 23 % in 2018. Vinyl sales flattened out with a 1.6 increase. The big CD sellers were things like Now that’s what I call…., Star is Born S/T and George Ezra. […]

I see that there is column in the Guardian saying HMV won’t be missed and that we have independent shops anyway. On the other hand, an actual independent, Resident records has tweeted taking a very different view, […]

Labour could not propose a Norway type arrangement as Norway is not in the Customs Union ( which Labour thinks the UK should belong to) but is signed up to elements of the Single Market rules that Labour ( or […]

The best thing about condition 2 is that it’s the full benefits of the single market, but without havkng the freedom of movement. Something tells me that is unlikely.

Of course, Jeremy Corbyn said that the government should have gone for Article 50 the day after the referendum.

Prior to leaving the US, Macron was quoted as describing US backtracking on foreign policy issues like the Paris climate deal and Iran as ‘insane”.

I suspect that the scientists worked that one out some time ago.

Numbers one and three in John Peel’s 1977 personal festive fifty.

I think you might be confusing him with thr late Mark E Smith.