I can remember at some point deriding the audience and performers on the Good Old Days television programme. In hindsight, they weren’t really harking any further back in time than people now going to see the […]

Out of curiosity, does anyone know whether Lynch was a keen supporter of then RMT Secretary General’s Mick Cash’s call branches to affiliate with the Solidarity with the Anti-fascist Resistance in Ukraine campaign […]

The Shape of Water soundtrack.

London Palladium, not Albert Hall.

I had forgotten until I read about her death that I went to see play that album ( Albert Hall ? maybe) and a fine show it was.

Subject of a marvellous exhibition at Tate Britain last summer. I am glad that it happened before she died.

So there we have it. The vast majority of women,for example, are at their best when they are silent. No wonder so few flit across the pages of this site.

I see that many apparently famous / cool people watched the concert and/ or other bits and then said how awful it was on Twitter. I wa struck by the number who expected it to be rubbish beforehand. I couldn’t help […]

Re the OPs comments about Kate, I think I would look pretty frosty if I had to make a day trip to Cardiff with two young children and then had to cpme back and listen stone cold sober to music from my parents or […]

At least one survey found that about 50% of new vinyl albums sold are never played. Only a matter of time before XR protesters start gluing themselves to Record Store Day punters.

Birthplace of Harry Corbett and therefore Sooty and Sweep, unquestionably the finest entertainers of the 20th century. For that alone, Bradford deserves its hour in the spotlight.

I have never quite recovered form the shock of Sophocles increasing the umber of speaking roles in a play from two to three. Imagine how I must be feeling faced with this latest development !

I suspect that the overwhelming majority of people who go will simply assess their enjoyment on whether or not they enjoy the spectacle, what they hear and the experience of being in a large happy crowd. I […]

Brotherhood of Man

Ah well, no quadruple this year. Still, it’s an achievement of sorts to play three finals ( and win two !) without scoring a goal.

If the Champions League were to revert to Champions only then I think it’s safe to assume that a European Super League would be set up pronto. In all likelihood that will happen anyway, once they finally figure […]

Sean Shibe, I meant to say, before auto-correct decided it knew better.

Anyway, gave me the chance to agree with Gatz that folk tickets tend to be good value. We were in the front row at Poole for the big band […]

Given that musicians seldom retire and often continue to record later in life these days, the fact he hasn’t released an album in 15 years is interesting.

Re Moose’s mention of the Goodall analysis, I think he […]

Its a geralisation, but something I have noticed is that rather more women than men really just get on with looking forward to and enjoying stuff. For a small experiment, try playing an unknown song or piece of […]

Perhaps sub-consciously, I seem to have stopped forking out for rock and to some extent folk concerts. Part of that is a desire to hear something new, but I have to say there is plenty of ‘value’ to be found in […]