You are right @Mike_H it was A Word in Your Ear event at the Slaughtered Lamb in 2013 (just googled it). I also saw The Silver Seas at a small venue around that time (Danny Baker was guest host). Speaking of which […]

The hand of ace songwriter/musician/producer Daniel Tashian very evident. He was also the man behind Golden Hour By Kacey Musgraves. He did a solo gig at the Lexington some years ago and I had a really nice chat […]

I would ( Uncut end of year audit report – 1 copy of the JM special sold at WH Smith’s Harpenden )

You know how Spotty plays something similar after an album finishes? So at the end of the Eddy album it went into I Trawl The Megahertz. Worked quite well. Liking the Eddy album – at times a bit like The Delines […]

This sounds fab – I love a mixtape. If I don’t get a tracklist though it will drive me bonkers. For example what is playing at c 1:04? I’ve just randomly opened it at that point ( I also read newspapers back to front)

I’ve bought it but only cos you lot have been banging on about it ! I don’t need it and would never have know of it’s existence otherwise – so thanks a lot. It can join the many other similar pointless guide […]

This combination sounds so good on paper that I fear listening to the actual record in case it disappoints

Personally I’d just get a plumber in.

Wow duly impressed!

Thoroughly enjoyed this chat boys if only because its the only time you will ever hear Terry Wogan and John McLaughlin mentioned in the same sentence. You are far too modest about your own musical abilities though […]

Oh yeah – I told you my memory was bad.

Great idea for a thread Ive got a few of these Im sure but as ever my memory lets me down apart from this. The eponymous and only album by Eg and Alice. For some reason its not available to buy new and not on […]

Bryce Dessner guitarist in The National is also a renowned modern classical composer – not the easily digestible soundtrack style but proper heavy modern classical stuff.

When I wrote the opening post in the recent ‘Musicality’ thread I was going to use the comparison of Free and Bad Company of how a superficially similar band failed on the ‘M’ test ie BC seemingly had all the rig […]

I did go through my best of the year from 2010 and agree that very few have stood the test of time and one or two I couldn’t even recall. Probably be the same with films books and TV. But agree that is still fun h […]

How disappointing that we have voted WS No 1 – that puts us in the same league as those boring ‘best of’ poll that have Sgt Pepper or Pet Sounds as No 1. We all secretly know that The Pearlfishers were No 1 – […]

Ive only listened to 2 of the last bunch – OND which was good (I suspect you’d get lynched on this site if you said anything less than that) and Yola which I thought was quite ordinary at the time so I guess […]

That Virginia Astley album is a milestone in the development of ‘ambient’ music. Came out in 1983 but for a long time was really hard to find (its still not on Spotty). Lovely stuff.

Have just finished a random sampling of @Duco01 recommendations and as in previous years have found some real beauties. This time it was Andrew Wasylyk ‘The Paralian’; Penguin Cafe ‘Handfuls of Night’ and Vic […]

Seems an obvious one but can’t recall if weve done Gigs ?