It is, it’s up there with One Step Beyond and Absolutely. Who’d have thought, after 30 years?

He might not be very personable as a producer, but he’s helmed some crackers. The Goya Dress album is massive chez Fenton.

Happy Mondays complained of him continually peeling tangerines in the studio (Cale was […]

Without wanting to start off a new Me Too thread, Fiona Bruce has an appeal to gentlemen of a certain age (such as myself). If she ever fancied a bit of rough (comprehensive secondary, vocational first degree, no […]

Cale has done loads of producing, many of them are personal favourites. Even if he hadn’t been in VU, he would be recognised for that.

Yesterday: “The vote will not be delayed.”
Today: “The vote will be delayed.”

Today: “There will not be another referendum.”

It’s all going swimmingly, isn’t it? Anyone with a crystal ball care to predict the future?

Does Nicola Sturgeon have a theoretical physics background?
Being simultaneously in and out* is something called quantum mechanics, as popularised by Schrodinger and his cat.

(*) paging Moose

Thanks for the tip-off. I’m quite partial to major triads played over 4/4 when driving, but it sounds like I’d be better off going elsewhere.

I think all you need is Google Images to get a pretty good idea.

I saw their very first comeback gig in Brum, with my school friend and fellow Buzzcocks devotee Matt.

Matt was at Aston uni, which was handy. Frankly, if their first gig had been in Timbuktu, we’d have been […]

There’s never any logic to it, sadly. I think reading The Daily Mail shrinks the part of their brains which applies logic.

My mum’s best friend is a Polish immigrant who can’t read or write English. She’s been in […]

Along the same hypocritical lines, the biggest racist in my family is my 95-year-old maternal grandmother, born and raised in the East End of London, who told anyone in earshot about the first time she saw a […]

Yep. Someone has to stand up and say “we’ve done due diligence and all the options are worse than the status quo, so we’re doing the pragmatic thing and cancelling”. I live in hope.
Probably politcal suicide, but […]

I spy a new thread: polished turds we love.

Indeed, yet they still released stinkers Mad Not Mad and The Madness.

Although don’t I remember* their main composer/musician left around the last album? To put it in terms we’d understand, this is equivalent to Mike Barson leaving Madness.

(*) I don’t care about them enough to look it up.

A bit of highlife guitar in western rock – are they the new Vampire Weekend?

Small point: the architecture of Fitzwilliam Hall isn’t actually brutalist, despite being designed by the bloke who did the National Theatre. It is a modern (for 1963) modular flat-roof design in brick, with most […]

And here’s me hoping* it would be about the Canadian Hippity-Hopper.

(*) not really, obvs.

I took the future Mrs F to a Morphine gig in a shitty venue in Islington when we were courting. It was hot, smelly and uncomfortable and I thought the game was up for me. Thankfully, she absolutely loved them and […]