Yep, and when I sat in the car I had a torch in my back pocket I didn’t remember putting there.

Alan Hawkshaw, 84.

I’ve been soundchecking at a gig this afternoon. I’ve come home for me tea as the headline act have brought their own soundman. Since their techical setup is frankly bonkers, I’m pleased not to be responsible. […]

It is obviously a quiet week on the BBC Local News site, as one of the top five stories is a link to a FB video about a boy whose feet are growing.

Four shoe sizes in a year. Phew!

Bernard “Pretty” Purdy is probably my fave drummer. Beck thought so, too.

Soul Drums:

The Cure did something similar on their debut album. No song titles, only images, on the rear sleeve.

My fave was the band featuring Karl Hyde and Rick Smith before they became Underworld, “Squiggle”, renamed […]

I remember Princess Di wanted Daily Express readers to vote in the Brexit referendum (she told ’em through a clairvoyant). Even by D.E. standards it was a bit far-fetched.

I can’t remember if the Ghost of Di […]

Out front is the corner of a park with a big old Oak tree. Of an evening Muntjac deer come out from the woods behind the hospital, cross the park and eat the fallen acorns.

We have Squirrels, Jay, Woodpecker […]

All of the b-sides before Blue Monday were new tracks, and all worth a listen.

After that, apart from Lonesome Tonight, Murder (not a b-side but an a-side of a Factory Benelux 12″ single) and 1963, the rest were remixes.

You’re missing out. Lonesome Tonight (b-side of Thieves Like Us) is one of the best things they ever did.

The CD had editied versions of a few A-sides due to the 80 min CD running time.

And the hi-hats were an aerosol hairspray can. And the squeaky studio lift features.

Well, it make I larf, Moosey.

{insert food/beverage here} gives you cancer.

Joe Jackson did a song about it in 1982.

You’d have thought Martyn Ware would have mentioned it before, would you not?

Oh, hang on, he does. All the bleedin’ time…

I eagerly await the European LIB SDE mountain being sold off cheap in about 6 months. The big books in the other Fabs SDE sets are great.

Marvin Gaye lived in Ostend for the 18 months before Sexual Healing.

Nowadays when I see that rooftop gig I think

“Why are there only windshields on John’s & Paul’s mics?”

I am very dull.

“Dull but worthy” Cambridge singer-songwriter, Boo Hewerdine, is responsible for Tina Turner’s 1980s comeback.

Greg Walsh was employed to produce The Great Divide’s dreadful single Whispered In Heaven. The […]

There’s a pair of scissors on, is it, The Flaming Lips?

{edit}: it was Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – She Taught Me How To Fly

The Digestive Biscuit Challenge. Dare you risk taking a free tasty Digestive from the plate on top of George’s amp? Will George swear at you and split up The Beatles? It’ll be your fault if he does!