There’s a trio album coming in the spring.

Welcome, Samakka95. Don’t worry about how. In the words of Eric B. & Rakim or, later, Ian Brown, “it ain’t where you’re from, it’s where you’re at”.

James Grant – Does It All Add Up To Nothing? In the words of my Mastering Engineer chum, the whole My Thrawn Glory album is “heart-breakingly beautiful”

I’m just going to pop this in here: Graeme Thomson’s book, Themes For Great Cities, is fab.

Blue Rose Code is the nom-de-stage of Ross Wilson. Lovely fella. I’ve done the sound for him a couple of times. He makes a lovely cuppa.

That’s a sort of best of the two, isn’t it? There’s also a similar USA compilation I saw on import called “Themes For Great Cities (Definitive Collection 79-81)” which has bits of Real To Real Cacophony and […]

They missed out “the Love & Pride Hit Maker” – I didn’t recognise him without his spray-painted Doc Martens. There’s a bit of Chaz & Dave about Tooting-born Rachel Keen. “Singer Raye gave them a seasonal […]

Is this where I get to say…? First date: Dream Warriors. Last date: Ned’s Atomic Dustbin.

Thanks, Foxy, saved me a job!

You could almost say they were not the same band, what with drummer Brian McGee leaving after Sons…/Sister… Mel Gaynor has a lot to answer for. My general guide is Derek Forbes on the bass: good, anyone […]

As I’m sure I have posted before, you can sing the words of The Wombling Song to the tune of Changeling. Jim even starts it off for you, the cheeky scamp. “Overground, underground, Wombling free…”

If I remember correctly, Glyn Johns did a lot of pro-bono production/engineering work with them early on, it sounds like CD4 might finally see him get paid (although, knowing Cherry Red, probably not much)

He really is a good sort. If you’d have told me in 1984 that 40 years later I would be following him, of all people, on something called Social Media, I’d have had your bumps felt.

Three old fellas going down the allotment shed for a cuppa and a laugh.

It sounds like you have stress right now, to further complicate matters. I have reached a kind of knife-edge equilibrium where one stroppy work email is all it takes for my guts to churn.

It’s been bottomed out (SWIDT?) for a few years, but the meds will eventually wear off and I’ll have to switch to something a bit more side-effecty. Most people get about 10-12 years, and I’ll have been on them […]

We started retirement planning 12 months ago (Mrs F wants to pack it in at 60, which is less than two years away). I’d not considered it before, but I’m now looking forward to it. I still have at least five more […]