Absolutely agree about that Word CD. It was my criminally late introduction to my fellow Fifer. It still gets a lot of airtime here.

I too have one of these and find it to be excellent.

OK, I’ll play – as he’s dragged out of his COVID secure cave to rejoin polite (?) society.

My first copy of the mag was issue 11 – BB King with his iPod ears in – which I found in Brighton HMV in January 2004. […]

I would like to be associated with these sentiments – and ask for two other offences to be taken into account.

At the outset – a year ago!!! – I realised that I was very likely to sit in front of the TV from breakfast through to the test card (or whatever passes for closedown these days) and that this was not a good idea. […]

In the late-90s, when we moved to the mid-sized Sussex market town where I still live, there was a pleasing mix of national. regional and local shops, spread around an attractive town centre with lots of space, […]

This marks the loss of a true giant of British music and one with astonishing longevity. I can remember first listening to his music in the 60’s and then revisiting him over the next thirty years before finally […]

My timetable means I won’t be eating until 4.00pm, so no more very fresh air for me!

In the meantime, i’m sipping my Pol Roger and listening to assorted Christmas tracks. It’s definitely beginning to feel a […]

These Christmas Greetings come to you from a brilliantly sunny but bloody chilly West Sussex.

Somehow being promoted to Tier 4 seems less of an issue on this of all days. I have spent the morning catching up […]

It’s been called. He’s now a pile of burnt orange breadcrumbs! Pennsylvania – Biden’s home state – has turned blue. Now for four years of different deadlock!

Despite being an avid fan in his early years, I rather lost touch with Bob in the 80’s. For that reason, I have found his run from Time Out Of Mind through to Together Through Life to be unexpectedly enjoyable […]

Yep, Yep

Applause! Applause!

As an alternative to Viv, I nominate a man cut from much the same cloth but with the added kudos of having survived an encounter with the Bard of Belfast. A man who, for some of us I suspect, is very much the […]

Like myself, the Great Man was a Fifer and his latter years were spent in the village of Auchtermuchty. This was on the road from Edinburgh to St Andrews and The Shand Band Van could often be seen as one drove […]

I always had Roddy McMillan – Para Handy & The View From Daniel Pike – in my head as the perfect Rebus; jaundiced, a cynic but with a sense of humour. Sadly he died far too young for the role.

A new series […]

Should be John Hannah surely? Then he could add a triumphant Lamb to his masterful Rebus! I do often wonder how on earth some casting decisions get made; there may well be a thread in here somewhere.

But if there is no MP3 option – as can often be the case with rereleases – then no track listing. Oh well, there is always Discogs, but is going to be somewhat frustrating. Why would they do this? They’ve […]

I’m in and enjoying the sense of nostalgia! Their Word In Your Attic webcasts on Youtube are also worth a look. In these interminable times, one needs to find distraction where one can!

If I have to go to the desert island, these are the 10 I would take:

1 – Blonde on Blonde – Bob Dylan
2 – Otis Blue – Otis Redding
3 – The Rolling Stones – The Rolling Stones
4 – Unhalfbricking – Fairport […]