Wife: N Irish ; Irish Passport
Son ; Yorkshire but, thanks to the above has an Irish Passport (when he went to Austin Tx for a few months he reckoned, quite rightly that the Irish have upset far fewer people […]

You’ll never see a drayman drinking straight out of the bottle. He should know what it’s like in the storage area of a pub.

He had no redeeming features, but you have to feel a degree of sympathy for someone who had to join Hawkwind for financial reasons.

I’ll save my prayers for the unfortunate people looking after him.

A stick of uncooked rhubarb, dipped into a paper bag with a few spoons of sugar in it.

“What did you have for school dinner?”, my grandson was asked. “Ice cream with bread round it”, he replied.
Turns out it was arctic roll.

I’m sure Philips had hoped they’d get more mileage out of the cd than they have.

He fought his demons.

I was going to ask if Vin Garbutt was still persona non grata, but assiduous research shows he’s no longer with us.

I was at the ODG yesterday!

My son used to work on Emmerdale and got to know Freddie quite well. A lovely chap, he says.

I remember the wretched Five Star on a children’s phone in programme. One astute youngster asked “Why are you so f*****g crap”?

I wonder what would have happened had they put Kylie on at Reading 30 years ago? The bottles would have been flying!

OBE? Pah! A mate of mine got a CBE for polishing the seat of his pants in the Civil Service for 30 years.
An award isn’t worth a bucketful of warm spit.

We saw him at Colne Municipal Hall. They used to have damned good gigs there – Steve Earle, Albert Collins, Albert King. I could go on.

As we left the gig, I heard a man saying to his 12 or 13 year old son; “and that’s what happens when you take drugs”

Blue Horizon label!

Never saw Fleetwood Mac – I was due to in 1968, but was hospitalised the previous night after the car i hitch hiked home in crashed into a lamppost.
I believe that Spencer’s main contribution was on stage […]

I thought it was fab.

Subscribed.

When you do the “5th Beatle” podcast, I hope you will include Donovan, who taught them all they knew.