And say “a bit more choke and she would have started”

I prepared for all this by recording a couple of documentaries about the Grateful Dead last weekend.

My (Irish) wife has a friend back home who, for want of a better word, has friends in low places. She says all this kowtowing to the DUP could end very, very badly.

Just heard an excellent analysis/discussion of the album on Dave Fanning on RTE2. Well worth a listen.

Repairing potholes with aggregate will only last a matter of weeks at best. Even if it is done by a gravel-voiced crooner.

Not for me, I’m afraid. Pubs and breweries have suffered quite enough and, thanks to lockdown, we have lost our local microbrewery.
I see my continued drinking as a form of philanthropy.

The Monkees were the object of ridicule from us ‘serious’, Melody Maker reading fans, but their music has stood the test of time far better than most of the twaddle that John Peel championed in the late sixties. […]

The Fall.
There’s 66 of them.

Lynyrd Skynyrd and their road crew always fancied themselves in a ruck, at least when the odds were in their favour. The pound shop Allman Brothers got their come-uppance in a London hotel bar when the bunch of […]

Chieftains multi-instrumentalist Derek Bell was brought up in the Protestant faith, but became a Buddhist.

I queued for about five minutes and filled the car to the brim this morning. Excuse? I’m driving 370 miles to Cornwall tomorrow. The chap in the kiosk said he’d never known it busier.
Trouble is, when a Tor […]

I hope his guitar finds a safe pair of hands. Beautiful tone. A local lass, Sarah Smout, accompanied him on cello on some of his later gigs.

It’s just Clapton doing what he does best. Wallowing in self-pity.

Very, very sad news.

Apropos of nothing very much, bands in which the bassist is the most musically literate member;
Slade
Grateful Dead
The Who
The Beatles
Free
Cream
any more?

Signed. What a despicable woman

Golf. Then every time I won a major tournament I could make it known to all the Pringle wearing social climbing clubhouse bores what a crap sport it is. Hitting a stationary ball at a stationary hole? Pah!

Picking a fight with Cummings was never going to end well, considering how much he knows. The conspiracy theorist in me reckons Johnson might have just done it on purpose in the hope that any revelations would […]