I’ve seen ZZ Top live twice, the first time at a charity gig in Birmingham where Hill’s bass was so powerful it made my trousers vibrate (hello Moose….). The second was one of the very best shows I’ve ever seen, a […]

Not sure how cycling is a sport dominated by toffs. One of the aspects of the Olympics I enjoy the most is the variety, particularly in the sports that you really see at any other time. Not sure it really needs […]

The danger of wearing the GLW’s glasses is that you lose the rose tinting that is automatically bestowed on anything prior to 1970.

I found the skateboarding quite compelling after a while. Turns out a “cab” isn’t a wine, being “Goofy” isn’t about a dog, “hang ups” don’t involve phones and a “bonk” is a short nose grind involving a quick tap […]

What this suggests is that the site may have a different attitude to risk than the residents of Andover. As a former resident of Andover this a) doesn’t surprise me in the slightest and b) implies that the […]

Pretty much all the Olympics since Mexico in 68 have taken place in August.

I wondered why the BBC coverage was so thin. Pity, their red button coverage used to be great. Eurosport’s output is good, and they are including some streamed content too. I find the BBC too reliant on talking […]

Spotify pays the owners of all the music it carries, just like retailers were paying for the cds and vinyl they sold. What’s changed is the way in which the end consumer gets hold of it.

For the most part, t […]

Meanwhile, the women’s first Hundred game saw the biggest TV audience ever – around 1.6m (with a peak of nearly 4m) and the biggest attendance for a women’s domestic game.

As someone who previously found cricket the sporting equivalent of watching paint dry – slowly – I’ve come to enjoy 20/20 and now this. It’s not for purists for sure, but they are a diminishing breed and this […]

The graphics seemed to have been stolen directly from Ceefax.

If anyone was going to be at home to the Delta variant you would have thought it would be him.

Seemed to me that the weakness in this plan emerged pretty early … “and myself if I was still in London, will visit your shop every day.” That, and opening a flagship store in Oxford Street with the USP of “not […]

I thought Sonic Boom on Spadina was the place to go. I have a very nice pint glass from there.

There’s no “Spotify racket”. There’s music companies / rights holders screwing artists. Like they did when CDs became a thing, like they did on vinyl releases.

I did wonder about that. She lost them the family home back in 2018 after losing the libel case with Jack Monroe.

She will have 10 minutes to gloat in the spotlight but she’s managed to make herself too […]

Funny old world. Blues guitarists like Buddy Guy have told the story of how they would “borrow” riffs and stage craft from other acts. But they remain “authentic”. Then came the white boys, many with a severely […]

It’s a great video – thanks for posting. Parts of it were used in a C4 documentary called “Don’t Leave Me This Way” which was filmed at the very end of Brian’s career. Quite hard to watch in places given how frail […]

I caught them just before the Scott / Priest / Tucker incarnation played for the last time in 1981. I’d wanted to see them ever since I heard the live set on the “Strung Up” LP which showed that even back in 1973, […]

I wasn’t really meaning to grouch. But it’s quite easy to slip from smile to sneer. This place isn’t the Steve Hoffman forum I’m pleased to say, but it does have it’s moments.