Greatest Hits favour artists who have hits. With a handful of exceptions I could make an introductory playlist an hour or so long of my favourites to reel potential new fans in, which might or might not bear much […]

Cherry Red make a 6 CD boxset, though I confess I’m surprised that anyone would want to explore his musical output in that sort of depth.

Nick Kamen, who despite his pop career will probably be best remembered for the iconic Levi’s 501 ‘laundrette’ ad which relaunched a jeans style popular to this day, has died at the far too young age of 59.

Cuddly toy!

I finished reading the book at the weeknd. He doesn’t half race through the Richard and Linda years doesn’t he?

The tone is generally dry and quite detached. There are only two passages where he seems to let […]

Tense, isn’t it? I haven’t watched in years buts it’s blowing a hoolie outside and I’m enjoying a glass of port with the final.

Can he speak two consecutive intelligible sentences in any of them?

Nothing really unnecessary, but spending nothing on gigs and holidays, plus wfh, means that I’m sitting on a new sofa, feet on a new carpet, listening to a new mini hifi, and in the kitchen next to me are a new […]

Or sleeveless in the case of The Berry Vest of Gilbert O’Sullivan, a cover as bad as the pun.

The risks of AZ seem to be real but tiny, really tiny. The example most often given is they have a fraction of the risk of blood clots of contraceptive pills. If wasn’t even aware of the risk of clots from the p […]

But none of this is the sort of leading comic man stuff of, say, Ben Stiller, which is where I imagine Coogan thinks he deserves to be.

I thought you said it was only a double?

Not nearly as successful as he wanted to be (or from my point of view deserved). When he did character based live shows he was only too aware that it was Partridge that everyone wanted to see, and his film career […]

I haven’t heard anyone even mention the app for months, certainly not this year.

I have no ideas how widespread uptake was or if anywhere still uses it, let alone if anyone has it on all the time to get a […]

According to the theme of the Guardian weekend crossword yesterday was World Naked Gardening Day, and I managed to miss it again.

I’m sure that was carefully managed by some media person. I remember seeing an item on the TV news about how she was ‘stepping out of the spotlight’ in favour of family life when she got married. It was the first […]

In a word, yes. Why does that seem ludicrous rather than sensible? I assume you have some personal involvement to get so het up?

I have to say I’m on the side of prohibitively harsh penalties for now.

I’ve enjoyed pretty much all the stages of Partridge, though my favourite is the radio Knowing Me Knowing You. There are a handful of phrases from them which have worked there way into my internal dictionary of q […]

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