I spent my teens in Wrexham, from 1979 to 1985. I went back for a family funeral in 2022. The main difference I noticed is that it’s not nearly as violent as it used to be.

I think Afterworder @napaj lives away from the big cities, but might have some good advice.

✋ My family moved from Glasgow to Wrexham when I was 11 so I’m qualified and more than willing to volunteer.

AK/CB’s finest, as well as the correct shout for the best ever live album, but only a single. My vote for the best live double goes to MSG’s One Night at Budokan.

Brian Johnson was the choice for Bon Scott’s replacement in AC/DC because Scott had been so impressed with the intensity with which he hollered and writhed around the stage during a performance with his band […]

That sounds familiar. My sister dealt with our parents’ estate (I was a named executor but rested my powers as it seemed easier to have one person doing it all). As it happens I received a message from her just t […]

Not that I recall, though I did see hime play his own set there another year. He’s not mentioned in this write up either, if your memory needs to be refreshed (mine certainly did after 20+ years).

I saw Ronnie Wood join Dylan at the Fleadh in Finsbury Park. Did it improve the gig? Hard to tell, Captain, hard to tell.

Did he mime the sound of an oboe though?

*attuned

It’s something that struck me the other week when a group of us met at a friend’s house, quite a rare gathering these days. There were 10 of us, 5 married couple, most of us around 60 with an outlier about a dec […]

They just put pretty thin insulated mats over the ice for shows. I once had tickets to a Rush gig there which had to be relocated as a second night at the Birmingham NEC, because someone had left a pinball machine […]

A useful insight I saw on a documentary – Sarandon and Bostwick were the two key cast members who didn’t transfer from the stage show, and that makes their sense of being strangers in a group of people who know e […]

I like the film well enough but it seems a bit pointless without the audience participation*. We see the stage show most years because Mrs Gatz is a big fan. The last time was in Ipswich where some super fans in […]

If heavily made up 80 year olds are to be stricken down I can think of at least one I would rather was taken.

Anti-vaxxers, apparently. Dolly did a Covid vaccine promo (Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacc-ee-ee-ine) which is enough for people whose opinion on anything can safely be ignored to condemn her.

Terribly sad news. It’s there anyone who didn’t love Dolly?

Seeing as this thread has taken a turn into the condiments aisle, does anyone know what has happened to Geo Watkins Mushroom Ketchup? All of the big supermarkets around here have stopped selling it, including the […]