Richard Thompson has never been cool to the mainstream. The Folk background with which he will always be associated will never be as cool as the blues, his clothes have never been as flashy as Clapton’s, and his s […]

I’ll be taking the copy I read back to Chelmsford library on Monday, the city centre one on the lower ground floor of County Hall, if that’s any help.

I remember reading the most famous section (let’s call it the one with the rope) in a camp chair on a blazing hot August day at Cropredy, and feeling deep chills flow through me in wave after wave.

I’ve said this before, but I’m sure that if one of Coldplay went back to the family home for Sunday lunch with Chris Martin in tow everyone around the table would ask each other, ‘Who’s that with Chris?’

I’ve just finished James O’Brien’s How to Be Right in a World Gone Wrong. He’s a phone in host on LBC, and unusually for someone or that calling he’s an evidence based liberal rather than a ranting right winger. H […]

So far as I can tell the only thing which commends JRM to the right wing of the Conservative party is that he irritates the rest of us so much. Have I missed anything?

When I was about 17 and these things really mattered my favourite album was Berlin. I was quite angsty, but there was some humour in this conclusion. Reed it is then, because decisions of this type made at that […]

Mrs McWhirtle’s? I’m sorry to be the one who breaks the news to you, but that’s not chocolate on the pillow cases.

Moose, you’re meant to eat them, not f888 them. I trust this information will enhance your experience of mid range hotels in future.

It is thought massively unlikely that May’s deal will get through the Commons, yesterday’s amendment means that No Deal is massively unlikely (for reasons I won’t pretend to fully understand), although the deal on […]

You can add Thompson to that list.

About half. Fewer than I would have thought as heavy rock was my gateway drug for music.

Whatever happened to Vampire Weekend? They were huge. The Light’s daughter was a fan and we went to see them at the O2 on the tour promoting their last album, then they just vanished.

Not a major concern of m […]

After Googling those cameras I feel honour bound to point out that it might be cheaper to get a divorce instead.

The general rule is that lyricists write lousy poetry and poets write lousy lyrics. Leonard Cohen did both well because he knew the difference.

Minnie Driver and Molly Ringwald are always whichever one they are not to me, but luckily it hasn’t been a major obstacle in life.

A short-term pop up shop is to open for Christmas selling the reissues. Nothing you can’t eat elsewhere it’s seems, but all in a good cause. So that’s nice.

The odd thing is that it’s not even a very Christmassy episode. The Golden Cleric, Ireland’s biggest lingerie department, Father Todd Unctious. Nothing festive about any of them. Just about the only Chr […]