If I had to live in a town, I think Bridport would be my number one choice. South Street would be nice, just where the Wednesday and Saturday markets peter out. Loved the town since holiday visits to West Bay in […]

Car numberplates.

These often appear in a non-specific style and format, not pinning the car down to one country. Also, the characters chosen on these plates are such that the numberplate would read o.k as a […]

Steve Hackett used an ‘Optigan’ keyboard on records and live. Made by a subsidiary of Mattel as a domestic product, it used transparent disks as a sound source, the sound being recovered from the disk in a similar […]

The Dukes perhaps also inspired XTC to make ‘Skylarking’.

Pfft. Uncomfortable and undignified, but hardly in the same league as giving birth. Glad all’s gone well. The wait for results after scans, blood tests et al is bloody awful.

They used to be all over Radio 4 like a rash, back in the day.

Oh, sorry, Instant Sunshine. ‘What you must do is tune to Moneybox’.

Noone ever comes to see me. . .

You have my sympathy; have had its close cousin Flexible Sygmoidoscopy (three more from them later), and two colonoscopies.

‘Mole From The Ministry’ and ‘You’re My Drug’ I think are my faves.

I’d love to have heard a pukka version of the ‘bubblegum’ album they pitched to Virgin. ‘Standing In For Joe’ made it to Wasp Star, and […]

Oh. I thought that the solo on that was by Walter Becker. Whoever it was, the 12in version is one of my all time faves.

Dara also resembles the cartoon figure seen on the back of those motorway-bothering ‘Megabus.’

Blue Monday, on 1930s instruments.

‘The Sound Of Vinyl’ site has it for £29.99, which is still too much for me. . .

‘Our’ HMV had Genesis’ ‘Seconds Out’ when I was last in, and it was – from memory – well over £30.

The last remaster of it on CD sounds really good and I’m sure the vinly will too, but I wonder if Steve […]

Though John Arlott probably couldn’t dance ‘The Old Bamboo’.

Portachio sketch, Big Train.

I’ve thought of one or two (tell us, tell us both of them).

Kraftwerk – Aerodynamik. The very start of it, with just one synth playing – dit-di-dit-di-di-di-dit-dit.

XTC – Stupidly Happy. The riff at the start. […]

Must have had a serious f8ck-off truck to put it on too, as they weigh only slightly less than the equivalent volume of neutron star.

‘Fear Of Outgassing’; three more from them later.

Its another of those irregular verbs; I outgas, he poots, they fart tremendously.

I’m Juliet Olivia, and so’s my wife.

Similar thing used to be a major problem in the forms of motor-racing which toured around Europe and the rest of the world, when each team ran its own independent tour. I’d imagine this is less of a problem now […]