I suspect the whole hauntology thing owes a lot to the Picture Box theme tune.

‘Whatcha reckon, Carter?’ ‘Aye, well, mmm…’

Many years ago, there was a basement club in Taunton, and someone recreated the cover from ‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ on one of the walls. I’ve often thought of painting the front cover of ‘A Trick o […]

We have a flag with ‘Dobbin’* on, as per English Settlement’s cover, which we fly from our shed-pole. I am going to get a tattoo done one day of it. Last year, we had a new kitchen. The previous one was there […]

GNU Terry Pratchett. I’ve read all of them many times, apart from the first three and The Lost Continent. I’ve just reread ‘Jingo’, which is one of his best. The Night Watch might just be his best, but the […]

Towards the end of his non-Discworld ‘Dodger’, Dodger beds down outside the door of the bedroom in which ‘Simplicity / Serendipity’ is sleeping. He has faked her death in London’s sewers, and they are hiding ou […]

I think in the past we’ve mentioned Goldfrapp in connection with Bond themes. Especially ‘Stranger’, from Tales Of Us, where the orchestra comes in. ‘Clay’ from the same album would work, too.

I was gutted when my cassette of Ultravox’s Greatest Hits snapped. It was the version which had loads of 12” on.

Aye, I love all them three. The long version of Nowhere Girl is fantastic; when the intro goes ‘r-i-i-p’ – (the noise where Steve Hackett would slide the plectrum across multiple strings back down the fre […]

I’m not going to post links, but I think this is at the pinnacle. Yellow Pages / French Polishers. ‘Who are you?..And who’s she?’ ‘It’s just possible you could save my life’. ‘Oh, quiet…’ Hono […]

I do. With a now ancient Nikon digital SLR, which came with two lenses. I have several batteries and memory cards for it, which I take if I’m going somewhere where I might take lots of reference photos of say a […]

How wholly splendid! Choon!

As long as you follow it with that album’s ‘Merry Sherwood Rangers’. *more Crumhorn*.

When it came out, I bought the 7-inch. I love stuff that trundles along at that song’s pace. Back in the day, I managed to do a crude, longer version, using – I think – my turntable, and a couple of cassette d […]

Welcome to my brain! I love it, so don’t mind it as an earworm. Seems to have replaced the long version of Flash and The Pan’s Waiting For a Train.

Doris has never failed me yet, but if she got stuck then I’d wheel out Adriano Celentano’s ‘Prisencolinensinainciusol’. Ol rait? Boom, boom, boom, diddly-dit…

My current top four in no particular order; Ting Tings – That’s Not My Name Escape (The Pina Colada Song) – Rupert Holmes The Second Arrangement – Steely Dan Icehouse – Icehouse I’ve found that mos […]

I’m semi-retired. I’m taking my local government pension now, but still doing some paid work. I have the luxury of being able to say ‘no, sorry’. I also do a lot of design work for myself, which I sell as finishe […]

One of the tile manufacturers in the Bridgwater area in the past made green roof tiles – single Romans? Very rare now, though there’s a house about two miles away which has them. Our roof is black. They also did a […]

Probably!