Sven Hassel and Erik von Daniken.

Was it ‘Peardrax’? Made by Whiteways, who were based in Devon, with several plants and orchards near Exeter. They also made ‘Cydrax’. The firm is long gone, but you can still buy Whiteways drinks in the West […]

Yes, I couldn’t remember his name. I think he played with Kate Bush, too.

There’s a Steve Hackett concert on YouTube at a Swiss jazz festival, and about a minute into one track the bass player loses one string and carries on. I remember Go West appearing on The Tube back in the 80s f […]

The correct number of guitars (for a guitarist) can be expressed by the formula n + 1 = m, where n = the number of guitars already owned and m the sum of the new collection of guitars.

‘Tough on Panpipes, tough on the causes of Panpipes’.

Ditto ‘crusty jugglers’. . .

Lawnmowers and Slippermen would be an excellent name for a Hackett-era Genesis tribute band.

A great summary of Steve’s career, with which I have only one teeny objection; that of being a ‘noodler’. He can do […]

D’you know, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an episode of Shelley. Or Budgie.

Beiderbecke Connection appeared on tv in 1992, not 85. If only Edith Fnuction didn’t go after fifteen minutes.

The Go On Show as it was once announced. Gooks, yes, not goons.

Goons was a perjorative for the Viet Cong, wasn’t it? Would fit the themes in the song, but I’ve just got this vague memory of Gabriel saying he used the c-word for its shock value, but substituting goons for the […]

I thought the original album version was c**ns. I’d interpreted the song as commenting on colonial attitudes.

Alan Plater wrote three novels which coincide with the three parts of the ‘Beiderbecke Trilogy’ of tv series. I suspect that he wrote the novels and the screenplays at the same time.

The Beiderbecke Affair – […]

Holt is a prolific author, writing under that name as well as pseudonyms. He’s not quite as waspish as Benson, but the novels are not pastiches.

E.F Benson’s ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels set mainly (but not entirely) in a lightly fictionalised version of the town of Rye ended when he did, but the author Tom Holt wrote two further novels featuring the […]

‘The Bundestag on triangle’.

*ting*

‘Thanks, Angela’.

*barp-barp-barp- barp- barp*. . .

Weren’t there two Afterwords that appeared after The Word blog finally closed?

I seem to remember someone was very quick off the mark and set a blog up, which featured a green colour scheme? That then got […]

If I pay attention to Anderson’s lyrics – and assume I much very are they – it sounds like Yoda has had a major input. I can ignore them in Summer’s version, and just accept the bliss and the emotion.

I was […]

I absolutely adore her version of it, but whichever version, the words really are sense-free random noise. I appreciate this is true of many songs!

Surprised CORSAIR TINNED CHICKEN has yet to appear in these Free School Meals boxes yet.

I think Fripp released some of Bennett’s talks on record; they met not long before Bennett died. Bits of one of the talks can be heard on Fripp’s ‘The League Of Gentlemen’.