Also weirdly author of a younger generation’s favourite Pogue song. Love you til the end off the oft-forgotten Pogue Mahone is now their third most played song on Spotify. 30 mil+ due to appearing on soundtracks […]

I certainly would!

Whatever happened to the Kindle deals threads? Can’t say I actively participated in them but there was plenty of joy and info therein. I’ve even got a new Kindle (and 10 years do seem to have brought a few […]

From an emigrant’s point of view he seemed like a breath of fresh air at the start but the moment he didn’t get behind Remain wholeheartedly, no thank you. And from what I’ve read of that interview, he sounds […]

Agree with most of the above. Absolutely loved him. I reckon the run from Peggy Suicide to Interpreter is about as good a run I can think of (and PS and Jehovahkill are desert Island disks for me). Drifted away […]

To be fair as soon as Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow fail together we’ll be in trouble again and all will be right with the world.

Here’s hoping he clings on and there’s another 97-style wipe-out. I don’t live in the UK, luckily for me (though Spain is currently lurching rightwards), and I don’t feel happy about wishing another two years of […]

Sounds like the one piece of the Word ‘universe’ that I missed. But I possibly didn’t have a smartphone at that point…

My favourite magazine ever. Have the majority of them on the shelf still but sadly lost the first 10 or so or so in a move many moons ago. It was varied, funny, not just about music, but also reignited my interest […]

Not a fan I’ll admit. The last Oasis album I heard in it’s entirety is What’s the Story and the last song of theirs I can name without using google is Go Let it Out (but can’t really remember how it goes). And […]

My favourite cricket sledge is from long forgotten (apart from this) 2 test/2 wicket wonder Jimmy Ormond. When he came out to bat on his test debut against Australia Mark Waugh (Steve Waugh’s twin) met him with […]

OK sold! Thanks

Nice review. Had this on the to buy list for a while ever since a v good review in the Grauniad. What’s put me off so far is its focus on a genre of music I know (or care tbh) little about. But by the looks of it […]

What I’m starting to struggle to understand is *why* the git is so desperate to cling on. We all know he was desperate to be prime minister/world king and thought it was his right. But surely that’s because he […]

Was a hugely into Fatima Mansions for a while but I lost touch after Valhalla Avenue and I’ve not really heard anything since (or Microdisney before). So yet again it takes someone’s sadly young death to remind me […]

That’s a big part of it isn’t it? Even in an anonymous, normal life there¡s plenty of ups and downs and more than enough regrets to look back on from middle age. So god knows what it’s like when in your youth you […]

ip33 has already provided the best wtf fact to be found in the book, but it’s also nice that Dennis Seaton seems to be genuinely happy with his position as a ladder guru, after a few struggles along the way.
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I imagine Brexit has thrown a further spanner in the works. In Spain it used to be possible to see at least some mid/lower league bands somewhere but having had a look recently as I think about venturing out again […]