Before this evening I’d never heard La Grange. What a song.

Ditto. The canonization of McCartney continues at such a pace that it’s going to be like Diana all over again when he finally leaves us.

For a long time I was a bit against Barney Hoskyns due to the below extract from Repossessed by Julian Cope. Poor Julian Cope, bad Barney Hoskyns I thought.

But since then I’ve grown up a bit, read several of his […]

This is a fascninating read if you want to understand (ish) the sounds coming out of your children’s TIk Toks.

Clearly pooroldl Raye as been put into the (feat.) category by her label. One of her (feats.) has over half a billion streams while plenty of others are 100 mil+. So they’re basically trying to piggy back on the […]

Agreed. My still most shared video is Tracey Ullman’s Overley-woke support group. Which has now probably been cancelled. Something uncomfortable and odd is happening.

@jaygee I was flippant but broadly agree with you and that’s more or less what I meant by the strangest music story of recent times. Unremarkable bloke from unremarkable band feels obliged to stand down for […]

But a new musical Laurence Fox in the making is surely worth a giggle. I look forward to his common sense approach to the culture wars….

There’s that. But also this.

Is this the strangest music story of recent times? Discuss.

The age of old music has stopped shocking. The Beatles were over before I was born. I was 5 when Elvis died. Still listen but it’s officially old. It’s the inbetween stuff which gets me. A few […]

Sounds like finally there’s a reason to keep my Netflix subscription other than for my kids. Wahey.

I’ve discovered the secret to eternal youth (besides shaving a white beard off). My partner is 5 years older than me and is by a distance the youngest of her extended Spanish family. So every time I meet a sibling […]

I’ve just shaved off my (very white)beard because I was asked the other day if I was retired. I’m 48. I’d like to blame it on being a brit in a village where you wouldn’t normally find a non-retired brit (or any […]

To make a change from the classic rock how about some late-eighties indie ivory tickling?

During hard lock down in madrid last year I didn’t see my kids for two months, or my partner for three. Obeying the rules, doing the right thing. I was lucky enough to be working but it was still a monumentally […]

Back when I was twelve it felt like I was buying an ancient artefact when I bought a *single that had dropped out of the top 40*. Sharpe and Newman Change Your Mind since you ask. These days I actually have a […]

Ditto!

I own everything else but have never heard Astronauts. Am officially excited.

10 years at an all boys boarding school from 8 to 18 meant that sex was unthinkable, at least as a physical act, though we were all obsessed by the idea, and girls were unknowably terrifying. And sex ed didn’t […]