Alexsd Patredis. A critic I’ve always enjoyed reading. Always read him even if not interested in the record under review because always learn something or am amused by a turn of phrase, Quite a feat to be able to […]

If the numbers on his Patreon page are to be believed Danny Baker must be making at least 9,000 Euros a month through the site. Blimey. No lockdown blues there.

The Eno brothers channelling the Wind of Change hit makers…

Teenage Fanclub. Not disregard but under-exploitation. They did lovely vinyl plus 7 inch single reissues of their Creation albums a couple of years ago. I have neither the equipment nor the ears to say whether it […]

Thanks very much all. Much appreciated. Junior’s playlist is already proving to be the entrance to what promises to be a very long rabbit hole (though struggling to get past the Orchestra Super Mazembe song which […]

Wow. That looks amazing. Will give it a whirl. The Congo, Ethiopia and Nigeria were what stuck but I never became an expert. But am happy to explore further. Feel like learning something basically!

I have very fond memories of my then much younger girls singing happily (and endlessly) along to some perfectly pleasant pop music. True, I can only remember What Makes You Beautiful. But they (and High School […]

Haven’t regularly bought a music mag since the demise of The Word (is that ten years ago now?!) and probably haven’t bought Q in 20 years. But it was an enjoyable part of my journey:

Smash Hits: I’ve discovered […]

Fair enough! Definitely a case of ‘personal favourite’ v ‘objectively best’. Billy Wilder could easily have filled my top ten, but there’s simply no film I’ve seen more times or makes me happier. Or has had a […]

Well this is stupidly hard isn’t it? Perhaps we need this one by decade. Or better still by genre…

1 – North By Northwest – 1959
2 – Avanti! – 1972
3 – Sunset Boulevard – 1950
4 – A Matter of Life and Death – […]

The elephant in the room is whether this is sustainable. Lots are clearly labours of love, interest and enthusiasm and I assume people aren’t expecting a living. But some are professional endeavours or likely a p […]

That’s flipping gorgeous. Thank you. And thanks to your post discovered there’s also a lovely version of Manic Monday. Looking forward to more of this.

Delighted that my beloved Fannies have aged better than the more celebrated oasis/blur/pulp/supergrass axis. No surprise of course but niceto be proved right. :=)

It’s really good, and I’m enjoying it massively. And while it’s not a masterpiece, so far, it is album 39 since 62, so he’s been doing this for way longer than I’ve been alive, so something of this quality that […]

Restricting to one per artist.

1 – Antidepressant – Lloyd Cole
2 – Shadows – Teenage Fanclub
3 – The Convincer – Nick Lowe
4 – Calexico/Iron & Wine – In the Reins
5 – Public Service Broadcasting – The Race […]

Neil Young was the first of the classics I discovered. Unplugged being my first ‘New’ album of his. I bought everything going backwards and everything going forwards until Living With War. I reckon I must own […]