It’s an astonishing haul. There’s a lot of excitement (in the world beyond) for this unexpected stash – the general disinterest shown here is very much a Flogroom thing. If, say, even eight unknown Beatles tracks […]

The worry here is finding anything deliberately (or even accidentally) humorous in your comment, Mike! I’m guilty myself of writing with a chuckle that I assume will be shared. Sometimes a joke has to be, you […]

Yebbut you only really enjoy music made before 1965, or ’66 at a stretch. This set starts around 67, I think. It’s been greeted by hosannas pretty well everywhere except your house. as to it going on a bit – it’s […]

It’s a fantastically good set.

Available on my blog since March 5. Do try to keep up.

Yebbut who needs 329 discs of Too Shy remixes?

Ah! I know how he did this – he punched you in the stomach!

Leave Colin ALOOOOONE!!!

I think he put an exclamation point where a question mark should go.

There might be a tendency here on the Flogroom to forgive and forget the “light entertainers” (no bad thing – pointless harbouring a grudge) who dominated the telly back when there was no internet to distract us, […]

Priceless.

Mike, let’s work through this together, because it’s important to me. Big smiley face, okay?
I expressed an opinion that the personality of the magician was as important as the tricks, maybe more so. I mentioned […]

“Comments are turned off” – is that the title of a song on the album?

He was much admired by the smuggling fraternity for paying duty on just that one bottle.

Not telling, eh? I reckon it’s Doug Henning.

I feel an absolute rotter for thinking Paul Daniels is a bit of a prick, now all you agreeable coves have rushed to his defence. Maybe I’ve misjudged him? Maybe my own bitter resentment at not being a telly […]

Won’t be as good as my current Van listen:

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Who’s your favourite magician, John?

Yes, but I was using the word in the sense of small inlet, or coastal bay.

I had a much-treasured copy of that book. I like his weird edge – he’s not trying to be liked, the bane of most magicians. The personality of the trickster is as important as the trick – maybe more so. Paul […]