Yes, the A Virtual Landslide was a very good album. Sweet Louise is fantastic.

The Who somehow seem ‘important’ rather than plain great. Pete Townsend’s windmill guitar thing, Moon’s drumming and Rog’s shouty vocals seem to have set the template for what a ‘rock’ band should be – you can eas […]

The BBC rarely indicates when radio material – or entire shows – are prerecorded. I can understand one-offs/documentaries/late night shows being prerecorded, but when poor old Cilla died, they played O’Grady’s sho […]

Celebrity tributes are often twee, but John Travolta’s tribute to her today was rather lovely.

There’s an excellent version of his song I Don’t Like the Man That I Am, which was recorded by Pete Molinari

Yeah, he walked away from it when he wanted to, having made a pile of cash. He then came back when it suited him – and found a new audience. He genuinely seems like a decent fella.
His debut album sold over 15 […]

I’m sure she would, Jaygee, but if, as a legal firm, your ten-grand-a-day professional reputation relies on winning cases/providing sound legal advice/stopping your client losing £3 million, is is not a Pyrrhic vi […]

Guy Pearce, star of Momento and LA Confidential (two of the best films of that era), genuinely got involved and properly reprised his character across the last week. Kylie said five words, and Jason looked like […]

I could have been a Judge, Moose, but I never had the Latin. Don’t get me wrong: I was a pretentious/condescending knob – and I’d still never jail Katie Price – but I never had the Latin*

*Omne ignotum pro mag […]

Without wishing to get self-reflexive/meta (ooh, go on then), Vardy was, reportedly, paying £10,000 a day for her legal team. Surely any legal team with even a cursory knowledge of the law would’ve strongly en […]

I have nothing to offer other than to say that’s a lovely gesture, young Celebration.

The post-Beatles albums are sometimes an ‘interesting’ listen, as opposed to ‘always entertaining’. It’s worth bearing in mind that by the time Band on the Run came out in 1973, it was McCartney’s fifth album […]

I seem to recall Ian McCullough describing
Le Bon as ‘no oil painting, unless Jackson Pollock painted in oils.’ It’s a great quote ruined only by the fact that, yes, he did paint in oils early in his caree […]

My eyes are definitely going – I read that tape as Dirty Leonard at first.

I’m not going to start a new thread on this (my apologies for the slight hijack), but what do you think was the worst quiz show? Going for Gold was appalling, even if Henry Kelly seemed like a decent cove. T […]

I know a lady of a certain age who used to go to the Cavern Club to see, in her words, Pete Best and the Beatles. She wasn’t the only one.

Kev seems to have a problem letting his old stuff go. I seem to recall a Lennon interview somewhere, where he said he doesn’t like a lot of the recordings – not the songs – of Beatles songs he wrote.

Another s […]

I’m certainly not New Order’s biggest fan, but come on: if you don’t like this, there’s something wrong with you.

Anal C**t
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
Catfish and the Bottlemen (plagiarising songs is one thing, but ripping off band names is a new one)
Ken Dodd’s Dad’s Dog’s Dead

I live near Warrington, and 5ive are playing a gig in the town centre soon. There are only three of them now.