Number 2 has to be Cliff’s We Don’t Talk Anymore. The most bizarre backing vocal in mainstream pop.

Cheers for the review – good stuff.

This is the sort of film that, in theory, I don’t want to see, but I just know I’ll end up going to see it.

Didn’t Morrissey himself oversee the repackaged reissues of some of his little-loved solo efforts?

I always feel annoyed on other people’s behalf when the inevitable ‘girl-hoisted-on-shoulders’ shot belches its way into view. The person behind you can’t see!

Fair play to Aswad: they did some good songs. They will, however, always be the band who were asked “do you like twats?” on a BBC phone in. They laughed, in fairness. Toby Anstis looked hurt and opined that the […]

The big problem for VAR – and I’m broadly in favour of it – is that the ‘clear and obvious error’ element seems to be ignored. Is this still the official reason it’s used, or have I missed a FIFA update?

When […]

The point has been made before that whoever wrote Westlife’s songs had the strange genius to make only the one line of the chorus – that constitutes the song title – memorable. Surely even the world’s biggest […]

She also won the Mercury Prize. And yes: that tee-hee bit is the only bit of her career I remember!

I read this obit yesterday – very entertaining. It also serves to illustrate the Oxbridge jobs-for-the-boys culture; he was a groper and a drunk, and they still didn’t sack him.

Sleeping Gas by The Teardrop Explodes fits the bill – another of those ‘singer-duets-with-himself’ songs. It’s virtually impossible to sing along to, as the vocals overlap each other, even though they’re by the […]

Back in the late 90s, I attended a wedding where the DJ had been told by the groom, in a tone both friendly and menacing, not to play any songs with ‘demonstrative hand gestures’.

All requests for YMCA, Bla […]

I think the Stone Roses had a no covers policy – I can’t recall them ever doing anyone else’s stuff live or recorded. It’s a bit easier when you’ve only done 2 albums!
Did Nick Drake ever cover anyone else?Ag […]

I was off on Friday and heard said Popmaster – well done, sir.

In parts of Manchester city centre, you can’t get a phone signal at all.

The BBC did a post-apocalyptic drama a few years’ ago. They filmed quite a few scenes outside my local Tesco…they didn’t even bother trying to make it look any worse.

Yep, another Dylan: Manchester, 1997. Just utter shite. I’ve made the point before that he’s touring just to piss people off – he knows he’s a ‘bucket list’ artist who the fan boys will always defend. He just […]

Good question. I’m a lifelong Labour voter, but what they did was, in my opinion, far worse than a slogan on a bus that was totally discredited before the referendum even took place.

From my limited understanding, the case seems vexatious at best – there’s very little chance of a genuine prosecution. Referendums aren’t subject to the same legal scrutiny as lying whilst in office, as […]

There’s a good story in Cleese’s autobiography about his ‘singing’ efforts’ in Half a Sixpence. Having proved that he was totally tone-deaf in rehearsals (he was asked if he could sing the national anthem; he […]

I like The Butterfly Collector, but am I the only one who thinks it’s a melodic rip-off of The Crying Game? I think I am, y’know.