That is unlikely to form part of a sensible, calorie controlled diet. And I speak as a fan of the steak and mushroom variety. S&K is all we get in the shops round here these days, and I can’t be doin with kidneys, though but.

Lou for ‘New York’ if nothing else, but JC is definitely a more interesting character. Fascinating biography as I recall, and how he got from where he was in Wales to where he ended up in New York is a bit of a […]

Mine used to be all sex related (I finally realised), Third Eye Blind Semi Charmed Kind of Life, Madness House of Fun and Vapours Turning Japanese. Now it’s XTCs Stupidly Happy, and Hold Steady’s How A […]

Ditto for me in Sydney – gobsmacked, I was grinning like a loon throughout, totally sold, totally impressed… it was like a modern art/modern dance interpretation of Stop Making Sense, but all about the humour. […]

It was rather rippa, if not bonza in Sydney all day today. Shame I spent most of it in a freezing office.

You’d have to love her a whole lot more to shell out AU$190 at Red Eye records in Sydney. Haven’t checked the dodgers.

Dennis Bovell is exactly where I went, seeing as wot he likes Linton Kwesi J. And it’s his Dub Band.

Nah, oojamaflips on the doovelackey. Or under it.

Course, then there’s the speed of light to consider from one end of the house to the other. It is a really big house after all.

I’m surprised the power-line adapters aren’t working as expected. Can’t comment on mesh WiFi but they do sound expensive. The Google 3-pack retails around AU$500 down here.

I’ve got a simple single Netgear WiFi […]

This seems pretty close to what I remember. But i thought there were only 2 encore tracks.

In the intro he was very clear (and possibly ironic) stating ‘we are a dance band’, and ‘you can get up’. When the SOH […]

Strange Fruit is my pick. It might be the constant flow of news that influences the thinking.

Similarly surprised by the lack of mentions of CA round here, but while he was a fixture of TV variety shows in my […]

I won’t do a new Nights Out for The The, mainly because it was a bit disappointing. Lovely as the Sydney Opera House building and the concert hall are, the atmosphere was flat as a tack. Which is odd, because Neil […]

As Willy Rushton once said while advising against mixing your drinks, “God made us in his own image, not the image of a fleshy cocktail shaker”.

Having just listened all the way through Hello, My Name Is…, I am very surprised how much I like it, never having knowingly hooked in to groove culture of any kind before. Great tip.

Agreed, but that’s not far off the strike rate for a lot of albums I’ve bought.

A good while back I loaded up my work phone with Word and Mojo discs I’d never listened to, and would sit for a long time with it on shuffle. I did find a lot of great stuff that way. Haven’t found the time lately…

Include the Americana list and I’m on three…

The albums do vary a lot in likeability, which is why I was very specific about those two which suit my tastes end to end…all their other albums have at least 2 tracks on my 5-star-faves playlist, but otherwise, […]

To the OP – Loads, although my sweet spot is still 90s. But for noughties, in vaguely descending order of frequency…
XTC “Wasp Star”
Grant Lee Philips “Nineteeneighties”,
The Hold Steady, “Separation Sunday” […]