That “mist” has me reading the last part of Rigid’s comment with a cut glass upper class accent in my head. I can imagine him standing at the fireplace waving a cigarette around. “Oi? It really was the mist […]

Glad you’re well, Chris. When i went for a Colonoscopy, the doctor said exactly the same thing about all men getting prostate cancer if you live long enough, so yup, good advice to go and get it checked.

Foster parent, Sisters fan and all round good guy. I’m voting for yourself Freddy.

Sorry to hear that, Mike.

My condolences, Freddy, sorry you’ve had a difficult time.

“Don’t look for it, it’s not there anymore”.

In one episode of Father Ted, Dugald is playing air guitar to Simply the Best. Ted comes in and tells him to stop. We then see Dugald taking off the air guitar and placing it against the wall.

It did get a bit silly (We’re looking at you, The Beloved and Flowered Up!) but even when it did it was still good fun. I mean, I’m Free by The Soupdragons is a piece of opportunistic fluff, but I think it’s aged […]

Pills n Thrills n Bellyaches is a great album that nobody seems to talk about much these days. I’ve still got the original CD. Has it been deluxified or supereditionised at any point? The whole baggy / late 80s […]

I think you’ll find that Violator isn’t on Bandcamp, Sewer. (I’m sorry but if you take away our pedantry, then what are we, really?)

The Boatsman’s Call is a well written and performed mature collection of songs that thoughtfully address themes such as love and faith. I just prefer the racket they made on albums like Henry’s Dream and The Good Son.

I wonder what the upper limit is on that listening age? If i spend next year listening to Al Bowly and Bing Crosby, will it come back and tell me I’m dead?

Almost as good as Celtic’s 1967.

That’s easily my favourite Beatles album. and I know it isn’t a real Beatles album, but it’s still easily my favourite Beatles album. I’m a long way from being the biggest Beatles fan on this site, but even I […]

Yup, Do The Strand, Editions of You and Dream Home are wonderful. Can’t get on with the rest.

Back in the day I had no interest in George Michael’s albums when he was putting them out. I liked some of the singles, but that was about it. I recently picked up most of his albums cheap on CD and, I’m becoming […]

That sounds plausible. 1995 would have been well into Matthew Bannister’s Great Radio 1 Reset, when they stopped playlisting Cliff and Quo and went chasing after the younger demographic. There’s a very good […]

It happens more than we may think. I mentioned on Junior’s recent AC/DC concert review that for a band that can sell out stadiums, they have had very few hits. Songs that you have heard of and could possibly even […]

I love AC/DC and I find it fascinating how well known their songs are despite the fact that none of them have been hits. Even the Clash have had better chart placings than AC/DC, at least in the UK. Highway to […]

I know what “Inter Alia” means. A professor at my university used it a lot and so I looked it up and started using it too. I used to put it in documents at work when I wanted to appear cleverer than I actually am. […]