It’s one you have to work your way into and requires active listening – you can’t really have it on while you’re doing something else. But I think we need more music that demands engagement. Having said that, w […]

Raisin to Believe
Quiche Don’t Go
No Woman No Pie
Polythene Spam

From Queen’s “Killer Queen”

“Gunpowder, gelatine…”

That well known explosive substance used in trifles.

This from The Bride Stripped Bare

A mate of mine went to see what he thought was Michael Mann’s Heat at the local arthouse cinema. Turned out it was the Andy Warhol produced Heat from 1972. He did manage to tough it out until the end though.

Robert Altman’s Gosford Park is great up to the point where there’s a murder, then it turns to shit rapidly. It feels like two different films. The first part is an inside view of how a country house really would […]

It’s got a sense of intimacy their other live releases lack, and it manages that fine balance between sounding slightly sloppy and being absolutely on point.

Here’s a direct link to the preview tracks:

Mystery solved. Cheers!

I’m sure the version of Poor Will And The Jolly Hangman on Guitar, Vocal is slightly different to the one on the reissue of Full House

Finally succumbed to The Covis, as did Mrs Haddock. She’s now clear, but I tested positive for the first time yesterday, despite having a shitty sore throat, cough and cold for a full week already (at the same […]

It’s OK to be into all sorts of music, but this doesn’t mean you’re going to like ALL music. Common misconception I think.

I can’t understand people who like the theatre but seem to go to shows […]

There’s definitely an affinity with Springsteen’s music on Night After Night, though obvs it’s way before Nils got involved with the E Street Band. Hence the “heartland rock” label for both artists, which I’m […]

Don’t mind the references at all, think they give it context.

Currently taking a sabbatical of sorts from my freelance career, but planning to relaunch it in the next six months. My 91 year old mum now has dementia so I’ve had my time taken up with relocating her and finding […]

I think it’s one of the unofficial albums of his you can still get on Spotify, under the title Sausalito 1975. It did have an official release, very briefly, some time in the mid-noughties. I do recommend Night […]