I’m not wasting any more of my time watching England unless Ivan Toney gets to start. I’m amazed he hasn’t already quit in disgust and gone home.

I’m not so sure that I’d want to read a book about them, but what I am sure of is that National Shite Day is one of the greatest songs ever written.

I think the content is a bit of a red herring. It’s the phones themselves that are to blame more than anything else. You only have to see kids walking to and from school to realise that the mere act of glancing […]

Try to imagine Jeff Beck playing this. As far as I know, no guitarist has ever covered it.

I think you mean a medley. I’d rather hear King Crimson doing it. A Fripp, Cross, Wetton & Bruford version of Curved Air’s Vivaldi would have been fun.

The entire concept of the FIFA Peace Prize is beyond parody. The only consolation is that it makes Trump look even more ridiculous. The shots of him receiving it without even a hint of embarrassment or shame were […]

He’s still alive? I remember seeing him at Balls Park College in Hertford round about 1974. Too much of a US rock sound for my tastes to be honest.

My feeling is that they’re simply bands with no imagination who can’t write their own material. I’d make an exception for Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, because that’s obviously a labour of love rather than […]

What a disappointment. This is all that came up after searching for Sleeper.

“To The Lead Singer of Echo and The Bunnymen, Dear Mr Echo …”

Lankun – Beardy, Irish, finger-in-one-ear music that smells of Capstan Full Strength, old socks and mothballs. Their first song was revenge on the English for subjecting suicidal audiences in folk clubs all over […]

Heilung – pagan crusties in need of a good wash. Just what the world needs. I bet they smell of wee. Fontaines DC – actually a rather good band with some interesting sounds. Unfortunately spoiled to a great […]

I think it makes perfect sense in a way, because Trower is almost the antithesis of Fripp. Fripp is aiming to achieve entry to some higher mental plane through sheer mental discipline and physical dexterity, […]

They’re available to me. Yes, Precious Gift does sound like Hendrix, but it’s almost as if he was thinking, ‘If they keep accusing me of copying Hendrix then f**k you – I’ll bloody well play like him’. That’s t […]

First of all, this Hendrix thing; I just don’t get it and I never have done. He sounds nothing like Hendrix; it was simply an off-the-cuff remark made by a lazy journalist and it stuck. The Trower tracks I like […]

I think The Goons achieved its status simply for being the first comedy of its kind, where routines didn’t always have to make sense and where there wasn’t necessarily a punchline. I can remember when I was 12 or […]

I love that guitar sound.

This is odd because I saw something about Hipgnosis a year or two ago, possibly on Sky Arts. To be honest, the album covers didn’t look anything special at all. I remember them mostly from the Harvest sampler, […]

The contents of that tape looks poor value, even if it was free. However, I do remember another free tape from the NME, including Freak Scene by Dinosaur Junior and Teenage Riot by Sonic Youth – my favourite v […]

I think it was probably because Peter Gabriel’s lines, “The night is young, why are we so hung up in each other’s chains? I must take her, I must make her while the dove domains” are badly over recorded to the […]