I’ve got the same CD player in my kitchen.

The second one is Hairy Stiles

20 must be The Pogues. They were originally called Pogue Mahone which is Kiss My Arse in Gaelic – which makes them The Kisses

The record shop at the beginning is Golden Disc in Southend, the town where the whole video was shot. My brother is in queue.

The shop was owned by the very glamorous Mrs Tandy, who was a member of the Catholic […]

Haven’t they suffered enough?

As a weekly theatre goer I’d say this problem has definitely got worse over the last few years, to the extent that I don’t bother going to West End musicals any more.
The final straw was an evening at Fiddler On […]

Do you have a Freecycle or Freegle group in your area? They can be an excellent source for this sort of thing, especially at this time of year as a lot of people buy a new TV for holidays and just want the […]

Best wishes and a speed recovery old bean, it looks bloody uncomfortable.

I have palindromic rheumatism, which so few people suffer from that none of the bods in white lab coats bother to look for cures or […]

And no scandals because for the entirety of her life the press has fawned and doffed instead of you know, honestly reporting and investigating – the stuff we were told about at journalism college

LM came a cropper after losing a libel trial. Background on who they are here:

And me.
NME from late 70s through to mid-late 80s. That period gets slagged a lot these days for being pretentious but I absolutely loved it – the writers open my ears and eyes to so many records, books and […]

He’s vituperative, but this was interesting to this conversation

More an ‘inbetween being famous’ – I did see the Paul Weller Movement at the 100 Club

Is that the back of Brian May’s head in the bottom left corner?

Depeche Mode at Crocs in Raleigh before they had a record out.
Another sighting of Eddie Izzard – the Acton Banana comedy club in the room above a local boozer.
Saw The Pogues loads in the early days at small […]

I showed this thread to my daughter, a politics student particularly interested in this subject. She was just impressed we got to the end without anyone being called a paedo. “Excellent work” was her verdict

You raise a good point about language and terminology in this debate – a lot of these words mean different things to different people.
It is of course quite possible to argue one is anti-Zionist and not […]

And I’m not convinced by the line that “he’s alright but he’s got some dodgy friends.
He seems as susceptible to a nice Jewish conspiracy as the next headbanger – don’t forget he told Iranian Press TV “I suspect […]

And why the Labour left’s relative silence about China compared to its relentless condemnation of Israeli oppression of Muslims?
Most estimates have more than one million Muslims currently detained in Chinese […]