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 […]

One of my favourite Yuletide songs is All I Want For Christmas Is You by Maria Carey

The Velvet Underground and Nico – what Brian said.

I’ve just been inflicting the DVD of It’s Too Late To Stop Now on MrsP the architect. Halfway through I showed her Colin’s post – I suspect she may have let out a little bit of wee, she laughed so hard.

What was I thinking? It was the 87 show I saw, by Glastonbury 94 my wife was six months pregnant and we were seeing Sugar at Brixton.
Listening to this tonight while I cook – cheers young man.

That Glastonbury show was the only time I’ve seen him. Any hint where I can find the boot?

Larry Wallis died last month. Amongst a long CV, he was a Pink Fairy, a Motorhead, and wrote for Dr Feel good.
If memory serves, he was also performing solo on the famous Stiff tour.

We have lived in London for 30 years – Notting Hill then Stoke Newington – but will be moving out in around five years when Mrs P joins me in retirement.
For years we had been sure of Bridport in Dorset, but are […]

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