We are going home tomorrow after a lovely fortnight in a log cabin in deepest darkest Lincolnshire. It’s been a fantastic relaxing break after a fairly traumatic first half of 2022.

On one hand it was sad […]

Does Read do his racist calypso?

No drugs but I do catheterise everyday. Which isn’t as bad as it seems, the alternative is a lot worse believe me. I haven’t missed a day since 2014, I’ve even done it on a moving train when we got the sleeper to Scotland.

Reading this at the moment. In turns heartbreaking and hilarious with some deluded people but also quite a few with their head screwed on.

Favourite fact, Dennis Seaton lead singer of Musical Youth is […]

Thank you to everyone for their kind words. My Mum made it to an impressive 91, and even though the last few years were blighted by dementia she never lost her love for music and especially Frank. Thank you again, […]

A very prescient thread because my Mum passed away last Monday and of course I’ve been thinking of music for the funeral in a few weeks. There’s only one choice really, Frank Sinatra. My mum absolutely loved him, […]

Queuing up to get Mike Smiths autograph for a lady friend (honestly!) at the Worthing roadshow in 1983 I think, Sarah Greene tapped me on the shoulder and asked if she could push in and surprise Mike. He didn’t […]

Readly all the way. £7.99 p/m Mojo, Uncut, Empire, Shindig, Record Collector, What Hifi, Guardian, Independent, Amateur Photographer etc etc.

You aren’t alone with the spreadsheet. I’m in my 4th year of recording new purchases on a sheet. If only for the end of year polls on here.

The new Wolfgang Flur is nicely bonkers.

This is my go-to Punk comp. A few years old now and a bit pricey but brilliant.

This is possibly the greatest single artist compilation available and only…[Read more]

Slightly ashamed but we’ve been avoiding the news. My Mother in Law has just gone into a rest home so that and work taking up most of our time. And neither feel like watching the events in Ukraine, we don’t think […]

I was working in my first ‘proper’ job (Photographers Assistant) and I ordered it from a tiny record shop in the small West Sussex town where I was working. It took a week and a half to get there.
I taped it as […]

A Samsung Watch 4 Classic. Great for notifications, and checking my steps on my various rounds. @35000 is my record.

This is the new “oh we don’t have a television and if we did we’d only watch nature documentaries” isn’t it?

Token Covid Song. Laughed for five minutes.

Don’t do Facebook but do do Twitter. 179 following, 73 followers. Including a former NME journalist of the early 80s, a band with a former member of Faust and an actor who played the Curious Orange.

I suppose I will! And thank you very much.

As I haven’t had a drink since 21st September 1988 I won’t be doing this, but my wife is. 0% Gordon’s is her tipple at the moment.

I stopped because I was about an inch away from it becoming a big problem. I had […]