1- Imperial Bedroom – Elvis Costello
2- Get Happy – Elvis Costello
3- Graceland – Paul Simon
4- Bring the Family – John Hiatt
5- Girlfriend – Matthew Sweet
6- It’s a Shame About Ray – The Lemonheads
7- R […]

And then Shelby does it again with ‘I Don’t Want To Hear About it Anymore‘. Reduced me to tears at Bush Hall performance when touring over here.

Now we’re motoring…

Miss Ross’ ‘I’m Coming Out’ starts as the soundtrack for a queue on the slip road before its throttle opens up and it bounces into fast lane cruise’. Sort of music that makes you want to […]

What’s your Number 1? And why?

For me, I feel I achieve high levels of wellbeing when I’m channelling Olivia Newton-John, particularly when the song starts to soar and I change up a gear vocally and mechanically.

1 – Blood on the Tracks – Bob Dylan
2 – Sticky Fingers – Rolling Stones
3 – Layla – Derek and the Dominoes
4 – Who’s Next – The Who
5 – My Aim is True – Elvis Costello
6 – Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie
7 – H […]

Way too early for apportioning blame. And who exactly do we think would have done a brilliant job showing foresight and decisiveness, kitting out the NHS by the end of March and saving everyone’s life – Jeremy bloody Corbyn?

55 – which makes it funnier..

My fourteen year old self asked my dad to buy it for my birthday, a last minute request as he left the house in his pinstripe suit to drive off in his Triumph Stag to oversee his little business in Leamington […]

Welcome Interstate Managers is a joy…

If you are not regular listeners to the marvellous ‘Backlisted’ podcast, you should be. So much love for books and authors, always presented with real intelligence and wit. And there is a great edition on J. G. […]

A brilliant band that turned out pitch perfect pop songs that are among the best ever written. The aforementioned Hackensaw is just the saddest song and Richie and Ruben another beautifully crafted skewering of […]

No. It’s underwater.

The honours system is an irrelevance frankly. The interesting thing is that, with huge clothes pegs on their noses, huge numbers of people have democratically voted against a party whose policies (at their most […]

‘Oh no, he’s flounced again!’

*it was always a ‘he’*. We haven’t had a big flounce for a while now…

One from less politically correct days with an arrow to the side: ‘I’m with the FPO’

Is it OK to reveal at this tumultuous time that after six previous series they are all still speaking French – provocative fuckers..

Need Sonny Boy Williamson. ‘Checking up on my Baby’ playing loud – stormy days and nights, indeed…

Thanks, Nige…

Isn’t Ron in just terrific form, everybody?

If I wasn’t up in the hills with dodgy signal I would be posting a video of Rod & The Faces’ “You Can Make Me Dance, Sing, Anything” where Ronnie Wood’s guitar scribbles tunefully all over the verses before he […]