Remember when it was Tom Baker, Sarah-Jane/Leela, a white console room with roundels and you were (well, I was) 7 years old? Once you accept it’s never going to be as good as that again, it’s easier to let go.

I lost interest during the Capaldi era, and nothing in the last series tempted me back in. This one is pulling out more of the stops it appears, by leaning into the canon. I heard the chatter about last week’s and […]

I really sympathise but not to the extent of cancelling my streaming sub, and I don’t think the genie is going back in the bottle now owing to the convenience and wide uptake (barring perhaps one of the major […]

I thought the USP of Bandcamp was the ability to preview a complete album and then immediately download it in a lossless format for less than the price of a CD.

Ooh, ta for the reminder. I remember reading about this when it came out, must catch it now it’s on streaming.

Late favourite film of 2019, and I’m surprised to find myself saying this in a year when Avengers: […]

Not sure what’s in Fairbourne but may be worth a visit just to say you saw it before it disappeared: […]

If you can commit to stopping, book your visitor tickets online at least a day ahead for a discounted rate.

Ah, but this run has also seen The Sisters Of Mercy and peak The Mission (Tower of Strength).

I recently watched the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror and, inspired after years of denying I liked any 80s […]

Haven’t yet heard anything from them that grabs me but intrigued to learn that Edd Gibson from FF was apparently involved in this recent tribute/reformation:

Ended up listening to all the tracks yesterday when you first posted them. Vocally sounds similar to Steven Wilson, Caravan and maybe The Beta Band; musically, often like Mogwai (Les Revenants soundtrack) at […]

🙂 When I say, “definitely not in the target demographic”, I’m kind of apologising to my own children for ‘stealing’ Billie Eilish from them. (I was playing her last night in the kitchen and it summoned the 14 […]

Have to concur with this. I thought the pickings were slim at first, having only watched Sheryl Crow, but although it doesn’t all appeal directly to me and I’m definitely not in the target demographic for some of […]

the biggest legend of them all. I didn’t get to meet you, but you were ON FIRE throughout the whole show. thank you so much, I think you inspired everyone to sing along and you definitely made us very happy❤ and your dad!!!! what a cool dad! can we find out who this girl is???💕 pic.twitter.com/d3T7Ho0iXT

— sigrid (@thisissigrid) June 30, 2019

For me, the closing section about the long-forgotten work of Don Bennett is the killer argument here – what have we lost? We’ll never know now (if indeed we were ever going to).

Odd coincidence that UMG are […]

LOL. Bill Bruford once said something to the effect that everything Yes did was always determined by the shortest path from here to MONEY (mainly because certain members spent it so freely). I saw the 35th […]

“Ripples” and even sodding “Afterglow” ahead of “Entangled” and … “Blood on the Rooftops”??!!! What is this bullshit. Half the top 10 I love, the other half not so much.

“But he sailed out of Liverpewwl, never to retuuurrrnnnn…”

I was born in 1970. My memories are of grey, smoky towns, striking workers standing around braziers in the midst of demolished factories and a general worn-out grubbiness to everything – but those have all been […]

Not sure if it exactly fits the bill but Mike Parker has a nice AA book about the history of road mapping in the UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0749574356/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_ZlJ9CbYYTB91Q
Worth exploring the […]

As a teenager, I used to spend my evenings with headphones clamped to my ears, poring over album sleeves. I could tell you not only who played on those records but who wrote each track and who produced and […]

What is that dickpole on the drums doing with his arms???