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???

Was about to say, “Christ, John Deacon’s aged!” but then I see it’s the sculptor (because Deacon had the good taste not to get involved in all this posthumous grubbiness).

For a modern take with some Canterbury influences, try PAUW or Syd Arthur.

What I remember is that when Q reviewed the remastered CD releases a few years later, the ratings were pretty much reversed with the peak Gabriel albums getting five stars and a gradual decline down to one star […]

Saw them in Cardiff on Monday night. I’d say it was like going back to ’68 but actually, it probably sounded a million times better given the advances in concert sound reproduction since then. In fact, there were […]

I saw Crim in 2016. Despite being a drummer, despite really admiring Gavin Harrison’s work and, to some extent, Pat Mastelotto’s, it really was Too Much Drum, particularly when projected from the front line. Only […]