I was the Major General in a school production of Pirates in 1991. Can still remember the words.

Also, that’s Linda Ronstadt there.

This is a great one as well. Sinead’s done a few good duets.

I’ve never found him funny and don’t get what others see in him, BUT if it’s a case that this ‘chimps as people’ thing has been a running joke for him since God was a lad, it’s not quite the same as doing what […]

Hah – i bought one of her tea-towels!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Revolution in the Head isn’t half as good a book as it thinks it is.

But actually, Steve, (he said, getting all pedantic) just because the HoC has ‘voted’ to take ‘no deal’ off the table, doesn’t take it off the table.

the options were (and events may have overtaken them by […]

Isn’t that another variant on Pachobel’s Canon in D?

But isn’t the problem that whilst you’re campaigning for ‘an alternative’ the present system allows you to only campaign for a single alternative (dictated, it appears by Jezza, but i stand to be corrected) and no […]

…is the correct answer.

I don’t think *anybody* in this group is in the target market, per se. As to the ‘high concept’ thing, if you can handle Groundhog day, and if you can handle It’s a Wonderful Life you […]

Can we talk about ‘Rap against Rape’?

*shudder*

official site says, in final paragraph, yes.

Yeah, I agree as well.

I will happily accept that the difficulties weren’t a constant (Paul dropping everything to go and cut Ballad of J&Y with John), and that they *appear* to have had fun during (most of) […]

The ‘great album openers’ thread is always a perennial favourite; my problem is that BTR as an album doesn’t hit me the same way that Darkness does, and so no matter what ‘follows’, it’ll never be good enough. […]

I’ve just looked over my Bruce plays on LastFm; Darkness is the one I get most mileage out of as well. Part of it’s down to the sequencing, I think. Although Thunder Road is one of my favourite songs of all time, […]

You’re back?

Good man. You know where the kettle is if you want to make yourself a brew.

Then there’s this one which is a funny story with a cracking punchline at the end…

Ach, in spirit more than ‘owt else. There wasn’t much in the difference as maturity goes between the Outlaws and the habitués of the Drones. Violet Elizabeth was surely a younger Madeline Bassett?

I’m saying […]

Isn’t Just William really Wodehouse but with training wheels?

(I mean this in a good way, obviously.)

Crikey – proustian rush there; an aunt bought me a book when i was but a chizzler entitled Henry and Ribsy; Henry’s obsessed with catching a chinook salmon, Ribsy is his dog and I’m almost sure his surname is […]

Aye, I’ve a C Harp somewhere at home and soon as the decorations are down, I’m gonna go find it, and a few G key backing tracks on you tube!