Yes of course, and at the risk of a Python-esque ‘yeah, but APART from Some Girls…’ you’re right. Mind you, if you were to compare each setlist for Mick Taylor years v Ron Wood years, that’d tell quite the story.

In fairness, they ignore a lot of the Ronnie Wood era as well… i remember having a post gig pint after this show and working out very little from Woody’s era!

The Trouble With Harry…. Mrs Ivan bought me a Bosch book a few years ago. Really enjoyed it. It was the 10th or 11th in the series and so I went back to the start, and love them. They’re perfect audiobooks as […]

They were. I suppose in a way it was early Web 2.0 kind of stuff and the dynamics were unknown in advance. I remember people getting quite upset at down arrows because they were, as i recall, anonymous.

anybody remember the up and down arrows?

Same. He seems like a good sort, and I really wanted to like the first book. I’m no FR Leavis but I thought it was dreadful. One can’t help but feel (and this ties into the Millie Bobby Brown/Ghostwriting […]

I’ve just seen that I’ve read* The Outsider. That was good. (* listened to, actually. Which might be why I forgot Holly was in it. That was great. I mean, as per, rubbish ending but yeah, great fun)

I remember the Holly character in ‘Mercedes’ and was struck by King’s bravery in having somebody who might be a little ‘different’ well able to hold her own and be quite feisty in her own way. Putting her front […]

On the 1995 Stripped album, Jagger changes the lyrics of Spider and the Fly in *just* such a fashion. “She was shifty, nifty, she looked about fifty… “

Given the fact that there’s nothing new on Smash, I found myself wondering if Chris has impishly suggested Pointless as a title? I’ve pre ordered obvs.

We’ve two boys, one’s 3 and a half and the other 10 months.

Their mam (and indeed I) will go thru a ritual at Christmas where the lads give us Christmas presents.

Two things happened yesterday. I put on the […]

Justified is one of the finest things *ever* made for the telly and the supporting cast is top notch as well. Margo Martindale in there as well for a while, as well of lots of other ‘oh where do i know them from’ […]

I can’t remember where I read it, possibly the interview that came with the Alternative set in 1995, but Chris Lowe reckoned they should have put ‘A Wank of Epic Proportions’ as the strapline on the movie posters…

Horowitz is great.

He did two Sherlock Holmes books a few years ago and they’re both wonderful reads. His Hawthorne books and the Atticus Pund ones are good as well. Hawthorne ones are played straight with […]

Croke Park is *only* good for a gig if you’re on the pitch.

RDS, as you might know (?) isn’t a stadium per se, so there isn’t the same echo problem.

That’s my afternoon listen sorted.

Lovely writing, Tigg.

Aye, we saw Bruce in 2016 in Croke Park and the sound was atrocious as well. As soon as the Stones were announced to be playing there then, rain or not, I decided pitch was the only place to be. They looked and […]

I agree. I can’t be doing with bonhomie from the host. John Humphries doing it on mastermind annoyed me as well.

No, they all need to be like William G Stewart on 15 to 1. Polite, friendly but frankly, less […]

Well put it like this, it’s got a few decent tunes and it’s only 35 minutes long. It’s quite likely you’ve listened to worse this month already.

No. But I’ve been to THREE gigs where the artist did two dates at the venue and I was there the night that *wasn’t* recorded for sale

U2 at Slane
Oasis at Wembley
Stones at Twickenham in 2003

I was at one […]