Fingers crossed work starts coming in.

As a freelance myself I feel a little of your pain.

They say there’s only two categories of music fan.

Those who hate van with a passion and those who’ve not yet met him.

While I wish that £1 saliva test sticks were about to become widely available, I think the idea is wishful thinking on the part of the person who suggested them.

In the meantime, there was a good piece from […]

Are you in Vietnam, HP? Ho Chi Minh or Hanoi? Used to live in HCMC 20-odd years back. Wonderful place. Hope the developers haven’t spoiled it as much as the photos I’ve seen suggest they have.

Re Van – As the […]

£100-odd to see Van live up close and personal in a small intimate setting would be worth a punt as he tends to pull out quite a few deep cuts. Well he did when I saw him do a Lit Up Inside show at Dublin’s Ol […]

Have seen Van about six times over the years. At his best, he’s been spellbinding. At his worst, he’s been shit. The last time I saw him he just phoned in a 90 minute greatest hits show and was offstage and up the […]

Ferris Bueller’s Dai Off

Now all grown up and established as a UFC promoter, our ritular hero
arranges a Battle Royale between Wales’ two toughest cage fighters

Seize the Dai

Film fans band together to put an end to the Dai franchise by kidnaping its star turn

Dai Another Day

Ill-advised Welsh language remake of Groundhog Day

Dai of the Jackal

Wildlife-loving Welsh PR man relocates to Africa to try and give the
universally reviled scavengers an image makover

Wats!

It certainly is.

Those first 13 words in a Judgement in Stone started me off an a 35-year love affair with her books that only ended when she’d died a couple of years back.

Ruth Wendell – start with Judgement in Stone – she tells you the whole novel in the first 13 words

I hope that like the George McDonald Fraser estate did with Flashman, Kerr’s executors resist the temptation to add further novels to the Gunther series at all costs. At the end of the day, both Flashman and […]

Positively sublime guitar solo by Almos Garrett

The sound of silence

Was just watching her in Straight on Til Morning on Talking Pictures and was amazed to learn that she was (then) still going strong at 89. Doubtless the royalties from Joni M’s cover of Twisted must have h […]

Thanks for that. Saw him a couple of times on last year’s acoustic tour – once from the front row. As was hoping he’d be able to vary stuff from gig to gig, my only complaint was that – bar one song – the set was […]

Rory should be on the list if only for the fact that he regularly played the North at a time when bombs were going off on a daily basis and almost every other act was shit scared to even visit the place

Rory should be on the list if only for the fact that he regularly played the North at a time when bombs were going off on a regular basis and almost every other act was shit scared to even visit the place