The problem was not enough young people could be bothered to get off their arses and vote

Ironically, the morning’s Times carried an obit for BoM’s Martin Lee

Very nearly. Saw my first footie match in Aug 64 and he retired aged 50 in Feb 65. Unfortunately Cov where in D2 and Stoke were in D1 so never got the chance to see him play

Boris Johnson was supposed to be being interviewed by Laura Kusenburg about his new book on BBC at 7.30 tonight. Silly Laura sent Bojo her briefing notes and they had to call the interview off. Maybe Andrew […]

@Chrisf While he never made it into the first team, DI used to be Cov City’s youth team gk in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Actually saw him play in the home leg of the Youth Cup Final Vs Spurs at […]

@Colin-H First among Eeeeeekuals

If he’s like other vegans of my acquaintance, he’ll be too busy boring people rigid about the perceived benefits of his chosen lifestyle to listen to any records

Struggle to understand it myself but when 50% of Michael Jackson’s catalogue cost US$600 mill, US$400 mill looks like a bargain

I tale it you know the hoary old joke about why Methodists don’t fuck standing up @salwarpe?

If Sony own the rights to the name and decide that a tribute act like the Australian PF Show are eating into their revenue stream, they could presumably charge TAPFS for usage rights or demand they cease and […]

Worth every penny im(ns)ho

More confusingly still, not one of them looks remotely like Pink

In fairness to DG, he gives an awful lot to charity so maybe I was a bit harsh in my earlier post. That said, when Clare Torry agitated for a decent retroactive royalty on her ad libbed vocals on Great Gig in […]

If there is a heaven, JP will surely be there

Interesting that she chose one of the safest Dem States of the 50 to vent her brand of confected outrage

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have embarked on their Farewell Tour

The Australian Pink Floyd Show seem to have done OK for themselves. Wonder what – if any – impact the “likenesses” element of this deal will have on such tribute acts

Money being the only thing he and DG seem to agree on, he was presumably on board with it.

That said, US$400 mill looks a good bit of business on Sony’s part