I’m not an Apple user but have you tried to get Siri to jump to a point in the track? For the best bit of a U2 track, try “Hey Siri, skip to next”.

I seem to recall that he wrote ‘Almost Blue’ for Frank Sinatra but Ole Blue Eyes wasn’t keen so it was turned country.

…and that’s not the only example on a fabulous album.

Oops – this was supposed to be a ‘Nights Out’ post. I must have pressed the wrong button!

Doesn’t Teams have the functionality that you will lose when MS shuts it’s Skype servers?

In general, I think they’re a bit pointless because they’re normally they’re just a planned part of the set but sometimes, just occasionally, the artist goes rogue and takes requests.

I had the same thought and wondered if the band was the same one as I last saw back in 2019 – turns out that it is…. apparently. I think the show would be very different if he’d chosen The Residents instead!

Yes, they only do 5 songs on their own so probably 15 mins max. That means NL is playing for about 1hr 20 mins which, is no shorter than is expect if he played straight through. Even then I was surprised how many […]

Of course! The series was made back in 2021/22 and they covered each track from the studio albums in a random order. It can be a bit odd at times but I’ve learned a lot about FoW as a result. I’m about 2/3 of the […]

Fountains Of Wayne – Hung Up On You. I’m currently working through the (recently discovered) ‘Fountains of Splain’ podcast series and that’s the one they’re discussing now so I had to play it first… that’s the rules!

I prefer Nick with a band and I think Los Straitjackets fit the bill perfectly – I think the masks give them a kind of anonymous air which means Nick is the star. It never occurred to me that they had any s […]

I was astounded that 2 tickets standing in London was £109 and looking at the price breakdown, half of that seemed to be fees etc!

I haven’t used the Libre Office spreadsheet app for a while but the way it deals with macros is not the same as Excel so if you don’t use macros, fine, if you do, then you’ll have some work to do and you can’t […]

Conversely, in London, The Apollo isn’t my favourite venue (I can’t imagine that it’s anyone’s favourite!) but it’s much better than the Albert Hall where they played last time.

I’ve a feeling the album may come out after the UK dates. It says released Summer ’25. I’ve got my ticket down the front in London.

I’m a big country fan so I listened to it a few times. It’s very long. I think it might make a good 10 track album. Garth Brooks? I always categorised him as the country version of Phil Collins which isn’t […]

At work, we have a recognition system that’s accompanied by some cash. Is there a cash equivalent of an MBE instead? I would certainly not bow or scrape to someone to accept an award. I’d be interested to go to […]

If I ever see it at the bottom of an internal email, I just read it as K.N.O.B.

I rarely create my own playlists but I listen to playlists on Spotify a lot. I think of them more as replacements for the radio than replacements for albums. I’ll often hear tracks on playlists and then listen to […]