Just returning quickly to the OP, I’m just at the end of the fabulous Dave Hill audiobook biography and he made the point, many times through the book that Don Powell had amnesia most of the way through the […]

….but surely a proportion of his salary is already indirectly paid by Coke with all the sponsorship. Perhaps he doesn’t know that the money doesn’t just come from ticket sales!

It’s interesting that, had anyone else done that, I would have considered it entirely reasonable to move it but as he seems such an arse it seems both arrogant and pathetic.
It’s all down to how you perceive him beforehand.

I quite like watching the tippy tappy game when it’s done well (and fast). When Arsenal were at their recent peak, playing their home games on a snooker table I thought it was a great spectacle. The trouble is […]

I think my point was that if, when I was 34, my mother had made a public statement about something that happened at work ( however unpleasant) i would have been horrified as I wouldn’t have considered it to be […]

Concerned parent?! Kasper Schmeichel is a 34 year old multi millionaire! Where else would a parent be commenting about a problem in their offspring’ s workplace?

Surely Marcus Rashford has got all the medals he deserves for his work on the pitch and he must be one of the youngest ever to have one for his work off it as well. I’d like to see him get a winner’s medal for […]

Reading this thread reminds me of how few double albums I’ve got or know. In fact, apart from live and compilations, I reckon the Clash double and triple are the only ones I have.

It’s interesting to hear so many people say how influential it is. Personally, I’ve never ventured any further than the singles as they I file them under ‘dull’ . I’m now wondering if they’ve influenced other […]

I like all phases but my personal favourite era still remains ‘early jerky’. Probably wouldn’t have bought all the albums (and all the Fuzzy Warbles) if they hadn’t moved on though.

Sparks is obviously the right answer (what was the question?!) but do they really count as way back on album no 5 they swept through a whole gamut of styles, many of them they’ve returned to over the years. “Looks […]

We had them for my final year bash at university too. There were no complaints from me especially as the headliner the previous year was the underwhelming John Miles. I think the Christmas bash was Slade who were […]

I’ve not followed it as closely as you obviously have and the teflon* nature of the current cabinet suggests that individually they won’t suffer much but there seems to be a lot of proper evidence that there’s a […]

I find the Release Radar playlist very handy and it’s served up several tracks in the past from people unknown to me that I’ve even ended up seeing live. There’s a similar one that ‘No Depression’ curates on […]

I’ve just started having the same problem on one of my PCs. Lots of others are as well so I expect it to be fixed quite quickly.

I always go through the “10 albums to stream this week” in Paste. I’ve heard quite a few albums I’d never have heard otherwise.

Having thought about it, although I bought a lot of my early vinyl from WH Smiths I don’t think I ever bought a CD from them.
I have great memories of browsing through the pop and rock (that I couldn’t afford) […]

I would think that hell would need to freeze over before Cliff did the BBC any favours.

It’s amazing how many times the answer to an Afterword query is Sparks.
1974 saw Kimono My House in May and Propaganda in November.

Ramones did it as well in ’77 with Leave Home & Rocket to Russia.

An ex-colleague was an advocate of conversion kits. He just took an existing bike and converted it with a kit from Ebay. I’ve no idea if it was as good as an off the peg e-bike but it was considerably more […]