Has to be the Carter Family gig at the Mean Fiddler where Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Johnny Cash and not forgetting, Joe Brown joined them.
As far as standard shows are concerned, The Waitresses gig at the Venue […]

I knew it was the ‘wrong’ thing to type as I was typing it. The alternative was to say that I’ve checked the scans of my ticket stubs but somehow that seemed (and probably is) even more sad. I just figured if I […]

Yes, just checked my ticket stubs and I went on Mon 1st & Mon 29th October so it must have been 1984.

Yep, that tour certainly visited Hammersmith Palais (The Men They Couldn’t Hang were also on the bill). I vaguely recall going twice so it’s possible he did a weekly residency there for a month.

Thank goodness for Spotify. I’d rather spend my money on the new stuff rather than alternate versions of alternate rejected b sides that I’ll only listen to twice.

It doesn’t prove anything because we don’t have comparative ‘anecdotal’ or testing data.

One huge change between back in peak days and now is that there’s a far higher percentage of younger people testing positive – back in, say April, if a 20 year old got it, they would likely have carried on as […]

Walking through the shop only confirms what a useless shop it is. They don’t even seem to be making an effort to be attractive to an audience that wouldn’t have gone though the door if the PO wasn’t there.

Different moods mean I may have played something else in the meantime. I may play a certain sort of music when I’m having a shower than if I’m cooking a pizza. It just occurred to me that I’d listened to the start […]

That’s already happening in some towns. In Stevenage, one office block that stood empty for years was recently converted to flats and another that (I think) used to be council offices was converted and sold out […]

One of the problems my company has (and will have for a number of years to come) is a spike of retirements with people taking years of accumulated knowledge with them. If many of those people can be persuaded to […]

I’m in pretty much the same position as you and, although I do enjoy the hubbub of the office, especially the non work based conversations, I also like being able to wake up, have breakfast and start work so that […]

I guess it depends what you class as a single. These days I reckon it’s reasonable to use the term for a single track that’s released on it’s own and not as part of an album. As such, yes we are still downloading […]

I think it’s reasonable with a category like this that we allow the last album to be a couple of years old because, unless your name’s Willie Nelson, you’re unlikely to be releasing a new album a year.
With that […]

But the it’s likely that if you’ve started on a Mac-Mini you’ve organised your library in iTunes and you may have playlists etc that you want to use. I personally like the way itunes helps me arrange things (I […]

I went through two mac minis that I used as my music servers until the next generation was £500 more than a PC that would do the same thing. I exported the iTunes library and bulk editted the paths the files […]

I’ve just been trying to use O&O image in order to simply upgrade the an SSD from one (interface) technology to another. All other hardware in the laptop is unchanged but it won’t do it. I tried the free Acronis […]

I like the freedom of a car but don’t like driving, so I’d like to bagsy one of those Google cars that drives itself. Although anything that does the same job would suit, I’m not fussy.

As I’ve said many times, the answer is Sparks. How many songs have the word hippopotamous in them?………. and he are some more..
Unilaterally, parenthetical, hindrance, butler, glutton, stampeding, lawnmower, […]