Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts?

Well, Miles did take part in the recording sessions for PiL’s album Album, at the request of Bill Laswell, but never made the cut. Tony Williams of the second quintet did feature on that album, though.

Presto Music is also a good source for jazz, both physical media and downloads.

I’ve a huge backlog of post-1950 ‘classical’ things to go through. Composers include John Cage (three albums of double piano works), Terry Riley, Julius Eastman, John Adams, György Ligeti (two boxed sets), […]

Presto Music have recordings in their catalogue by 15 different Bachs bearing the first name Johann alone, plus seven other Bachs from the same era.

For the extended Platinum Jubilee weekend, the council put on three days’ worth of tribute acts on the Market Square, running from about 10am to 11pm. The majority of those that bothered to turn up were club acts […]

Having attended several concerts in Ripon Cathedral over the years, the acoustics are dreadful for anyone not sat right at the front due to the large number of pillars. The local concert society had to move out […]

Here, have a cover of the song in Latvian!

There’s also the fall-out over Nathan Gill being jailed for accepting Russian bribes. Did Gill plead guilty to prevent certain pieces of evidence from being revealed in court?

“Dear Mr. Trump, We refer you to the answer given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram. Yours faithfully, The BBC.”

I feel that there’s more to the story than is currently being let on – and that Davie has gone for something else. It’ll come out shortly.

There’s no standard way to access the BIOS menu across PCs and laptops, with various different keys invoking the menu. Additionally, some systems have a separate key to activate a boot menu. However, if running […]

The intro to The Pet Shop Boy’s rendition of You Were Always On My Mind?

Party Fears Two?

It wasn’t even the first time Beethoven used that sequence of four notes to open a work, he’d first used it to open his Piano Sonata for Four Hands, which was published about 10 years earlier.

Frank Sidebottom also covered it. Yes he did, he really did! Thankyou!

I Heard It Through The Grapevine? Brown Sugar?

Black Lace, of all acts, covered it on their debut EP, which was oddly produced by Freddie ‘Parrot-face’ Davies, who owned their label.

The introduction to Soul Man? The Bo Diddley riff? The Fairlight CMI orchestral stab sound, which was lifted from a recording of Stravinsky’s Firebird on Classics for Pleasure?

The guitar riff from Don’t Fear The Reaper?