Even the wielding of a Keytar (or similar) cannot diminish Herbie’s status as my evergreen polymath funk & Jazz genius of choice!

I watched Herbie Hancock on the iPlayer last night, with a good pair of headphones on.
That was my set of the festival, and if I’m honest the players seemed on an entirely different level to anything else I saw t […]

Macca was fabulous- let’s not forget he’s just turned 80 ( so any minor vocal croaks can surely be forgiven).
I couldn’t be classed a particular fan of his or the Fabs, but you’d need a heart of stone not to ackn […]

Just watched about 10 minutes of Yves Tumor on the iPlayer- almost mesmerisingly awful & therefore bordering on entertaining. But only bordering.
Very glad to be on the sofa at home.
I’m sure it’s still a ter […]

As Rik ( in his Peoples’ Poet persona) said as the audience shrieked
‘They laughed at Lenny Bruce!’

Also said of Gerald Ford (possibly by Clive James?) that ‘he looks like the first guy in the movie to see the monster’.

I never saw the Pistols (I failed after being misdirected on the S.P.O.T.S. tour later) but I did see The Damned fairly early on & they were blistering & incredibly tight- older brothers of friends who’d seen b […]

I’ve always adored this track & don’t care what anybody else thinks – it’s one of his best!

To answer the OP, round about when the Ewoks won the day in the 3rd one.
After the refreshingly bracing tone of Empire gave the yarn a little bit of heft (just a whiff of menace to offset the bickering droids […]

I’m sure someone of note once said ‘ Stan Getz is a nice bunch of people’.
(I think I’ve heard this comment about Jagger as well, but more concerning his ‘Zelig’ like Chameleon nature, sometimes Mockney, so […]

Fell foul of all the EasyJet cancellations this week – very tiring, quite stressful & a little expensive, so once we got safely back nothing soothes better than some gorgeous Rocksteady (a nice Curry & Rioja […]

It’s always a good time for Art Pepper IMO.
It’s hard to find a more graphic example of the distinction between a completely messed up life & the production of sublime music/art.

Letraset Boner.
TMFTL, for sure.

I love it.
Have a dear old pal who’s a native & always relish a visit at least once a year.
The curries are spectacular & my pal who knows about these things (i.e. beer) always steers me towards excellent m […]

Why I oughta…!

Danke Schön peeps!
Can’t beat the AW when you’re in a fix!

Certainly less likely to cause Elton Wellsby to have an aneurysm live on air, back in the studio!

Ruud Gullit, fairly useful in footballing matters was asked decades ago in a TV interview
‘But Ruud, what if?…’
His reply was ‘In the Netherlands we say, ‘If my Grandma had a dick, she’d be my Grandpa’’ e […]

I think it was Danny Baker years ago who observed just how strange it must be to be Stevie Wonder (putting aside his disability & musical genius for a moment). For almost as long as anyone can remember, literally […]