Great story @fentonsteve. These teenagers do get embarrassed so easily. But a 25 year gap between rehearsals was perhaps a little optimistic. Sound like a great party anyway. A quite unique event hat only […]

I didn’t know that @locust. The Polyglot Hivemind of the Afterword strikes again. Like @duco01, I’d always thought they were The Vultures. Thank goodness we have you toget us back on track. Just to confuse […]

Thanks for such a comprehensive and interesting comment @Mousey. I can really understand your mixed feelings about a party like that. Being a very shy, quiet, reclusive wee beastie, I don’t think i would enjoy […]

You certainly know how to get us interested @deramdaze. The best was ‘Harlem River Drive’ (71), a kinda cross between Astral Weeks and What’s Going On. It’s Puerto Rican and the CIA hated it. How apt, contemp […]

One for all the Swedish speakers, This one really cracks me up…. And finally a Swedish techno-pop cover of Mozza……

Kid Creole and the Coconuts paying ten of their best songs would suit me very well too, @Locust. Endicott would be on my list I agree with you too about how some songs ideally have to be performed by the original […]

Here’s Laura… And now Michael Marra. The anecdote before the song is hilarious and very moving Now it’s time for you all to treat us to your favourite songs. God only knows…. There must be many […]

I am another big fan of Garmarna, Retro, and was lucky enough to see them live several times. Singer Emma Härdelin went on to sing with another more folky, low-key band, Triakel. Well worth exploring.. Many […]

Wow. He certainly is. A real find, pencilsqueezer Thanks for putting him on our map.

How did you discover Disstantes ? Certainly not a stadium act quite yet but rather interesting.

Yes indeed. Thanks a lot @sewer-robot– I’m really looking forward to this. That’s my January listening sorted. And of course thanks a lot to you too @paul-hewstone for all your hard work.

I think you are really onto something here @thecheshirecat. It seems very unlikely to me that I should discover favourite new music, the year that it was recorded. Here are two examples of new favourites that i […]

What a superb choice @salwarpe. Below the Bassline was the soundtrack of the 90s for me, I was even lucky enough to be in London when Ernest played the Jazz Cafe in Camden, His wonderfully mellifluous guitar […]

What a superb choice @salwarpe. Below the Bassline was the soundtrack of the 90s for me, I was even lucky enough to be in London when Ernest played the Jazz Cafe in Camden, His wonderfully mellifluous guitar […]

I am fascinated by the thought of you driving around your home town in England listening to the very other-worldly, hypnotic sounds of The Necks, @tiggerlion. That must be quite a contrast, But imagine […]

I saw them at Roskilde in 2024 and they really rocked the house, @Locust. The line up seems to be rather flexible but this doesn’t seem to effect the quality. And they dress to impress. No jeans and T Shirts […]

Great anecdote @el-hombre-malo. Now I am even more baffled. How could someone who was such a complete a-hole write such beautiful songs? That reminds me of a wonderful scene in Hardy’s JUDE THE OBSCURE, where […]

Going slightly off-piste, I stumbled across another great vedette from Mali, KANDJA KOUYATE. Love the review on the AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA site. It’s far out, man. This cassette is perfect in almost every […]

You are darn right there, @JuniorWells. Looking back on it today, I understand that the trio was a real Malian supergroup. Bamako’s answer to Cream. I must now explore Fanta Damba’s eponymous album on the […]