I knew nothing of Astral Weeks until years after it’s release and reputation had grown, and I think I approached it with reverence from the beginning.
Even so, it’s not difficult to imagine the affect it must have […]

Plainly it’s the EU that will worry about the border with their need to “protect the internal market” seemingly outweighing peace in Ireland.

It seems that in order to ‘retain market access’ there are too many willing to throw the country under a bus, pursuing a course in which, at best is a promise to years of division.
There is nothing positive […]

I’ve never heard those tracks. Walk on By came as a bonus 7′ single with, I think Mean to Me on the B side. In white vinyl too!

I started to listen to TMS after the early reports that we were thrashing the Aussies. I had to walk away though, after Smith started to become “expansive”.

In the Shadows is memorably awful, or awfully memorable. I was watching Youtubers sing Don’t Bring Harry when it finally hit me.

That’s what Trump would say about his wall.

All the ancient Vespas have found their true purpose, negotiating the narrow backstreets of the crowded commercial district of Bangkok.

It’s my OCD. I always enjoyed the ritual of drawing the record from the outer sleeve, always with the inner sleeve opening at the top. And if anyone put one back with the sleeve openings in line
I’d go nuts.

I knew I had one EC record and now I remember, Armed Forces. The vinyl record came in a ludicrous sleeve, which must have scared buyers away. Still, Two Little Hitlers and Accidents Will Happen were good.

They were The class act of the punk era imo, and I look with some disdain at all the nominations for Never Mind the Bollocks!

Mind the gaps
68 – Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
70 – Van Morrison – Moondance
71 – Carole King – Tapestry
72 – Thin Lizzy – Shades of a Blue Orphanage
73 – Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
74 – ELO – […]

Bound to have acquired a lot more, just after the intervention of Special Place in Hell Donald.

I thought it maybe a compilation. Out of the Blue is patchy, a double with a lot of filler. Eldorado is the unknown gem.

As a ‘fairly’ big fan of ELO in the seventies, I’ve no recollection of Out of Time.

Cricket at it’s finest. Such a close contest and dramatic ending only marred by a timing clash with the equally unbelievable Wimbledon Final. I was pacing between two tellys. Thanks also to Junior, for having the […]

I would argue otherwise. Streisand has a fantastic voice and mass appeal; Ferry, I don’t even like his voice.

There’s an early Thin Lizzy song “Remembering” which ends rather badly. I kept hoping they’d go back later and put it right.

More Kyrgios than Federer

In Years and Years the BBC lost it’s Charter, some light relief amongst all that misery.