This was my first introduction to Satie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMExsq416U

If we’re allowing only one masterpiece from the later part of his career, I think it’s The Drift, but I like Tilt a lot, and it’s more accessible than The Drift which you really have to be in the mood to listen […]

There’s a 46 minute live version of this on their Focus Live 1971-1975 album…

I must check out the album, as it contains this gem, about as radio-friendly a record you could make in the early-to-mid 70s:

I saw this back at the Belfast Film Festival last year. I thought, after a great first 50 minutes or so, it fell off a cliff, the Director seemingly desperate to shock and surprise at the expense of what could […]

It’s not bad. Taylor’s on his usual sparkling form (as is Al) but there’s something where, for me at least, David’s chat doesn’t carry the quality (and humour) of his writing. I’ve heard the “aiming to ramp […]

It’s a very disappointing listen, smacks of a “will this do?” mentality, to which the answer from me is, no it will not. And yet you read some of the comments on the Patreon page where it’s accepted as some sort […]

Not in Belfast where I live he’s not!

A grinch writes: “Much as I love it and savour every episode, $60* a year on Patreon as a subscriber is too much for this year’s one podcast and a few bonus things (one of the bonus things was the live episode, […]

If we’re talking great “Woo’s” in music, this is the best I’ve ever heard – at 1:44, but needs to be heard in the context of the whole track:

Isaac Hayes doing whatever he does with his keyboard at 15:27 on his monumental version of “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” off ‘”Hot Buttered Soul” – runs to just about 5 seconds too.

Prefab Sprout Popular: Steve McQueen Connoisseur: Jordan: The Comeback The Associates Popular: Sulk Connoisseur: The Affectionate Punch Scott Walker Popular: Scott 4 Connoisseur: Scott 3

As someone who normally steers well away from acoustic “reimaginings”, Paddy McAloon’s 2007 re-recordings of (most of) Steve McQueen for the anniversary edition were an absolute pleasure. A few of them I actually […]

12″.

I adore this song – shades of Tom Waits in his Asylum years…

I do think this is rather lovely though…

The world doesn’t consist purely of the UK & US – if you look at their worldwide sales at some point between What’s The Story and Be Here Now, there’s a genuine case to make that they were the biggest band in th […]

There are a couple of clips on YouTube, including this one.

Have to be honest, I got bored with NY half a dozen songs in and switched over to Charli XCX, who is fantastic! No pretence of a band playing, just her and some brilliant songs.

Never cared for Anohni either, but was surprisingly impressed with the two tracks I caught last night on the catch-up show. Both were first released about 10 years ago though…