Have you seen “Strange Darling” yet? It’s terrific, but you’re better seeing it without any prior knowledge of the story, so I’ll leave it there. The soundtrack is by someone I’d never heard of before call […]

It’s a fantastic doc – I went twice when it was on at my local.

I have El Sur which is pretty good (Victor Erice made The Spirit Of The Beehive also), and Blancanieves which is just wonderful. Drew a blank on the rest of them.

Looks like all seven seasons are on 4.

Sunchyme is a great tune. I have fond memories of managing to get about 350 white label 12” of it before release and selling them all in HMV in Hull (where I was Assistant Manager) before it’s official release at […]

“The range. He’s got such range…It’s f*ckin’ Pauline, the whole lot. Pauline…Pauline, Pauline, Pauline, Pauline”. https://podca […]

Good to see most of the hits, but sadly no Weekend In New England. Always a huge live act, and I remember the BBC used to have his shows on quite often in the late 70s and 80s.

Always loved this, written for American Gigolo:

Great piece here by Gillian Reynolds.

Delighted to see this has just reached it’s target of £40k.

Great review Mosely, and totally agree that Chic felt a bit overlooked in an otherwise excellent series. I presume the “fair right” exemptions to use copyrighted clips and music that illustrate a documentary sto […]

The first gig I ever went to, 1974 I think, I must have been 7, was Mud at the Ulster Hall. I had several of their singles and was a fan, so my Mum and Dad took me. Was a good night.

It’s up on the top floor, something of an afterthought in a shop that’s an absolute travesty of the brand. Fortunately the other stores don’t seem to have gone the same way, though high margin merch is a bigge […]

I bought Arctic Monkeys, Jessie Ware, Loyle Carner and Olivia Dean, and like them all. Arctic Monkeys are a very different band now from what they were and haven’t taken everyone along on that journey with them, b […]

24 years? Did they have some time off, because I saw them at the Adelphi in 1997 when I lived in Hull and they were still just called Fonda, so that’s at least 26 years. One of the last gigs I went to in Hull b […]

There’s an argument that Twin Peaks: The Return is really a very long film. It was shot as a piece, all directed by one person (unlike most TV series), and then chopped up into episodes. It’s a magnificent ach […]

One Day I’m Going To Soar is probably my favourite album of the 21st Century. I came to Dexys late, having been a bit indifferent to the early stuff, but loved DSMD, and later appreciated the first two. I agree w […]

I watched all of season 4 this weekend, having avoided spoilers bar one major one (thanks Bret Easton Ellis), and up early this morning for the finale, which despite a few technical hitches (thanks NOWTV – why do […]

New Order’s Your Silent Face spends 3 1/2 verses being, well, lyrical before finally giving up at the end: The sign that leads the way The path we can not take You’ve caught me at a bad time So, why don’t you piss off?