Well. I certainly wouldn’t have predicted Arya getting her kit off. Good for her though.

“the last great Tull record” – they should make that the title of the any Broadsword and the Beast boxset.

Ha ha thanks. You’ll always be my first, Steve.

I don’t think I’ve ever been wished a happy Easter. I’m only now beginning to realise that I am a social pariah, shunned by my fellow man.

Her rendition of Diamonds and Rust in Renaldo & Clara is actually rather good (and a brave/interesting choice). Check it out – you may be pleasantly surprised.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll probably buy it, despite having much of it on boots from my Cdr trading days. However it does speak of a shift in perception about what is marketable, does it not?

I’ll just note that there has already been a bootleg series release of the Rolling Thunder tour (vol. 5, I think?). Has someone in marketing realised that we will, in fact, buy any old shit in a nice box?

Actually, having thought, I’d be sad about the Scottish Parliament, Holyrood House and Edinburgh Castle. Maybe Leith Library. Not as much as Notre Dame though.

I don’t need it. I do love it though – it’s the most entertaining thing on TV. I think that they alternate “setting up the pieces on the board” episodes with more, um, action oriented ones. This weeks’ was one of […]

I do feel sad – it’s a building I’ve visited several times and has many memories attached. I’m not sure there’s many Scottish ones I’d feel the same way about though.

Elvis Costello at Glastonbury in 1987. Played a fantastic acoustic set, to great acclaim. Then came back for an encore – which was an entire set with the Attractions.

This is ace!

And no Anna Calvi _ what were we thinking?

Her book is an interesting read, isn’t it? It was possibly your recommendation, come to think of it.

If nothing else, this thread is an excuse to post this evergreen. This is not the greatest song in the world – but it *is* a tribute to it:

Mesmeric. I’m amazed that’s even a thing though.

And just so it’s not all winsome country-folk round these parts, here’s the marvellous Tracey Thorn with Oh, the Divorces!:

And indeed Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator):

No Laura Cantrell? Let’s put that right, right now, with Two Seconds:

To cut right to the important stuff, sorry that you find yourself strapped in to the cancer rollercoaster. All the best with it all.