I was at the Genesis one in 1978. Loved it – it was the first gig I’d been to. I have vague memories of Devo, Tom Petty and Jefferson Starship. Roy Harper came on while Genesis. waited for it to get dark enough […]

Agreed re Piranesi – it’s fab. And recommend persevering with Luckenbooth.

Well, here we need to delve into the complexities of the Scottish voting system. In theory it’s simple – FPTP contests as with Westminster, with proportionality being corrected by the award of MSPs from a party […]

You listened to Arc more than once?

And ‘Petri’? Sounds like a for’ner.

Edit: I *knew* it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Richard_Petri

I think she cleverly majored on the conspiracy aspect. I don’t think there was a conspiracy to jail Salmond – why would they? IMO, all the lies stem from a cack-handed attempt to help him out.

One of the mysteries of the current age is the uncritical view of Sturgeon in some Southern quarters. She’s a nationalist. She’s a slightly more competent one that Johnson. That allows her to paper over the botch […]

The issue is not the charges made against Salmond, or even whether he is a very nice person.

The issue is now whether Nicola Sturgeon lied to Parliament. The main SNP defence would seem to be “It doesn’t matter […]

I recommend Frank Quitely’s The Greens, a wonderful, surreal parody.

She succeeds in meeting the very low bar of being better than Boris Johnson.

AstraZeneca yesterday. Started to feel unwell during the night – temperature was 38.7 this morning. Feeling a bit brighter now though. I suspect the reaction might be partly due to having had covid infection last month.

It’s certainly a different sort of album from the Trilogy that preceded it. There’s a few songs I like though – Flyingdale Flyer, for one. I’m in, basically – but not as in as I’ll be for BatB next year (even […]

Dazzling. The classic BBC narrator voice gives it a veneer of respectability it doesn’t always deserve, however it is thought-provoking and entertaining. Good on explaining how we got into this mess, short on […]

Belay that pipe – it does indeed! now ordered through Burning Shed.

Link for those that need it: http://jethrotull.com/jethro-tull-a-40th-anniversary-edition/

Ooh. Any link to further gen? I’m wondering (aloud) if it will contain the Slipstream video.

Other reissue plans, you say?

I realised that Robert Calvert’s interludes sound exactly like Alan Rickman’s Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films. And now I can’t un-realise it. Space Ritual is ruined for me.

Of course, no-one could object to devolution for England or the English regions. However, trying to make that a function of the UK parliament at Westminster was a crass mistake.

Cameron was playing to the […]

Presumably, only a worry (and a hypothetical one at that, given what’s written above) if someone is so determined to outbid you that they’re prepared to bid large amounts for the CD (or whatever)?

I hadn’t come across this vid for the marvellous Sons and Daughters before. Dance me in: