Rush – Exit stage left – Closer to the Heart recorded at Glasgow Apollo. Also The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball.

£23K now. It must be tempting just to sit and watch the total tick upwards, Colin!

Over £10K now! I’m in – thought I’d better make a move before it’s sold out!

Good article. Hoping for a good launch on Monday. We live in a world filled with trivia and trivial ‘celebrities’, where artists of substance like Dick Gaughan and – to take a very different example – Mike […]

Bathgate. It’s in a Proclaimers song. Nearly spat out my tea when I heard it on The Tube.

It also has an album named after it. By David Boulter. I like it.

I’ll put it in my calendar!

Is this tomorrow?

I managed to get tickets for the Weedge. Watched their mad, marvellous video compilation DVD in celebration.

You’re determined to land me in penury, Colin. Not complaining.

I absolutely love REM – the BBC box has been getting a lot of plays for the last few months, as has the Up re-issue. Like many above, I’m (relatively) not mad keen on Monster, though WTF Kenneth and Crush with […]

Quite probably. It’s hard to see what else Putin could wish for from his asset.

Take my wallet, basically.

I’m beginning to get genuinely worried now. It’s all very well laughing at the delusional people who have elected someone with the same delusional mindset. But you know who doesn’t share that delusional mindset? […]

Muddy Waters, Complete Chess Masters vol. 2 (1952-1958).

I hadn’t realised it was so big! I expected a compact Dylan live box, not a big 12 inch book. Even better value.

Now that is a bargain.

So they’ve come for the disabled now? Fairly getting through the list quick.

That amount of material suggests a book format, rather than the clamshell, IMO.

Yep. Every time I think that he can sink no lower, he proves me wrong.