I know objectively it’s not great but I had it on a cassette in my first car – I loved all the songs and knew them by heart. It still takes me back to that time. (And this was the first version of God Only Knows t […]

1. Fish fingers and ketchup 2. A scratched-beyond-listenable LP of wish You Were Here 3. Our cat when he’s in one of his wild moods 4. Apples. 5. Yes members of Fairport Convention at our local theatre in 1 […]

Jim Moray later this month. In October, The Australian Pink Floyd Show (Wish You Were Here 50th anniversary) and then ABC/Anne Dudley doing Lexicon of Love. Hopefully a few other things in between!

1. Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks – True 2. Saint Etienne – The Night 3. Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless 4. The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World 5. Public Service Broadcasting – The Last Flight 6. John Grant – The Art […]

It is last year’s song!

Yes! But the thinner the slice, the better.

It’s been that kind of year, doing this list has made me realise that, which is great.

1. Bruce Cockburn – O Sun O Moon 2. Bob Dylan – Shadow Kingdom 3. Lloyd Cole – On Pain 4. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Bauhaus Staircase 5. Trevor Rabin – Rio 6. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s V […]

Thanks for the clips, we love the Exmoor choir’s version of Rolling Downwards (they are singing that in Porlock which is one of our favourite places, we were there for a week in October). And yes, I totally a […]

Thanks for posting the video, yes that’s us! It’s a good example because that’s a carol which originated from the village of Medstead in Hampshire, and is one of our favourites to sing. I think our personal favou […]

Yes, lots – Mrs L and I sing in Winchester Community Choir, we had our Christmas concert a couple of weeks ago, we also sang at the Christmas market. The choir mostly does traditional songs from Hampshire and the […]

I’ve just listened to the bagpipe guitars section in part 2 on headphones and can definitely hear that strange bass part. I’m sure it’s not supposed to be there, as you say it’s completely out of time and just so […]

I’ve just listened to this section on headphones and can definitely hear that strange bass part. I’m sure it’s not supposed to be there, as you say it’s completely out of time and just sounds like noodling that wa […]

My gig of the year was Bob Dylan in Bournemouth last month. It was the first time I’ve seen him live, several times in the past I’ve almost gone but was worried I’d get him on an off night. I loved Rough and Rowdy […]

I enjoyed your review, I think I would have loved the Ommadawn and Hergest Ridge bits the most. I listened to those tracks on the Royal Phil 50 album yesterday and thought they sounded great, you’d never know it w […]

I don’t think it was so much the job itself, more the challenges of living/working in London on a very low salary, plus I remember him saying how it would take years to progress and that most of the job involved […]

I found this a fascinating read. In the late 1980s I had an unrealistic aim to get a job working in a recording studio. I saw an ad for a tape operator job (£9,000 per year!) at Odyssey Studios and got called in […]

I was a teenager when Tonight came out and Let’s Dance was the only Bowie music I’d previously heard. I had Tonight on cassette and probably the notes on the inlay were too small to read, or I didn’t bother, […]

That was my summer album this year, lots of warm evenings watering the garden and listening to Laura Mvula on headphones

Eleventh hour as usual, but here’s my list …

1. Steven Wilson – The Future Bites
2. Martyn Joseph – 1960
3. Jon Boden – Last Mile Home
4. Laura Mvula – Pink Noise
5. Abba – Voyage
6. John Grant – Boy From […]