True dat. The gigs thing. I went to see Primal Scream last night — driving, sober as a judge — and God I hated my fellow gig-goers, most of whom it seemed were Stone Island types constantly trying to start up a […]

It’s probably a coincidence, but both times I’ve been in Forever Records in Nottingham I’ve come away with something highly prized (Harnessed the Storm by Drexciya on the first occasion, Third by Portishead on the […]

My two favourite live Fall albums are 1.) Live to Air in Melbourne ’82. You can really feel the push and pull between him and Marc Riley on this gig. Not only is it a great performance. It’s also a radio broadcast […]

What’s most puzzling is that apart from ‘those bits’, it plays out like a madcap road trip movie. I’m listening to a podcast now where they describe it as being like a Sandra Bullock rom-com that ends in 9/11. (I […]

I saw Soldier Blue for the first time the other night. Just brilliant, but also BLOODY HELL. Anybody seen?

Good shout(s)

Yeah, but I’m a simple soul and easily overwhelmed.

What do you think of as their best, out of interest?

My box has yet to arrive but I did all the collecting of the Thursday freebies*, plus I’ve got the yellow sampler vinyl *and* the signed CD.

In other words, I got a bit carried away (and/or drunk).

Still, […]

Outside of the ones above I’d mention The Big Silence, a tremendously bleak snowbound western starring Klaus Kinski. Eastwood ripped it off for Joe Kidd, but The Big Silence is way, way better.

Special mention […]

I liked NME and Select but the mag which best reflected my listening was Jockey Slut. Its tagline was ‘disco pogo for punks in pumps’, which was pretty much me at the time.

I never got into the print version […]

My son’s all like, ‘There’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure.’ And while I agree that a good song is a good song regardless, he wasn’t even a twinkle in my eye when most of the guilty pleasure songs were […]

The easy/lazy of doing it would be to group-select a bunch of albums, ‘get info’ and then tick the compilation box.

Yep. This. Also, I see it as an index of my physical collection (and by extension my whole life, musically speaking). Like if somebody asks me my favourite albums of 1982, I don’t sit there with my pen in my […]

At the weekend I found the 12″ of Equitoreal by Dubtribe Sound System in a record shop. I was very excited by this because up till then I’d only ever had it as part of a Jon Carter mix on CD, and the ‘full-length […]

What it is, you have to take all your old iTunes folders out of the new Music folder, put them somewhere out of the way and then fire up Music. It’ll take a while at first but then settles down and should be okay […]

Yeah, I have. I spent a few days in spinning-ball hell but eventually found — what do they call it? — a ‘workaround’ so that at least the fucking thing would fire up and it’s mainly okay now, although I have […]

If you think that’s odd, last year they occupied the offices of Greenpeace on the grounds that Greenpeace was not taking enough direct action. (Presumably they forgot about the Greenpeace activists that were […]

I stond carrected.

Years from now, as the planet is burning to a crisp, we’ll learn that this is the work of MI5 agents who infiltrated ER with the express purpose of destabilising the campaign.

Seems like an abject lesson in how not to run a campaign to me. The one issue upon which we’re all broadly agreed, they’ve managed to be incredibly divisive.