Farewell, maestro. Best concert I ever attended was Ennio at the Royal Albert Hall. He played all the hits, but the two that left me literally gasping with emotion were Abolicao (not one of his most well-known, […]

I’ve just bagged The Exphoria Code. Thank you for the tip. Also looking forward to new Daniel Avery, although mine hasn’t reached me yet. Grr!

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I’m a total devotee of the reggae discomix. A discomix in the context of reggae is the original roots tune followed by either a DJ or dub version of the same track. I sort of collect them in a sad kind of […]

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Favourites: Lost In The Moment by Dom & Roland, Angel In Disguise by Leifur James, Illusion of Time by Daniel Avery & Allesandro Cortini, Every Bad by Porridge Radio, I Am Not A Dog On A Chain by Morrissey, […]

Thank you, Bargepole.

Brilliant.

Is that the same backing singer, but doubled up? Or are they twins? Or just two people who look really similar?

Oh… That makes sense! So it helps eliminate that ‘talking over each other’ thing.

What’s the advantage to wearing headphones on a Zoom call? Just so your family can’t hear?

I’m really glad you like it, Paul. I love him best when he goes long-form: America and This Hug/That Hug. But it’s all good, as they say.

Big yes here. I’ve kept up with the Live series but only so the collection’s intact. Quattro is much better.

Thank you, although I wish it hadn’t taken me so long to get my arse in gear and actually *do* something!

I’ve had to write a novel! It was commissioned and begun before the pandemic, and I’d already written a detailed synopsis, so most of the creative heavy lifting was done. But then the pandemic happened, and I […]

Ha ha. You wouldn’t want it any other way, would you?

Thanks so much for these, Marwood. Notes made. One book I forget to mention that I read this month was London Blues by Anthony Frewin, about a Soho porno filmmaker in the 1960s. I got to reading it because GBH […]

I don’t agree that it’s slow, as such, but there are certainly scenes that seem to outstay their welcome. One thing that has also struck me is the montages. They seem to go on FOREVER.

Still brill, though. I […]

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There won’t be a better drum & bass album this year than Dom & Roland’s Lost in the Moment, which somehow manages to liquify the phat and evil sounds of techstep and confirms the fact that Dom is a […]

That figure of 1,141 sounds high to me. And anyway, the overwhelming majority will have been parental abductions. Stranger abductions are very rare. Stranger abductions where the child is not returned rarer still. […]

That’s weird. I’m sure I can remember an episode of the Ralph Bates sitcom Dear John where the DJ only had Green Door by Shakin’ Stevens. He would also occasionally say ‘boogaloo’.