Best of luck for the chemo today, and put me down for a signed copy of the book!

Having seen this and heard the WIYE podcast, I may well investigate. FWIW I’ve just finished his biography of John Entwistle; having put it down halfway through a few years ago, I picked it up again. The […]

As hard as it is to read these, they are absolutely riveting – and Janet is amazing.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, though it was heading towards getting mawkish for the final number. Also, making the theatre audience a mixture of muppets and humans was weirdly disconcerting. But Sabrina Carpenter was […]

Wishing you all the best Niall, and with a writer of your ability I’m looking forward to the rest of the diary. Maybe a celebratory curry with the Thames Valley massive at an appropriate time.

Went to see “Becoming Victoria Wood” yesterday at the Warwick Arts Centre – their cinema seats are something else, the most comfortable and roomy I’ve had for many years. Put Del Amitri on in the car on the way […]

I’m with Freddy on this. Strange Times was their peak.

La Villa Strangiato were very good when I saw them. Looks like they have some gigs this year, including Rushfest (Glasgow – Moving Pictures too, apparently) in May.

This was the feeling chez Malc too: still enjoyable but there some irritation (especially from the youngsters) that the Duffer Brothers’ promises to tie up loose ends and fill in plot holes went unfulfilled. Final […]

Behind Closed Doors is a terrific album, the first side in particular.

Quite a few on my list are ones that I’ve only just got round to listening to, but never mind: 1 Half Man Half Biscuit – All Asimov And No Fresh Air 2 Steven Wilson – The Overview 3 The Lottery Winners – K […]

Similar problem here…the choral society I’m in is performing Josef Rheinberger’s “The Star of Bethlehem” on Saturday, so it’s been on heavy rotation while I’ve been trying to learn it and now Spotify is […]

Useful thread on the tour, including guests: https://www.reddit.com/r/insideno9/comments/1n94z8t/stagefright_tour_discussion_thread/

So, funny story…having enjoyed the London show so much, we really fancied going again – and this time Mrs Malc wanted to go, despite having found the Sphinx episode a bit much. Booked tickets for the Milton […]

I’ve always thought the same of Elevator Up from Out-of-State Plates. B-side to Stacy’s Mom so also from the WIM era.

On BlueSky: “Rush is reuniting with a woman as the drummer and I think it’s very sweet that Rush fans will get to see a woman once before they die”

I was there too, up top in the gallery – fortunately the view was not as vertiginous as I’d feared. Amazingly it was my first visit to the RAH, and I was amused to find a little monument to Roger Daltrey in the […]

Almost…they left out the bit I had in mind. Immediately after that clip (according to the excellent Hacker diaries), Frank asks whether the other EEC countries would oppose the Europass. Humphrey’s reply is “the […]

Naturally, Yes Minister had something to say on ID cards (“only the British will resent it”). Sadly I couldn’t find a clip of it on YT.