Teddy Edward

@Vincent – I don’t find this ‘people with proper jobs and responsibilities’ line very helpful at all. It’s been used as a way of infantilising the opposition, and seems to imply some kind of hierarchy of human w […]

Stupid bloody jewel case
Man, you been a naughty boy,
You let your face grow long

But I digress. It’s the inequality that gets me. Case in point: the recent Steve Hackett orchestral live CD/DVD. Blu-ray […]

Steve Hackett and Richie Havens. I think Havens toured with Genesis in their early years. Hackett collaborated with Havens on his second, and pretty ace, solo album, Please Don’t Touch.

I’ve ignored solo […]

Topical. Feed The Goat and he will score. Just ask Gary Neville.

What’s a young Bill Bruford doing on that cover? Stealing the show somewhat.

He was good in The Omen, until he lost his head.

I agree. And why can’t Corbyn stay neutral on Brexit? Negotiate some kind of off the shelf Norway deal – which should have been the direction from the start – and then put it to a referendum. Ditch all this year […]

That’s a big-if.

That sounds like a topic for another thread.

Whenever a football commentator mention’s Liverpool’s Jordan Henderson, my brain always responds with:

“The Hendersons will all be there
Late of Pablo Fanques Fair, what a scene”

Thanks. I’ll look out for it.

With Brexit on my mind (Wait! Come back!), I’ve been pondering how quickly societies can collapse into chaos and disorder. Anthropologist Jared Diamond wrote a very good book on the subject – Collapse – but that […]

I haven’t followed Hackett’s solo career that much, and I was mildly dismissive of his Genesis Revisited stuff, without really giving it a chance. A bit of snobbery on my part.

What strikes me watching this […]

I think this version reveals the song’s variety of musical textures like no other. It’s spellbinding.

Logical

Watched this last night, and thought the song sounded as good as it has ever sounded. Steve Hackett will be 70 next year. Still carrying the torch.

I listened to it on the back of the gushing Alex Petridis review. Rarely have I heard a record so monotonously sombre. It’s a mood piece, perhaps similar in tone to something from Bill Fay or Current 93, but Cave […]

It’s not often I say I would have loved to have seen so and so. But I make an exception with Hendrix. Not just the playing, but the grace and poise and humility. He is/was very appealing. I love to watch his […]

Thanks @Kaisfatdad. The country really has been so open and welcoming to my family, and despite the economic problems, the value of community still shines through here. From the age of 5 – 12 my children were […]