I’ve now lived with this for a week and I think I can get past the loud production to see that it’s a consistently excellent set of Stones songs. By the imperfect metric of how many songs I’m likely to add to my […]

Erm, OK. But why is there a field that says …. Add a Link to website, news article, tweet etc that you want to share Should it also read ‘but not a YouTube link’’?

Thanks for that, and I totally get the comparison with jazz players. It’s noticeable whenever I see a new band these days that the drummers are always perfectly on the beat. It misses a certain looseness, which i […]

I think they’re also made for radio and streaming. A lot of people listen in mono on smart speaker these days so the production is ultra-compressed.

Without wishing to be sacrilegious, I’m confused about Charlie’s contributions over the years. I can detect a certain swing, and his drums are always mic-ed up beautifully, but in all honesty I can’t tell a […]

I need to pick your brain, Pawsforthought, about what it was like in your “time”. Were the Long Bar and Disco Bar still intact? I heard Maisie’s had become a real ale bar. And did the Gannochy still host rathr cheesy discos?

Thank you. I wish there was space for some more. I actually quite like the Iggy Pop ones.

Was at Stirling 1989-1993. Heady days: the Shamen bankrupting the student union, the Orb elected as honorary president, Van Morrison randomly walking round the campus one afternoon.

When I was putting bands on at Stirling University, we were offered Nirvana for £350 just before Nevermind came out. I couldn’t book them because the Christian Union were using the venue for a disco.

Easy … Van Morrison Neil Young Teenage Fanclub

Hmmm. Music like this has ben around for ever. I don’t get how all it took to get a wider audience was the band dressing up in polka dot Mr Men costumes.

I’m quite partial to Gabrielle Lazure – 28 monthly listeners on Spotify!

I’m particularly enjoying the solo work of Pauline Murray with Martin Hannet’s band the Invisible Girls.

If Tony McCarroll can share a stage with Oasis then surely Hooky and New Order can make up for the day.

For anyone who *is* interested in his personal troubles, this interview from the Independent is a real eye-opener and offered him the chance to tell his side of the story.

The Mail, and other titles’ grievance with the BBC is down to its size and its guaranteed budget from public funding. They feel it shouldn’t be in local radio, mass-market TV, promoting the Proms etc, because […]

Correction. Rather than pressing Sort after Edit, you press something called Smart Reorder. And I lied: you cannot then revert to your original track order without reordering it manually. Glad that the […]