Here’s another weird fact. Hot water and cold water sound different when poured and most people can tell the difference between them just by listening:

That is indeed a cracker. And I see they’re on tour at the moment!

I hope this counts, because the whole album is awesome:

I think ELO probably count as power pop don’t they?

If so, then I present this, which is a pretty perfect ELO song except that it’s written and performed by David Myhr:

His stuff when he’s not channelling […]

Just as I suspected.

Nobody here actually believed it, did they?

It’s not the first time I’ve heard about it either – that doesn’t change my scepticism about this particular email.

A bit more of Mick Ronson’s contribution would be great to see.

Exactly – it looks like anyone could have emailed that to the Council.

I suspect Sasha Baron-Cohen.

Earl Slick doesn’t play on the Nassau live album – it’s Stacey Heydon: a Canadian but a guitarist nonetheless.

I’m enjoying this one quite a bit, which is just as well as I’m going to see them live next week, at the Lexington of all places.

No doubt you are both right and I’m just complaining because for once it’s a box set by a band I’m actually interested in.

Anyway, to make up for my grumbling here’s the singer and drummer from Dawes doing a […]

It’s “we skipped the light fandango”.

I, too, am a big Procol Harum fan. Mainly it’s because they were the first live band I ever saw (well, apart from the support band, who were Be Bop Deluxe) and I’ve had a […]

That was Sleepify by Vulfpeck, who far from being a Nordic metal band are an American funk band – rather good too. Here they are a few months ago in Dublin – not often you hear an entire audience singing a bass solo!

Here’s another McDonald cover. Jo Harman doing “I Can Let Go Now”

As with so many things, Guy Stevens was responsible.

You spelled “Procol” wrong.

Don’t worry – you weren’t the first and you won’t be the last.

Another band you may want to check out is the aforesaid Don Breithaupt’s band Monkey House – in particular their last album “Left”. It has contributions from Steely Dan veterans Michael Leonhart, Elliott Randall, […]

I absolutely loved this book. Chris writes beautifully and there were several places in the book where I just (inwardly) gasped with admiration and envy at his turn of phrase – I guess not much of a surprise for […]

It’s a weird paradox of the so-called “information age” that the information about gigs which used to be incredibly easy to find (buy Time Out and it listed just about everything) is now so much harder. There is […]