We have crows nesting in a couple of ash trees behind us – about 6 nests in total. I quite enjoy them and they’re fascinating to watch, but the other nearby residents in the area are not impressed. In fairness, […]

I caught Motherland while I was waiting for No. 9 and thought it was excellent – I think it’s on Netflix now, so I’ll try to catch up with it – though there’s a recurring pattern of BBC shows being dropped from […]

I have English Electric and I quite like it – what should I purchase next?

Days Without End is in among the pile of books I’ve got at home – I might move it up towards the top…

Doing well, Hombre – I hope you are also. Here in Ireland we are a few weeks (or more) behind the UK in administering vaccinations, but this week I was eligible to register for my first one – so probably during […]

Yes, I got an email from them re the compilation – should be good…

Thanks Jay, but it didnt entice me to explore further. Maybe it will click with me some day…
I just remembered – another one I have is a Gordon Lightfoot collection. The well-known songs are fine – If you could […]

I’m sure there are some on here that will disagree but the only Boz Scaggs album I have is the ‘My Time’ anthology and I’m not in any hurry to buy anything else by him.

I saw this tweet last night – an astonishing photo and I like the observation about all of humanity…

“I’ve got the world in my window.”

Michael Collins snapped this photo of the lunar module returning to the command module after landing on the Moon. With the Earth in the background, all of humanity is in this photograph, save Collins himself. pic.twitter.com/5StJrvzB0T

— NASA Moon (@NASAMoon) April 28, 2021

Nighthawks was a strange concept. A friend and myself went to it one night – just walked into RTE and onto the set. A couple of beers and a quick chat with Shay – not on air, thankfully. I wish we’d had more […]

Shay Healy, broadcaster, presenter, interviewer, songwriter, jack of all trades in the entertainment industry. Probably best known for writing ‘What’s Another Year?’ that won the Eurovision SC. for Johnny Logan. […]

Sorry to hear that, Mr.B.

Very succinctly put, Mike.

It occurred to me when we were discussing best albums earlier this year that if I were to list my top 50 or top 100, RP’s 21st century albums would most likely appear before any LZ albums – and I was a huge Zep […]

There’s no doubt that Brexit has accelerated the discussion about reunification. It’s a generation or two too early in my opinion. I don’t think there’s an appetite for it among the population at large.

Two solos from Tim Reynolds playing with Dave Matthews. Two Covers. Fairly recent – this century anyway. Starting around 2.45 in both instances…

Down By The River…

And Daniel Lanois’ ‘The Maker’ – this was […]

I’m a fan as well, Jay, trying to get the rest of the family to watch it with no success unfortunately. I’m hoping this latest series will appear on Netflix fairly soon. I’m sure I could have watched it on ITV but […]

i don’t have it to hand, but I seem to remember that etched into the runoff groove of ‘Viva Dead Ponies’ by The Fatima Mansions is the legend “The real name of this album is ‘Bugs Fucking Bunny’ “

I’m with LoW on this – certainly one of the best…