What should be happening is moves to expel the USA from NATO and a demand for the closure of all US military bases in the rest of NATO. Or perhaps the dissolution of NATO and it’s replacement with a purely […]

Saw The Hamsters twice and that was enough for me. Entertaining the first time but a bit of a bore when repeated, especially as the set they played was pretty much the same.

Trump covered his arse against accusations of outright incitement in that long speech. The BBC edit uncovered his arse.

Trump cannot bring his case in the UK, where it could indeed have been more successful, because the allowable time to do so has expired. 2 years is the maximum allowable time between the offence and taking […]

One of my favourite discoveries of 2025 was “Anthology: The definitive Collection” by Charlie Shavers, featuring many tracks with the marvellous Maxine Sullivan singing. Another was this year’s “Calling You Home”, […]

Pretty much all of the noted Ska musicians of the ’60s were jazzers. Making quality dance music to earn a living, because there was no living to be made playing jazz in Jamaica back then.

I can’t recall the name of the band now but there was a very competent rock guitar covers band that completely dominated the scene here some years back*. They played everywhere and seemed to be constantly on the […]

There seem to be two (at least) types of legacy artists. There are the Performers, who cannot envisage life without the excitement and pleasure of playing to an audience. They will carry on until they drop or […]

Even Frank Zappa was wont to play the “My Sharona” riff.

Tribute Bands specialise in playing from a particular artist or band’s repertoire. A Covers Band plays from several different artists repertoire, or possibly from a particular decade or musical genre.

Saw 2026 in with mature cheddar & spring onion crisps, dry-roasted peanuts, John Crabbie single malt whisky and Brewdog Lost Lager. All to a soundtrack of Bill Frisell’s 2-hour Blue Note playlist on Qobuz. Lots […]

He certainly doesn’t look as old as he must actually be. That’s pretty impressive. Give the bass player some lead boots.

Something unconvincing about the whole Mod Revival thing, as far as I was concerned. Having been around in the mid-sixties and briefly worn a parka and some Ben Shermans, it didn’t rekindle any memories or do […]

What IS the ugliest part of your body?

Yes. Who DID put the Ram in the Rama-Lama-Ding-Dong?

Answer: (Recycle) Bins was just now.

Currently playing The Necks “Disquiet”. Ghost Net is a beast of a track.

It’s both the streaming platforms and the labels. And the punters too. Streaming doesn’t pay remotely near what artists or writers get for radio play or movie/television use. Even the good ones like Qobuz. But […]

I discovered recently that my Spotify playlists could be migrated to Qobuz. A laborious process, mind, using a 3rd-party online app, one playlist at a time. A few tracks here and there were lost because they […]

MediaMonkey has a extremely good tag editor onboard, tagging to the ID3v2 standard. It can also convert tags of the older ID3v1 standard, if necessary. On the Tools menu there’s Auto-Tag from Web (if you can find […]