I completely neglected to mention what I read during November. A couple of enjoyable physical book re-reads, i.e. Iain M. Banks’ “Look To Windward”, prompted by a recent mention of it in this blorum, and Michael […]

A big boy did it and ran away.

Zappa accepted Havel’s invitation to be Czechoslovakia’s official trade representative to the USA. The US State Department made it plain that if they wanted any trade at all with the USA, Zappa could not be their […]

The third time I’ve seen them and they just get better and better. The saxophonist Ollie Weston has borrowed a bass clarinet from someone and he used it to good effect on a couple of the songs. Bass clarinet is […]

Yet another long list of albums played. A Gong binge – Paris-Bataclan Live 1973, Roanne-Club Arc En Ciel Live 1973, BBC Radio 1 Sessions + Edinburgh Live 1973, You (1974), Shamal (1976) The Jazz Composers […]

Three separate articles about Shane on the BBC News website today.

Alternatively …

More like MACC Codgers, sadly.

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I read his book “Around Ireland With A Fridge” some years ago after someone whose taste I thought was good recommended it. I thought it was complete shite and I struggled to finish it. My attitude to Hawks has […]

It’s a bin-it or keep-it record. Probably thousands of copies deep in landfill, with covers slowly decomposing. I can imagine today’s New Young Hipsters* playing it to each other for shits & giggles. *Possibly […]

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Mine will probably say “Who the **** is this person?” Not been a Spotify user for about 2 years.

Meanwhile, Sun Ra Arkestra Leader Marshall Allen is currently still going strong (still blowing his alto sax) at 99 years of age. And still a smoker.

As it happens, I spent a couple of hours the other day, removing some of the stoopid genre categories from my digitised music library. Still loads more to go. I’m tempted to just have four categories in future. […]

Probably demonstrate it too, given the opportunity.

I was not so underwhelmed that I didn’t buy the album when it came out. I thought the album was great then and a few years ago, having not listened to it in years, I bought a new 2011 remaster copy on CD. It […]

Is there some kind of AW formula in play here? With anything from TV-land that gets written about here, we first get the gushing praise, then we get a vehement dissenter or two, followed by point-by-point […]

Saw it performed at a free Hyde Park concert in July 1970, a few months before the album was released. Accompanied by a brass band and choir. It was a little bit underwhelming, I seem to recall. I was, of course, very stoned.